Ted talks

Sky Sports' pit lane reporter Ted Kravitz has written a book about his hard-working life in Formula 1.DAMIEN SMITH meets him

- DAMIEN SMITH

Ted Kravitz has been pounding the pit lanes in Formula 1 for the past 23 years in his role as a TV reporter. In that time, he has witnessed all the big moments first hand: controversial races, thrilling victories, the trauma and tragedy of major accidents, the tears and raw emotion of championships won and lost.

But as he quickly admits, it's not about him and what he has seen but rather what he has relayed to us, you, the fan, in those high-intensity moments. He has one job. “It hasn’t changed too much in this otherwise fast-changing F1 world,” says Kravitz. “From broadcaster to viewer, we are there to inform, entertain and bring people from their screens to as close to the action as possible, to make them feel a part of it.”

Now he has gone a step further and written a book: F1 Insider - Notes from the Pit Lane. It’s an ideal way for F1 fans to get their fix ahead of the 2026 season, as Kravitz picks through the stories behind the stories, just as he has done first for ITV, then the BBC and since 2012 for Sky Sports. “F1 Insider’ as a title is a bit of a joke,” he explains, “because it’s not me: I want to make everyone, the viewers, feel like F1 insiders.”