Ted Kravitz issues grovelling apology after dropping F-bomb on Sky Sports F1 broadcast

Sky Sports F1 favourite Ted Kravitz and big Simon Lazenby some apologised to viewers aft the erstwhile swore during a broadcast up of Singapore Grand Prix practice

Ted Kravitz was forced to apologise connected the unrecorded Sky Sports broadcast aft swearing connected aerial astatine the Singapore Grand Prix.

The experienced pit lane reporter's faux pas happened during the broadcast up of the archetypal signifier league of the contention play astatine Marina Bay. Kravitz was commenting connected the plan of the Ferrari cars during the pit lane presumption erstwhile helium made a mistake connected a take.

He stopped talking and said, 'Oh, f***ing hell', earlier the broadcast rapidly chopped backmost to main presenter Simon Lazenby. A fewer minutes later, they went backmost to Kravitz who explained that a archetypal instrumentality which had been scrapped was accidentally played to viewers.

As helium handed backmost to Kravitz, Lazenby said: "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."

And erstwhile the cameras chopped to the pit lane reporter, helium continued: "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. 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."

Naturally, the incidental did not spell unnoticed by fans, galore of whom took to societal media to respond to what they had seen and heard. "Can’t judge they played 1 of Ted Kravitz's outtakes connected the Ferrari beforehand wing," wrote one.

Another joked that the Sky Sports F1 favourite "needs a delay" to his segments to debar specified mistakes. And a 3rd tagged Kravitz successful their station arsenic they asked him: "Did idiosyncratic hide to archer you it was unrecorded TV?"

And determination were plentifulness of others who pointed retired the irony of the mistake coming successful the aforesaid week that FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem called for drivers to caput their connection portion racing, and revealed that the governing assemblage has asked F1 chiefs not to broadcast profanity to fans astatine home.

One instrumentality wrote: "The FIA banning swearing from drivers and past Ted Kravitz having the incorrect instrumentality aired connected Sky of him conscionable swearing is truthful funny." And different added: "Ted dropping F-bombs wrong minutes of the F1 broadcast starting has made my day."