{"id":294803,"date":"2023-10-22T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T08:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=294803"},"modified":"2023-10-22T08:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T08:25:13","slug":"christian-horner-suggests-ted-kravitz-talks-out-of-his-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/racing\/f1\/christian-horner-suggests-ted-kravitz-talks-out-of-his-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Horner suggests Ted Kravitz 'talks out of his a***'"},"content":{"rendered":"
Christian Horner jokingly took a dig at Sky Sports reporter Ted Kravitz after he made a claim about a fault in Max Verstappen’s car during the broadcast of the sprint shootout in Texas on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kravitz was at the centre stage of a huge bust-up last year after he claimed that Lewis Hamilton beating Max Verstappen in the 2022 Austin Grand Prix would be something out of a ‘movie script’ as he was ‘robbed’ in Abu Dhabi the previous year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It resulted in Red Bull boycotting interviews with the broadcaster before lifting it last November, with Kravitz nowadays back to conducting interviews with the likes of Horner and Verstappen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Red Bull boss light heartedly slammed the pit lane reporter after he had reported there was an electric issue with Verstappen’s car during Saturday’s sprint race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Ted’s always talking… usually not out of his mouth,’ Horner replied when the question was put to him.’<\/p>\n
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Christian Horner jokingly took a dig at Sky Sports reporter Ted Kravitz in Austin on Saturday<\/p>\n
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The Sky Sports reporter suggested Max Verstappen was having electrical issues with his car\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Despite the slight mishap Verstappen went on to take pole position for the sprint race\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sky Sports presenter\u00a0Simon Lazenby interrupted to say ‘unfair’ before Horner answered the question, saying:\u00a0‘There’s always things electrically you can tidy up.<\/p>\n
‘There’s some driverability stuff that Max wants us to tune before the race. [There are no issues] from a reliability point of view.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite the mishap Verstappen went on to take pole position for the sprint, beating Charles Leclerc,\u00a0Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris, with all four drivers separated by one-tenth of a second.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After sealing pole for the sprint, the Dutch driver said: ‘We were quite competitive.\u00a0 The last lap wasn’t particularly great but still on pole, so that means the car is working quite well. It’s going to be an exciting afternoon.<\/p>\n
‘You can see a lot of different cars being very close to each other, so you don’t know what’s going to happen in the Sprint Race. It’s all going to be a bit of a question mark [with what to expect in the sprint]. Overall, normally in the race, we are quite OK. Nevertheless, this track is always quite demanding.<\/p>\n
‘Tyre management is always quite key around here. The wear is quite high because of all the high-speed corners, then you have to deal with the low-speed where you need traction. It’s going to be tough.’<\/p>\n
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc will take pole position for Sunday’s race with Lando Norris second and Lewis Hamilton third, while Verstappen will start from sixth position.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n