Raikkonen believes harsher penalties would eliminate "stupidity"

Kimi Raikkonen believes that tougher penalties on big incidents would eliminate the "stupidity" from the F1 drivers.

The FIA have recently tried to be tougher with their stewarding, with new penalty options and the driver penalty points system being introduced.

Stewards have been criticised by some drivers this season for being too strict, but Raikkonen thinks that that perception is incorrect.

"It's so random, that you cannot really say it's very strong," the departing Ferrari driver told Motorsport.com. "If they would be very strong on the right things, then they wouldn't need to do a lot of the other stuff.

"If you are strong enough to stop certain stupidity that is happening, then I think we wouldn't have to have these small penalties here and there, for no big reason. Sometimes you have a good reason, sometimes not - but it is so random.

"I think if you would be really strict in the main points, then the whole thing would change. Then nobody would start doing stupidity."