Red Bull backs Verstappen and boycotts Sky Sports 'indefinitely'

The entire Red Bull Racing team will not speak to Sky Sports for the time being. In doing so, the team is backing Max Verstappen, who had had enough after a derogatory statement made by pit reporter Ted Kravitz.

The statements Kravitz made during the US Grand Prix have had big implications. Not just Verstappen, but the entire Red Bull team will not speak to Sky Sports for the time being. That includes team boss Christian Horner, who normally always speaks to the British media outlet during and after sessions. The boycott applies to all editions of Sky Sports, including the Italian and German editions, and is 'indefinite'. This reports Press Association.

The boycott is in response to Kravitz's remarks a week earlier in Austin. During the broadcast, the reporter stated that Lewis Hamilton was 'robbed' in Abu Dhabi last year and that he should have been an eight-time world champion rather than seven-time. Moreover, Kravitz suggested that Verstappen owed his victory at the Circuit of the Americas at Hamilton's expense to the car Adrian Newey built for him.