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Fans fume at Croft's commentary over Verstappen: 'I've had enough'

19:30, 23 Jul 2024

bySophia Crothall

David Croft is under fire for his commentary throughout the Hungarian Grand Prix. The Sky Sports F1 commentator, also known as 'Crofty', repeatedly made comments over Max Verstappen's performance. He blamed the world champion's late night sim racing for his behaviour during the Hungarian Grand Prix, including his 'heated' radio messages with his engineer. Now, the internet has defended Verstappen against Croft's comments.

During Sunday's race at the Hungaroring, Croft made repeated remarks over the Red Bull Racing driver's performance and radio messages. The night before, Verstappen had taken part in an online sim race, which left him going to bed around 3 am. In Imola, Verstappen did the same thing, and was able to win both races that weekend. Nevertheless, with his P5 finish on Sunday, Croft was not impressed, claiming: “Max sounds like a man who could have had a better nights sleep last night…”

How did the internet react?

The internet has since defended the triple world-champion, suggesting the comments made by the Sky Sports F1 commentator were unnecessary.

F1 Jayy

@F1JayyUK

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Crofty shut up about Max doing sim races. It’s 9 times now mate.

2:19 PM · Jul 21, 2024

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Crofty seriously needs to stop this ‘Max should’ve went to sleep instead of sim racing’ BS The problem is not Max it’s the car

2:20 PM · Jul 21, 2024

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@MVEdition

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You know it’s bad when fucking Ted Kravitz is sticking up for Max and saying that he has won a race before whilst doing sim racing the evening before. Had enough of Crofty’s awful commentary

2:21 PM · Jul 21, 2024

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