Danica Patrick stays on as Sky Sports analyst despite controversial remark
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- GPblog.com
Sky Sports have announced their team of F1 reporters for 2024. We will see the same faces on and off the grid next year. In addition, one name will be added to the line-up, but the British broadcaster will not announce who this is until a later date. Danica Patrick will stay on as an analyst despite receiving a lot of criticism following a comment earlier this year, it has been confirmed to PlanetF1.
Patrick made a controversial statement in 2023 by saying that the nature of the sport (F1) is "masculine". "You have to, you know, handle the car – not only just the car because that’s skill, but the mindset that it takes to be really good is something that’s not normal in a feminine mind, a female mind."
Patrick is an American former race car driver. She is the first and so far only woman to win an IndyCar race.
This is what the provisional Sky Sports lineup in 2024 looks like:
Sky analysts:
Jenson Button, Nico Rosberg, Naomi Schiff, Anthony Davidson, Damon Hill, Karun Chandhok, Danica Patrick and Bernie Collins.
Sky presenters:
Rachel Brookes, Natalie Pinkham, Ted Kravitz and Craig Slater.
Sky commentators:
David Croft and Martin Brundle
'Lead presenter trackside':
Simon Lazenby