Max Verstappen’s Red Bull staff will refuse to talk to Sky Sports indefinitely, beginning at Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix, the PA information company understands.
Verstappen refused to handle the broadcaster when he put his Red Bull on pole place for Sunday’s race after he was made conscious of Sky Sports’ pit-lane reporter Ted Kravitz saying Lewis Hamilton was final 12 months “robbed” of an eighth world championship.
But your entire staff – together with Christian Horner – will now topic Sky to a boycott after rising more and more pissed off with its protection.
Sky Sports declined to remark when contacted.
Hamilton completed runner-up to Verstappen eventually weekend’s United States Grand Prix in Austin after he was handed by the Red Bull driver with six laps remaining.
Following the race, Kravitz mentioned: “(Hamilton) doesn’t win a race all year, and then finally comes back at a track where he could win the first race, 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 today, 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 technical chief) over there.”
It is known that Dr Helmut Marko, Red Bull’s motorsport adviser, was attributable to communicate to Sky Italia and Sky Germany forward of as we speak’s race, however the interview has been cancelled.
Verstappen claimed his maiden world championship in a hotly disputed season finale in Abu Dhabi final 12 months after race director Michael Masi incorrectly utilized the security automotive guidelines within the closing laps.
Although Masi was faraway from his place, an FIA investigation mentioned the Australian acted in “good faith” however made a “human error”.
Source: www.impartial.co.uk