Max Verstappen is not going to communicate with Sky Sports activities within the F1 paddock, based on a latest report, following the feedback made by Ted Kravitz after the American GP.
Ted Kravitz has developed one thing of a status for his feedback and remarks in opposition to Max Verstappen, with the Sky UK worker making a number of digs in opposition to the Dutchman all through the season.
Kravitz maintains that Lewis Hamilton was “robbed” of the 2021 World Championship, and mentions this on a comparatively frequent foundation in his evaluation and commentary for Sky Sports activities UK.
These have been a few of his feedback at COTA final weekend, the place Kravitz defined what might have been “the script” within the American GP:
“7-time World Champion – I nearly mentioned 8-time World Champion – 7-time World Champion [Lewis Hamilton], goes into the ultimate race attempting to be the best of all time, and win [the] championship.
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“He will get robbed, comes again, his subsequent 12 months’s automotive is garbage… Would not win a race all 12 months after which lastly comes again at a monitor the place he might win the primary race all 12 months.
“Is battling with the identical man [Verstappen] who received the race that he was robbed in [Abu Dhabi] within the earlier 12 months and manages to complete forward of him.
“What a script and a narrative that might have been.”
Totally different media shops and broadcasters have their driver preferences and biases, so it can’t be described as uncommon for Kravitz to have his personal interpretation of occasions.
With that mentioned, it appears Verstappen believes that a few of his statements have crossed the road and is now unwilling to tolerate such feedback or entertain the Sky F1 workforce.
Some have criticised Kravitz’s feedback as being excessively essential and petulant for an expert speaking with such an unlimited viewers.
Verstappen can also be understood to be boycotting the Italian and German branches of Sky F1, as a consequence of his frustrations with Sky UK’s Ted Kravitz.
It stays to be seen how this case will develop and whether or not both celebration will remark or elaborate on this improvement.