Antonio Lobato, forced to apologize for his controversial comments about Schumacher

In the last hours, Antonio Lobato was placed at the center of controversy after a comment in the post Suzuka GP where Verstappen won again. The famous commentator, accompanied by De la Rosa, Noemí de Miguel and Toni Cuquerella, had a small slip in the live show.

After one of the Red Bull engineers appeared on screen, Lobato wanted to make it clear that he was about to win the same world titles as him, a comment that sparked laughter on set and forced Toni Cuquerella to warn Adrián Newey : “Let it vibrate. , “Antonio Lobato is coming”.

Then, amid laughter that filled the space, the commentator ‘released’: “Let Michael (Schumacher) shake… Well no Michael, he couldn’t shake his head“. Some words that did not fall on deaf ears and caused outrage on Twitter and for which the journalist had to apologize a few hours later.

“I think it is needed to explain and admit that I was wrong. Please listen to my video. It’s a bit long, but I think it is needed,” wrote the man himself. Cub along with the photos, which soon accumulated thousands of views.

“I have to admit to yesterday’s GP post Japanese I made a mistake, with no bad intentions. Although now some are trying to say yes […]. It’s a mistake of pure stupidity, of pure inability to express yourself correctly, maybe because of too much time spent, although that’s not the reason,” the journalist began by saying.

After saying why he decided to give Schumacher’s name, Lobato clarified that “I don’t want to joke, I don’t want to be laughed at Michael Schumacher. Those who know me know that I will never joke about such things. But I was clumsy, to be honest I wasn’t precise with the braking and I overshot.”

Finally, Lobato also added that “I have to know that outside A lot of people are waiting for you to make a mistake like this to hurt you., to try to hurt you. “Maybe I’ve been too bad with them in my life or maybe it hurts that I’ve been on the front line for so many years.”