Sky F1 reporter issues grovelling apology after swearing on live TV

Sky Sports F1 newsman Ted Kravitz was forced to apologise aft dropping the F-bomb during their unrecorded broadcast of the Singapore Grand Prix.

The incidental occurred during their sum of the archetypal signifier league astatine the Marina Bay Street Circuit connected Friday morning.

Kravitz, 1 of the astir experienced and well-known Formula One pundits successful the world, was down by the Ferrari store commenting connected the plan of their car.

But during his analysis, the pit-lane newsman stumbled implicit his words earlier muttering: ‘Oh, f***ing hell. Sorry, let’s bash that again.’

The broadcast hastily chopped backmost to main presenter Simon Lazenby who aboriginal apologised for the swearing erstwhile handing the sum backmost to Kravitz.

‘Apologies for immoderate atrocious connection you whitethorn person heard a small spot earlier, but let’s spell backmost to the pit lane and to Ted for instrumentality two.’

It was past that Kravitz explained that an outtake had accidentally been aired alternatively of the last pre-recorded segment.

‘Simon, tin I conscionable adhd to that, large apologies from my side.

‘Just to fto you know, we’re unrecorded present – erstwhile the cars travel retired for the presentation, which I recorded earlier, I question perfection but sometimes I don’t get it.

‘And if I messiness up a archetypal instrumentality and them I’m frustrated with myself, sometimes a naughty connection comes out.

‘Obviously, that was ne'er meant to beryllium played – that’s our mistake and we’re owning that. I apologise that that take, which was not meant to beryllium played, got played out.

‘This happens successful tv sometimes, truthful apologies for that. We’ll question to bash amended adjacent time.’

This incidental occurred conscionable a time aft FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem called for F1 drivers to chopped backmost connected swearing portion racing and for broadcasters to halt showing immoderate squad vigor messages that incorporate foul language.

This petition hasn’t gone down excessively good with drivers, particularly Max Verstappen and the title person has present been summoned to the stewards for dropping the F-bomb during Thursday’s property conference.

Lewis Hamilton understood wherever Ben Sulayem was coming from but took objection aft helium likened swearing drivers to ‘rappers’.

The president said: ‘We person to differentiate betwixt our athletics and rap music. We’re not rappers.

‘They usage the F-word however galore times per minute? Imagine you are sitting with your children and watching the contention and idiosyncratic is saying each this soiled language.’

‘I don’t similar however helium has expressed it. Saying “rappers”, is precise stereotypical,’ Hamilton said.

‘If you deliberation astir it, astir rappers are black, so, it says “we are not similar them”. So I deliberation those are the incorrect prime of words and determination is simply a radical constituent there.’

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