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Yet another former world champion has stepped into the mix for this weekend's sensational 2010 season opener in Bahrain.

This season's opening race of the FIA Formula One season already boasts active drivers' title winners Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso who all posed for photographers in Thursday's FIA press conference.

And shortly afterwards, it emerged that quadruple world champion Alain Prost will act as a steward throughout the race weekend.

The sport's governing body, the FIA, confirmed late last year that permanent stewards in 2010 will "sit with experienced former F1 drivers" in order to "reach decisions very efficiently".

55-year-old Frenchman Prost, the arch-nemesis of 2010 rookie Bruno Senna's late uncle Ayrton, won four titles with 51 wins to his credit in the 80s and 90s, and headed his eponymous team until 2001.

Meanwhile, the World Motor Sport Council met in Bahrain on Thursday, and vowed to take "the most appropriate action" in the wake of USF1's failure to appear for the first race of the season.

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