Ted Kravitz

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Kravitz at the 2005 United States Grand Prix

Ted Kravitz is ITV's Formula One pitlane commentator. He replaced James Allen who was promoted to the post of race commentator, following the retirement of Murray Walker.

After working on University Radio Exeter in his college days, Ted trained as a journalist at CBS News' London bureau before working for local radio stations in the South-West of England as a news and sport reporter. He then returned to London to work for 95.8 Capital FM, on their Sony award-winning news show, The Way It Is.

After a spell as a news and sports reporter for LBC and London News Direct, he joined Chrysalis Television at the end of 1996 to work on their Grand Prix programming.

Ted now acts as one half of the ITV pit crew, alongside Louise Goodman. He has worked with ITV since the beginning of their F1 coverage in 1997, initially as a producer, before becoming a pitlane reporter in 2002.

Ted is married to Kate, a luminary in the world of book design and a peligrino.

In 2007 he, and fellow F1 reporter Louise Goodman, became presenters of ITV's BTCC coverage