Kravitz was born in Hammersmith, London, to a British father and an American mother from Union City, New Jersey. While studying at university, he began presenting on University Radio Exeter. After graduating, he trained as a journalist at CBS News' London bureau before working as a news and sports reporter for local radio stations in the South-West of England. He then returned to London to work for 95.8 Capital FM on their Sony Award-winning news programme The Way It Is. A subsequent spell as a news and sports reporter for LBC and London News Direct preceded his move into motorsport broadcasting.
At the end of 1996 Kravitz joined Chrysalis Television to work on their Grand Prix programming. When ITV took over the UK's Formula One television rights in 1997, Kravitz joined the production as a producer. He transitioned to an on-screen pit-lane reporter role in 2002, working alongside Louise Goodman. He effectively replaced James Allen in the pit lane when Allen was promoted to race commentator following Murray Walker's retirement from that role. Kravitz remained in the pit lane for ITV's entire Formula One run. In 2007 and 2008 he also presented ITV's British Touring Car Championship coverage.
When BBC Sport assumed the UK Formula One television contract in 2009, Kravitz continued as pit-lane reporter, this time working alongside Lee McKenzie. He remained in the role for the full three seasons of the BBC's initial F1 tenure, through to the end of 2011.
In December 2011 it was announced that Kravitz would move to Sky Sports F1, joining Martin Brundle and other broadcasters who transferred from the BBC as Sky launched its dedicated Formula One channel for the 2012 season. At Sky he hosts the weekly The F1 Show — joined by co-presenter Georgie Thompson in his first year — and presents Ted's Notebook, a short paddock segment in which Kravitz delivers technical information on car developments, mechanical problems, and setup data from each test or race weekend. He is also a regular presence at Formula One winter testing, producing nightly editions of Ted's Notebook to cover each day's activity.
Controversy arose in October 2022 following the United States Grand Prix when Kravitz made comments stating that Lewis Hamilton had been robbed of the 2021 Formula One World Championship. The remarks prompted a boycott of all Sky Sports F1 interviews and programmes by Max Verstappen and his Red Bull Racing team for the entirety of the Mexico City Grand Prix weekend.
On 20 September 2024, ahead of the first practice session for the Singapore Grand Prix, a pre-recorded segment in which Kravitz analysed the Ferrari SF-24 was accidentally broadcast in an unedited form, including an expletive Kravitz had used in frustration at his own performance. Both Kravitz and fellow presenter Simon Lazenby apologised to viewers on air.
Across three decades covering Formula One — first for ITV, then BBC, then Sky — Kravitz has become one of the sport's most recognisable technical communicators. Ted's Notebook in particular is regarded as a distinctive format that bridged the gap between paddock insider knowledge and general audience understanding of the sport's engineering complexity.
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