{"id":167989,"date":"2025-06-08T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167989\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T16:12:08","slug":"sky-f1-pundit-makes-major-announcement-with-surprise-new-job-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167989\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky F1 pundit makes major announcement with surprise new job confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Long-serving Sky F1 presenter Simon Lazenby has announced that he is to publish his first book later in the F1 2025 season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lazenby has fronted Sky F1\u2019s coverage since the broadcaster secured the live Formula 1 television rights in the United Kingdom and Ireland ahead of the 2012 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Sky F1 presenter Simon Lazenby to publish first book<\/p>\n<p>In a post on social media, Lazenby \u2013 who covered rugby union before switching focus to F1 13 years ago \u2013 confirmed that his first book,\u00a0Pressure, will be released in September.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cSurprisingly, I\u2019ve managed to write a book. It took a long time because I had to learn to write first!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPressure is all about the people in F1 who I have met along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the crew of the medical car, to the mechanics, chefs, trainers, photographers, illustrators, engineers, commentators, CEOs and drivers, I\u2019ve interviewed as many as I can from up and down the paddock, to bring you first-hand insight into how they do their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully some of you might fancy reading it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of them are the unsung heroes who get a chance to tell their stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Go deeper: The best of F1 broadcasting<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/features\/ranking-best-pundits-f1-brundle-rosberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ranking the best pundits in F1: Brundle, Rosberg, Hill and more all rated<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/f1-grid-walk-of-shame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F1 Grid Walk of Shame: Machine Gun Kelly latest addition to celebrity sh*tlist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The foreword of the book has been penned by Damon Hill, the 1996 World Champion and former Sky F1 pundit.<\/p>\n<p>Hill announced his departure from Sky F1 at the end of last year, just weeks after likening Red Bull driver and reigning four-time World Champion Max Verstappen to Dick Dastardly, the villain of the children\u2019s cartoon series Wacky Races.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Herbert, who left Sky F1 at the end of the 2022 season, revealed at the time that Hill was \u201cvery unhappy\u201d with the public reaction to his views on Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Hill \u2013 who now works as a pundit for BBC Radio 5 Live \u2013 remarked that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/damon-hill-hopes-max-verstappen-spat-did-not-influence-sky-f1-exit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would \u201clike to think\u201d that Sky F1\u2019s decision<\/a> to dispense with his services was not linked to his stringent thoughts on Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/max-verstappen-damon-hill-george-russell-spanish-gp-over-the-top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">renewed his criticism of Verstappen<\/a> earlier this week after the Red Bull driver was penalised for a clash with George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix, leaving him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/features\/f1-penalty-points-drivers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the brink of a one-race ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Asked for his view on the incident, Hill said on social media:\u00a0\u201cIt was a little ill-judged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe he thought he\u2019d done enough to satisfy the \u2018giving back the place\u2019 bit?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rest was over the top. As usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read next:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/damon-hill-abuse-lee-mckenzie-trolls-unwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Damon Hill tells \u2018mentally unwell\u2019 trolls to \u2018go and get some help\u2019 after abuse<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long-serving Sky F1 presenter Simon Lazenby has announced that he is to publish his first book later in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,225,12,12591,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-167989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sky-f1","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114648628912834388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}