Adrian Newey has hit out at Sky Sports’ “nationalistic” F1 coverage which led to the “demonisation” of Red Bull drivers 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sebastian Vettel and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen over the years.

Sky hasꦬ been the UK’s F1 broadcaster since 2012, taking over from the BBC.

Sky’s ✃introduction into F1 coincided with Red Bull’s dominance with Vettel, who won four straight titles.

Fast forward a decade, it’s Verstappen who has won three consecuti🅠ve drivers’ titles - and is on for a fourth in 2024.

Both Vettel and Verstappen were seen as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton’s main rivals over ღthe last decade, with various title battles and ꧋on-track incidents.

Red Bull boycotted Sky’s coverage during the 2022 Mexico Grand Prix weekend after they were unhappy with a claim made that Hamilton was “robbed” of the title 🥀in 2021.

Speaking on the podcast, Newey explained why he feels that Sky’s coverage can “have an i♓nfluence” on how Vettel and Verstappen were viewed.

“From the outside I’m not sure people fully appreciate and underꦜstand Max, just like they didn’t with Sebastian,” Newey said.

“Because first of all, there’s a sort of demonisation that bot꧃h of them suffered at times which I think’s very unfair.

“Maybe that’s also a little bit of the British media, if I’m honest, Sk🏅y have a huge influence around the world, their viewing is truly international but their coverage is quite nationalistic, dare I say, and that can have an influence.”

Newey feels that Verstappen is still underrated, part💮icularly with how he’s able to drive an F1 car “automatically” which likened a comparison to Fernando Alonso.

“It almost feels as if [Verstappen] can drive th♒e car automatically,” Newey added. “He doesn’t, of course, but he can drive the car and have so much processing power left over that he can then think a lot about how he is driving the car, how he is looking after the tyres, what he might need to do in the settings or if he’s not sure, ask [his race engineer] on the💙 radio what he should be doing, but highlighting the problems.

“Reading the race still fascinates me – Fernando is another 𓆉one that can do that, he seems to be able to read the race but [they] haven’t got all the stuff in front of them.”