Red꧑ Bull and Max Verstappen notably boycotted interviews last season from Sky Sports, the UK broadcaster of Formula 1, and Herbert’s then-emp🦩loyers.

It was beli🍎eved to be a response to comments from Ted Kravitz, and it resulted in top bosses from Sky a🦂nd Red Bull meeting to end the tension.

“I was always free to express🌳 what I wanted,” Herbert told the .

“But… if everybody said on TV on Channel 4 or Sky, or anyone, if you sort of had😼 a bit of a go at a team they will get upset. 

“And if they get upset there’s always a chance, like we saw with Maxꦦ, ‘oh we're not going to do it with you because you said that’. 

“That's 🐠where you sort of have to sometimes tread carefully.

🌊“But it's understandable. I always remember when I was racing there were sometimes things said which upset you and the♊n you probably never spoke to that journalist maybe for a couple of races or more.

“So I get it but when it's down to a team. I always think you 🍨should be able to be as outspoken as you want to be in certain situat💯ions.

"I always thought I was fairly🔥 outspoken on certain issues that came up. I never thought you should shy away from them.

“Some people don't want to upset a certain person within a team beca๊use🦄 they sort of had a relationship. 

“And you sort of think it shouldn’t be a🔯bout your relationship, it should be about wh💖at you see and what you hear from fans.”

Herbert wღas axed from Sky’s line-up of experts for the 2023 season and now hosts the Lift The Lid podcast with Billy Monger.

🐼He says it is nice not worrying about “upse𓆉tting people” in his new role.