Martin Brundle and Ted Kravitz don't see eye-to-eye on key Sky F1 decision

Martin Brundle and Ted Kravitz have vastly different approaches to their reporting on Sky Sports when covering Formula One race weekends. The pair have become synonymous with television coverage of F1 since working for the BBC, with both later joining Sky in 2012.

The highly knowledgeable and quirky Kravitz is known for his 'Ted's Notebook' segment, which sees him walk through the paddock and talk directly to teams and drivers, though he is taking a break from the action this weekend at the Mexican Grand Prix. Brundle, meanwhile, who is a former F1 driver, has become even better known for his decades of work as a pundit and commentator. Most notably, the 66-year-old conducts grid walks moments before races get underway, which often leads to awkward and hilarious encounters with A-list celebrities.

However, long-time colleagues Kravitz and Brundle, despite their respective success, go about their craft in different ways. The former says he meticulously watches back and analyses his segments in order to improve, while Brundle refuses to watch his grid walks again.

Asked whether he's self critical after races, Kravitz said on the podcast: "Every ten minutes I'm self critical. Constantly. That's the only way you learn. You have to watch back your pieces to say, 'Ah I should have done that differently', or, 'Maybe I should have said that there'.

"Very few sports have such high demands of their participants as F1. Perfection is expected. And if you don't notice your own performance then you're not doing it right and you'll never improve. You'll never have an idea the next time you do it.

"I've had so many ideas for the next time I do something by watching myself back and thinking, 'I could have done that better'. Sometimes there will be something I forgot to do on a Saturday that I can revisit on a Sunday, but you have to watch Saturday back in order to do that."

Brundle, meanwhile, has openly admitted in the past: "There's a reason why I've never watched back an F1 gridwalk in a quarter of a century of doing them. You have no idea how much I dislike doing them but somehow those crazy moments have defined my professional career. Oh well, that's the way it is."

Perhaps the key difference is that while Kravitz's segments are highly technical, the sharp-witted Brundle's grid walks often bring up bizarre and painful interactions, given their unscripted nature and the ego of the celebrities involved. The Brit is often seen pacing around trying to interview the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Cara Delevingne and Megan Thee Stallion, all three of whom have snubbed him in recent years.

"The grid walk actually really annoys me because that's what I'm known for now," Brundle told The Mail. "The whole thing is still a mystery. I won a lot of races as a driver and was on the F1 podium. I was World Sportscar Champion, winner at Le Mans, beat Ayrton Senna a lot of times in F3.

"I was a reasonably handy racing driver and I'm a reasonably handy commentator but all I'm going to be remembered for is getting ignored on the grid by the Megan Thee Stallion and other people I'd never heard of until that moment."