For regular F1 watchers, Kravitz is now a firm fixture, and a popular one at that. His priority, of feeding live and useful info to the main commentators during practice, qualifying and the race, remains at the core of what he does.
“That’s what you will be judged on by your audience,” says Kravitz. But the extra features he films over race weekends, and most notably the Ted’s Notebook show, has elevated his profile.
The informal downloads to camera in bustling pits as busy teams pack up around him are now an F1 staple.
Despite being there simply to say what he sees, Kravitz has on occasion stoked the hornet’s nest by expressing a take on F1 matters that hasn’t been appreciated by all.
Most famously, Red Bull briefly boycotted Sky Sports F1 on the back of Kravitz stating that Lewis Hamilton had been “robbed” of an eighth world title at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix which in his book he describes as “perhaps the most significant and important moment of my time in F1”.
What was it like to become the centre of the story? “Much less dramatic than everybody imagines,” he says.
“Sky Sports F1 backed me up, because I hadn’t actually said anything that was a rogue view or hadn’t been said many times before by other people. But it had been clipped up, circulated and seen by people within Red Bull. It reignited the Abu Dhabi controversy a year after it happened.”
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