Verstappen leads boycott after disrespect

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Red Bull Racing has joined Max Verstappen's boycott of Sky Sports, refusing to enactment successful post-race interviews with the broadcaster aft pit lane newsman Ted Kravitz suggested that past season's runner-up Lewis Hamilton was "robbed" of the title.

After scoring his unrivalled 14th contention triumph of the twelvemonth astatine the Mexican Grand Prix, Verstappen and the wider Red Bull squad snubbed the network's channels, besides impacting Sky Germany and Sky Italia's sum of the contention weekend.

Kravitz made the comments astir past season's controversial rubric decider successful Abu Dhabi during his post-race conception 'Ted's Notebook' aft past week's United States Grand Prix.

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With Verstappen and Hamilton finishing one-two astatine the Circuit of the Americas, Kravitz said "what a script" it would person been had Hamilton beaten Verstappen.

"Seven-time satellite champion – I astir said eight-time satellite champion – seven-time satellite champion goes into the last contention trying to beryllium the top of each time, and triumph [the] championship," helium said.

"He gets robbed, comes back, his adjacent year's car is rubbish… [Hamilton] doesn't triumph a contention each year, and past yet comes backmost astatine a way wherever helium could triumph the archetypal contention each year, battling the aforesaid feline who won the contention helium was robbed successful the erstwhile twelvemonth and manages to decorativeness up of him.

"What a publication and a communicative that would person been. But that's not the mode the publication turned out, was it?

"Because the feline that bushed him aft being robbed really overtook him, due to the fact that he's got a quicker car, due to the fact that of engineering and Formula One and design, and beauteous overmuch due to the fact that of [Adrian Newey, Red Bull's main method officer] implicit there."

This was not the archetypal clip the British newsman had made his beardown feelings connected the 2021 play finale known.

Verstappen explained that his determination proved helium would nary longer tolerate Kravitz's invalidation of his satellite championship.

"It had thing to bash this weekend," helium said.

"But this twelvemonth it's been a constant… Yeah, benignant of similar regular being disrespectful, particularly 1 peculiar person. And it's enough, I don't judge it.

"You can't unrecorded successful the past. You conscionable person to determination on. Social media is simply a precise toxic place, and if you are perpetually being similar that unrecorded connected TV, you marque it lone worse alternatively of trying to marque it better.

"You support disrespecting me, and astatine 1 point, I'm not tolerating it anymore. That's wherefore I decided to halt answering them."

Sky Sports showed an interrogation with Verstappen pursuing his triumph successful Mexico connected Monday (AEDT), but this was supplied by F1 itself.

It is not known if Verstappen oregon Red Bull volition look connected Sky Sports' sum again this season.

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