Steiner fined €7,500 for Sochi stewards outburst

SUZUKA, Japan -- Haas team boss Guenther Steiner has been slapped with a €7,500 fine for comments he made about the stewards after the Russian Grand Prix.

Steiner was summoned to the stewards' office in Japan to discuss the Sochi incident in which he claimed, "if we wouldn't have a stupid idiotic steward, we would be eighth. You know who is the steward. You know him. It is always the same. He just does not get any more intelligent..."

The comment was heard over Kevin Magnussen's team radio and was in response to the stewards handing the Dane a five-second time penalty for running wide at Turn 2 and failing to re-join the track through the bollards, as agreed in the drivers' meeting ahead of…