David Croft questioned how Formula 1 fans can complain about Max Verstappen's remarkable success so far this season.
Verstappen is on a streak of eight race wins in a row and has 10 victories in total to show for his season so far. And his Red Bull team has a perfect record in 2023 as his team-mate Sergio Perez took the win in the other two Grands Prix.
As impressive as Red Bull have been, some F1 fans have done nothing but complain about the current state of the championship. Some argue that the sport is dull in the absence of a title race, with no-one able to match Verstappen in a straight fight.
But not everyone shares that opinion. Sky Sports commentator Croft is clearly among the latter group, as evidenced by his criticism of the sport's boo boys in the midst of this remarkable Red Bull dominance.
"It is so so easy to run with the herd here and say 'Oh, it’s boring because Max keeps winning'," he said on the latest episode of the broadcaster's F1 podcast. "Why not marvel at the record? At the excellence? At the consistency and to be that good for so long?
"The sight of cars going at 200 miles an hour plus, or doing 170 miles an hour through Maggots and Becketts, or showing the most supreme engineering challenge, in the hands of some of the most talented human beings ever to grab hold of a steering wheel, where we're at tracks where you're millimetres away from ruining your afternoon for 70-odd laps in a race. If you think that's boring, I can't help you. I really can't."
The new football season is upon us and with 500 live games to watch, as well access to Cricket, Golf, F1, Boxing, NFL and the NBA across eight dedicated channels, Sky Sports is the only way to watch all the action.
While it may be boring for some fans, safe to say everyone involved with Red Bull feels very differently about the situation. That includes Verstappen, who dismissed the suggestion that even he might be getting bored with how easy some of his victories have been this year.
"That actually doesn't make it boring. That's why I'm here. I want to be here. I want to win," he told reporters. "To be up front. It's what makes it a lot more enjoyable to come to a race weekend. Knowing that you can't win, you have no chance – that's boring for me. This is the opposite.
"I just put a lot of pressure on myself to try to deliver what I can. The team does that as well, they always want to be as good as they can be. Some races look easier than others, sometimes it just clicks a bit easier. I think that is the strength of the team, we always want to do the best we can, we always want to improve. That's why we are doing so well at the moment."