Commentating Quotes
Martin Brundle has gained a reputation of some great comments during his F1 coverage. Here are some favourite comments that Martin has made...
(Hamilton gets badly out of shape in Becketts)
"That’s Lewis straight on the radio for new underwear."
"There’s an eight metre difference between each car [on the grid]. Obviously that’s based on the average length of a Formula 1 ego."
"Hacksawing away at the wheel there, as if he’s hanging wallpaper with the window open on a windy day."
"There are about five thousand pieces in that engine, and clearly one of them isn’t happy."
"Those cars look so ugly now with all the bits hanging off the side of them, all the aero bits. They look like somebody got an Airfix model kit for Christmas and lost the instructions. I’ll be very pleased when they get rid of all those dangly bits."
"It’s understeering like a supermarket trolley."
"I remember jumping into a Tyrrell having just crashed one badly in Monte Carlo. Jumped in the car and Ken Tyrrell said, ‘You’ve got eight minutes left to qualify – you need to get on with it’. I said, ‘No problem. Which circuit am I at?’"
(Commenting on a wet race)
"If you ever thought Grand Prix drivers were overpaid, change your mind right now. This is supreme sporting skill and bravery. Two hundred and five miles an hour – cannot even see your own dashboard. All of your senses are in hyper-mode – your eyes are on stalks, you’re listening for when the guy in front lifts the throttle pedal."
"Barrichello looking like he’d forgotten where Turn 1 was."
"Rest assured you are watching some of the finest drivers in the world, if not the finest [but] they all keep falling off the track, and in a way I like it. It’s nice to see the cars moving around: it’s bumpy, the kerbs are nasty, it should be a challenge."
(Jenson gets a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pitlane.)
"At least the Honda’s fast down the pitlane today."
"You read the regulations twice: the first time to see what they say, and the second time to see how you can stretch them to the breaking point."
When you hit the brake pedal there, your stomach carries on."
(Coulthard goes onto the podium wearing a Superman cape because the new movie is sponsoring Red Bull that weekend.)
"There’s a clause in his contract that says the team can’t do anything that brings him into disrepute, and that is close to breaking it, as far as I’m concerned! Luckily he hasn’t got the red pants on."
"I’m expecting the Ferraris to be in a different postcode to the others by the end of the race."
"You can always tell when a driver’s embarrassed – I’ve done it myself – you don’t take your crash helmet off when you get out of the car."
"The only predictable thing about Spa weather is its unpredictability. It seems to have its own personal raincloud."
"Ooh, that would hurt so much when you bottom out – basically your backside is running along the sawtoothed edge of the kerb at 150 miles an hour. That definitely brings tears to your eyes, I can tell you."
"Driving a Formula 1 car round the streets of Monaco, it’s the Everest of the world of motor racing, but when they keep moving the barriers and giving you little curves and plenty of space to breathe, it’s like climbing Everest to find they’ve put a few escalators in on the way up."
"The car looked as predictable as a puppy dog."
(After Massa qualified poorly)
"Massa’s gonna be needing binoculars to see the start lights."
"Michael will give his views of being fastest in Qualifying 1 where he’ll say it’s not really important, it doesn’t affect the weekend, and that’s why he tried so hard when he did it!"
"I don’t see anybody else out in the pitlane drying their pit garage box for their driver. I imagine there’ll be a hundred Ferrari people out there breathing on the first hundred metres to give him a good getaway!"
(Raikkonen’s engine blows but he keeps driving around the track, dropping fluid everywhere.)
"He’ll be about as popular as a toothache if he keeps driving it on the line like that."
"No time to look in the mirrors, and too many cars, not enough tarmac and a lot of early tears."
"It looks a bit like rush hour on the M25 - fortunately they’re all going off at the next junction."
"You can’t see that much in front of you in a Formula 1 car. That’s an odd thing to say - you can see down the road but you’ve got a face full of dashboard really."
"ran out of space and ran out of talent."
These and many more of Martin's F1 quotes can be found at www.brundlequotes.com
