“Or maybe I’ve called some great races and some stuff I feel where I’ve really aced something in commentary, and it just doesn’t matter. So I hold them in great esteem,” declared Brundle.Ī fleeting moment in the path of Megan The Stallion made Martin even more famousįamously, he had a run-in with Megan Thee Stallion during a legendary grid walk, that went viral on social media, during the United States Grand Prix, a split-second incident that is now well etched into the fabric of the sport’s narrative.īrundle recalled: “It just amused me, really, that being ignored on the grid by Megan Thee Stallion-or her henchman, her bodyguard or whatever-or DJ Khaled, it just travels so much further than winning Le Mans or the Daytona 24 Hours. “But the best drivers still end up in the best cars, and the cream always rises to the top. So they’re more precise than we used to be. And if they break three meters too early, they’ve thrown away the corner. “The cars and tracks are much safer, but these guys now-they are all guys at the moment and hopefully that will change-they break within half a meter at 210 miles an hour. Then we went through the horrible years of burning and smashing up legs and hitting heads and all that sort of thing. It was about survival and hoping you get thrown out of the car. Back in Stirling day, who was a friend of mine, if they survived the year, they were lucky. I see how dedicated they are, see how super fit they are, and how hard they’re working. Speaking about today’s F1 drivers and the privilege they have to be racing at the highest level in this day and age, Brundle said: “I see them as very lucky to be there, like I was. That’s probably one of the bravest things I’ve ever seen in a Formula 1 car. Have you ever seen Mark Webber overtake Fernando Alonso around the outside in Eau Rouge? That’s worth YouTubing. But no, I don’t think you ever get scared. “So yeah, I believe in fate on all that kind of thing. He just got so unlucky with that piece of suspension, for example. And if you look at Ayrton’s crash in 1994 at Imola, we all survived much worse crashes than that. English language F1 was their show unlike these days, where Brundle has emerged as the trustworthy and much-loved voice of our sport amid a glut of ‘pundits’ that the microphone/keyboard/YouTube age has spawned.īut, by his own account in an interview with GQ Magazine, we are lucky that Brundle is still around: “I survived three crashes I probably shouldn’t have survived. While the great Murray and James Hunt stood out for decades, they had no rivals. For many, including some of us within the GRANDPRIX247 crew, Martin Brundle is to modern Formula 1 what legendary Murray Walker was decades ago, and we are lucky the Sky F1 man is still around to call races, some big crashes might’ve ended differently for him…
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