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Every Tongue That Rises Against Max Verstappen Shall Fall Sky Sports Vilified for Pandering To Red Bull s Tantrums After Boycott Row

Published 11/07/2022, 9:11 AM ESTBy BARCELONA, SPAIN – FEBRUARY 27: Max Verstappen of Netherlands and Red Bull Racing, Red Bull Racing Team Principal Christian Horner and Red Bull Racing Team Consultant Dr Helmut Marko look on in the garage during Day Two of F1 Winter Testing at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on February 27, 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images) Red Bull has been the news in 2022 for all sorts of reasons. Safe to say, the Milton-Keynes-based outfit has had a busy year. Recently, they capped the whole season off in style by winning both the Driver’s and Constructors’ Championships. But as it would appear, controversy is never too far for the Bulls. ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad Red Bull had been embroiled in the whole cost cap saga. Once that concluded, you’d imagine the Champions to keep it all low-key. However, after comments from Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz, the Bulls came back into the spotlight. ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad Kravitz made about ‘robbing’ Lewis Hamilton of his eighth title. This prompted the team to boycott the British broadcasters for the Mexican Grand Prix weekend. That being said, the Director of Sky Sports recently visited ‘s factory. This has sent shockwaves throughout the F1 fandom, and they’ve come out in spades to show their reactions on Twitter.

Fans react as the Director of Sky Sports visits Red Bull factory in light of Mexico boycott

Verstappen was offended by the comments made by Kravitz and hence, the team decided to boycott Sky Sports. About the whole incident, Verstappen , “It had nothing to do with this weekend, but this year. It has been a constant kind of digging and being disrespectful, especially from one particular person. At some point, it is enough and I don’t accept it.” In light of the whole situation, the Director of Sky Sports visited the factory of the Bulls at Milton Keynes. Fans were quick to swarm Twitter to share their reactions to this piece of news. Let’s take a look at just a few of the fan on Twitter. Sky Sports' F1 director to visit Red Bull's factory today to clear the air after their boycott of the broadcaster at the Mexican Grand Prix over perceived bias against Max Verstappen — Dan – EngineMode11 (@EngineMode11) Every tongue that rises againstax Verstappen shall fall — Naman (@nmaamxaun) Redbull has really mastered the art of gaslighting and bullshit — Aunty Lydia (@DiaSir_Lewis) Live footage of the meeting — Quick Stop F1 Podcast (@QuickStopF1) Red Bull went against the British broadcasters after they thought there was an unfair bias against the Dutch driver. Even though the fans have been divisive about the whole scenario, fans weren’t too pleased about the fact that the Director of the media house was ‘clearing the air’ with the team. gotta apologize for saying the truth or what? The sport being a toy for redbull’s tantrums — x (@yukiXNDA) Who would want to visit a place filled with cheats — Henry Busby (@Henrybusby_) So embarrassing — Unicorn? (@hamburgerh0tdog) This is pathetic — m (@mericedes) The gaslighting is unreal man — m ‍ (@formulamaja) The team had come out with a after the race telling the media that the boycott was indeed over. “Some 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. It is not impartial or fair or balanced. We have said our piece and will go back to normal next race.” What for wrong move!! They boycotted you, they should come to you. Have a little pride, you know who you are as they do, they need you. You better be going to have Ted’s back and release yourselves from they clutches you did NOTHING wrong! — Still.I.Rise …. (@ladyd7) This is so embarrassing in so many ways ? — eda ? (@edascedes) The Redbull Tantrum grows endless. It’s incredible that SkySports will now have to bend over to the tantrum throwing cheaters. Ted in his sandals has truly rattled the team of pathetic cheats. — V F1 (@swiftsambi) ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad Watch This Story: "Perceived" doing some heavy lifting here lol — Lydia Petze (@lydia_petze) ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad Now that this whole saga has unfolded, do you think Red Bull went too far with the whole boycott?

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