The F1 circus travels to Saudi Arabia for the fifth spherical of the season in Jeddah, with Sky Sports activities making a change to their presenting line-up for the Grand Prix weekend
Ted Kravitz can be lacking from Sky Sports activities’ protection of this weekend’s Saudi Arabia Grand Prix. The fifth race of the season can be held in Jeddah on Sunday night, with McLaren’s Lando Norris hoping to increase his benefit on the prime of the championship.
Norris leads team-mate Oscar Piastri by simply three factors after the Australian received final week’s Bahrain Grand Prix. McLaren are anticipated to dominate in Saudi this weekend, at a monitor that has constantly thrown up thrilling races.
Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez are the three males to have received underneath the lights in Jeddah. Crimson Bull are at the moment on a three-year run because the successful constructor, although that’s more likely to change this weekend.
Sky will provide UK viewers complete protection of the Grand Prix, as they do for each race of the F1 season. Kravitz has been a key member of Sky’s group since 2012 when he joined the broadcaster from BBC Sport. Working as a pitlane reporter, Kravitz delivers common updates throughout periods of every group’s technique. He additionally hosts the favored Ted’s Pocket book programme after every session of a Grand Prix weekend.
However he has now revealed that he won’t be attending the Saudi Grand Prix this 12 months. Kravtiz additionally confirmed that the Pocket book wouldn’t be broadcast with a substitute host and can as a substitute return with the Miami Grand Prix in Could.
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He stated: “It is the Saudi Grand Prix on the 18th, nineteenth and twentieth of April. I will not be there – it is my first of this 12 months’s races the place I am not on web site. So the Pocket book will return on the Miami Grand Prix firstly of Could.”
Kravtiz’s absence is just not a shock, with the reporter additionally lacking final 12 months’s Saudi Grand Prix consistent with the phrases of his contract. With 24 races throughout the 12 months, every Sky broadcaster misses races to take time without work.
This weekend’s race is ready to be sizzling and dry throughout what’s the second night-time Grand Prix of the season. Free Follow One begins at 2.30pm on Friday, with qualifying at 6pm on Saturday and the race getting underway at 6pm on Sunday.
Jeddah hosts the quickest road circuit on the earth and the second-fastest monitor on the F1 calendar. The automobiles will common round 250km/h over the course of the race, whereas navigating 27 corners – essentially the most on the F1 calendar.
Nearly all of these are taken at full pace, with 75 p.c of a lap spent at full pace. It’s a monitor Norris is trying ahead to taking up as he appears to be like to bounce again from a disappointing Bahrain Grand Prix.
“I’m excited to move again to Jeddah for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix this weekend. It’s a extremely quick monitor and we now have a fast automobile, so we’ll be aiming to complete this triple-header strongly,” he stated.
“I’m proud with how we’ve began the season. We’ve celebrated our success but in addition come collectively as a group to debrief and take away our learnings forward of the subsequent race. I’m feeling good and sit up for going racing once more this weekend.”
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