Red Bull has reportedly boycotted Sky Sports’ TV coverage over the broadcaster’s treatment of world champion Max Verstappen.
According to the Telegraph in the UK, the powerhouse F1 team is refusing to have Verstappen or teammate Segio Perez, as well as team principle Christian Horner, interviewed in response to pit lane reporter Ted Kravitz declaring Lewis Hamilton’s was “robbed” in last year’s controversial championship decider.
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The shock move follows comments Kravitz made in his ‘Ted’s Notebook’ segment from the United States Grand Prix in which he spoke about “what a script” it would have been had Hamilton beaten Verstappen at the Circuit of the Americas.
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Hamilton came second behind Verstappen last weekend and is still chasing his first victory of the season.
“Seven-time world champion – I almost said eight-time world champion – seven-time world champion goes into the final race trying to be the greatest of all time, and win (the) championship.
“He gets robbed, comes back, his next year’s car is rubbish… doesn’t win a race all year, and then finally comes back at a track where he could win the first race all year, battling the same guy who won the race he was robbed in the previous year, and manages to finish ahead of him.
“What a script and a story that would have been. But that’s not the way the script turned out, was it?
“Because the guy that beat him after being robbed actually overtook him, because he’s got a quicker car, because of engineering and Formula One and design, and pretty much because of (Adrian Newey, Red Bull’s design guru) over there.”
A spokesperson for Red Bull told the Telegraph the stance was due to “longstanding issues with the lack of balance” shown by Sky Sports and in particular Kravitz.
Red Bull claimed this had been communicated to Sky Sports “on numerous occasions”.
They are also believed to be refusing to be interviewed by Sky Sports Germany and Italy.
The move hasn’t gone down too well with F1 fans.
