Posts Tagged ‘Martin Brundle’

Brundle reveals Webber’s fantasy – breakfast then ruined for millions.

As Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg battled it out on the Melbourne track, the BBC’s Martin Brundle made viewers choke on their cornflakes, as he revealed that Webber’s pet name for Rosberg was ‘Britney’, in reference to the once hot… but now not so appealing songstress, Britney Spears.

Male viewers swamped the BBC switchboard complaining that while they initially liked the thought of Britney in her schoolgirl uniform, they could not now get the image of Nico in drag out of their mind.

While co-commentator, Jonathan ‘Headmaster Delivery’ Legard was for once speechless, plainly unaware of who Britney Spears was, Brundle vainly tried to shoe in a Britney song title before realising he didn’t know one.

The joke could have worked had it been about the other Nico (Hulkenberg) who will not be asking Kamui Kobayashi to ‘Hit me baby one more time’.

Sunday, March 28th, 2010
Tags: Mark Webber, Martin Brundle, Nico Hulkenberg, Nico Rosberg
Posted in 28 March – Australia, Mercedes-2010 | Brundle reveals Webber’s fantasy – breakfast then ruined for millions.

Renault employ minder to keep an eye on Petrov.

BBC viewers were surprised to see legendary James Bond villain, Rosa Klebb, on the Melbourne grid, guarding fellow Russian, Vitaly Petrov.

Klebb, the star of ‘From Russia with Love’, was asked by a brave Martin Brundle if he could have a… chat with Vitaly in the absence of any proper drivers to interview, to which she agreed with quick flick of the head.

Colonel Klebb has been brought in by Renault to keep Petrov company on his long trips away from the Motherland. However, team staff were concerned to see her putting her poison-tipped knife shoes on after she saw her young charge carelessly bin his car in the gravel trap on lap 18

Sunday, March 28th, 2010
Tags: Martin Brundle, Renault, Vitaly Petrov
Posted in 28 March – Australia, Renault-2010 | Renault employ minder to keep an eye on Petrov.

Bahrain, Sunday: It’s official, modern day F1 drivers are a big bunch of softies.

Many F1 fans enjoy seeing the drivers on the grid just before the start of a race, getting ready and giving last minute interviews to the likes of Martin Brundle.

However, before the start of the snore-fest that was the Bahrain… Grand Prix, nearly all of the drivers were in the pitlane or their garages, taking part in a bizarre protest.

Apparently the drivers are miffed that due to a restriction on the number of people cluttering up the place, their personal trainers/physios/umbrella holding lickspittles are not allowed to be on the grid, meaning that the poor lambs are separated from their butlers for up to 10 minutes.

Maybe these overpaid, spoilt, pampered softies ought to take a leaf out of a certain 80 year old racer’s book, who’s major annoyance at falling down a 50 ft lift shaft is that having to take it easy for a bit was proving ‘a bit of a bore’.

Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Tags: Bahrain Grand Prix, Martin Brundle
Posted in 14 March – Bahrain | Bahrain, Sunday: It’s official, modern day F1 drivers are a big bunch of softies.

Bernie Ecclestone on 2010 - video

From the team that brought you the US F1 story (see ‘Letter from America’) it’s Tailenders and Martin Brundle interviews Bernie Ecclestone.

Friday, February 5th, 2010
Tags: Bernie Ecclestone, Martin Brundle
Posted in TEAMS AND DRIVERS | Bernie Ecclestone on 2010 - video

Brundle shocks early morning Britain

F1 viewers in the UK, struggling to cope with the 5am start for the Japanese Grand Prix, spluttered into their tea, when an innocent comment by Nick Heidfeld was seized upon by a naughty Martin Brundle, complete with accompanying hand… gestures.

Under fire BBC executives were just relieved that there were no children or pensioners up at that time of the morning.

Somebody else who has trouble with his ‘R’s

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Tags: BBC, F1, Japanese Grand Prix, Martin Brundle, Nick Heidfeld, Suzuka
Posted in Japan F1 | Brundle shocks early morning Britain

It’s the Eddie Jordan Show

For some reason, the BBC decided that Spa had to be all about Eddie Jordan, who was allowed far more air time than is sensible to give an Irishman with an opinion. First, the nation, sitting down to Sunday lunch, had to endure him in his trunks, belly flopping into Rubens Barrichello’s pool before there was much buddy-buddy back slapping over a game of golf.

Add in the fact that one of ‘his’ drivers (did he mention that?) came second in the race driving a car from ‘his’ old team, only prevented from winning by ‘his’ pet hate of KER’s and you had EJ meltdown time.

After the race Jordan, plainly keen to try and take some credit for his old team’s success, was all smiles with Vijay Mallya, despite having dumped ten tons of concrete on the Force India driveway last year because of a dispute between the two. Normally Irishmen want to help you fix your drive, not wreck it but there you go.

More amusement was to come in the BBC post-race show from McLaren’s motorhome, when EJ suddenly announced that one of his ears had stopped working, only for Martin Brundle to helpfully suggest he tried using the other one, as he had two.

By this stage, Eddie had plainly had enough of his big day and seemed to doze off, dropping and breaking his microphone.

Thank goodness for small mercies…

Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Tags: Belgian Grand Prix, Force India, KERS, Martin Brundle, McLaren-2009, Rubens Barrichello, Spa, Vijay Mallya
Posted in Belgium F1 | It’s the Eddie Jordan Show