Kravitz had referenced Hamilton being \u201crobbed\u201d of the title.<\/p>\n
Hamilton lost the 2021 F1 championship due to \u201chuman error\u201d, with then-race director Michael Masi entirely to blame.<\/p>\n
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Verstappen was unhappy with the comments and refused to speak to Sky during the Mexico weekend.<\/p>\n
Christian Horner also felt Sky had not been fair towards Verstappen or Red Bull.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were some derogatory comments made so we took a break from Sky for this race,\u201d Horner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMax was upset. We were upset and we made the decision to stand together as a team. It won\u2019t have done Sky any harm for us to lay down a marker.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the commentary is fair but some pieces are sensationalist, and saying we robbed anyone of the championship, as was said in Austin, is going too far.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt is not impartial or fair or balanced.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kravitz on Verstappen chat<\/p>\n
Red Bull have since had no problems with Sky or their coverage.<\/p>\n
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Max Verstappen, Red Bull<\/p>\n
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In a recent interview with The Telegraph, Kravitz detailed a conversation he had with Verstappen about the boycott.<\/p>\n
Kravitz explained that while Verstappen himself wasn\u2019t particularly bothered, he was unhappy with the hate directed at his family, particularly his girlfriend, Kelly Piquet.<\/p>\n
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Kravitz said: \u201cMax referred to this stuff on social media, and he says: \u2018Look, I don\u2019t care. People say terrible things about me all the time. I\u2019m doing my job and you\u2019re doing your job. It\u2019s not us that care, it\u2019s the people around me that care.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018So then if you say or people misinterpret that you say that you think I stole a championship off Lewis \u2013 even if you didn\u2019t say that, people think that\u2019s what you said. You\u2019re a voice in Formula 1, and then my mum on social media gets abuse or my sister, or Kelly, my partner. It\u2019s them I\u2019m looking to protect.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, \u2018Max, I absolutely get it, and it\u2019s horrible and regretful and I\u2019m sorry that it gets to these points. But these things get clipped up, it all gets blown up out [of proportion] and then we get to this point\u2019. So then we understood each other completely.\u201d<\/p>\n
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