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  • Опубліковано 20 лют 2022
  • Martin Brundle faces the prospect of driving the wrong way towards Formula 1® cars in his 80s Brabham BT58 Judd: his scariest moment in motorsport
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  • @royston0157
    @royston0157 2 роки тому +119

    I could listen to Martin all day. Vast knowledge of motorsport & some great stories to be told

    • @Coverly
      @Coverly Місяць тому +8

      Was going to say something similar, but since you've done it so eloquently, I've nothing further to add. 😃

    • @user-sw2ob4iw1m
      @user-sw2ob4iw1m Місяць тому +6

      A criminally unerrated driver too.

    • @jacobmassey3897
      @jacobmassey3897 Місяць тому

      But I think it's fair to say that he is out of touch with everything that has happened with F1 technology over the last 10 years

    • @leftmono1016
      @leftmono1016 Місяць тому +3

      ⁠@@jacobmassey3897- I don’t think it is fair to say that. Maybe except for drivers and team members, he knows as much about modern tech as anyone else.

    • @gold333
      @gold333 28 днів тому

      There is no one I respect more today in motorsports than Martin Brundle

  • @nervo6321
    @nervo6321 5 місяців тому +65

    Your cartwheel in a Jordan in Australia was no picnic either.

    • @nathanwilliams2152
      @nathanwilliams2152 Місяць тому +6

      Neither was Suzuka 1994. Drivers dreaded racing those ‘94 cars in the wet. Morbidelli went off, and a big crane / truck went to recover his car. Brundle then spun off at the same corner, and just missed the track vehicle. Had he hit it, it could have been a situation similar to Jules Bianchi. Instead, he hit Morbidelli’s car, which was of similar dimensions and was deformable.

    • @nathanwilliams2152
      @nathanwilliams2152 Місяць тому

      Neither was Suzuka 1994. Drivers dreaded racing those ‘94 cars in the wet. Morbidelli went off, and a big crane / truck went to recover his car. Brundle then spun off at the same corner, and just missed the track vehicle. Had he hit it, it could have been a situation similar to Jules Bianchi. Instead, he hit Morbidelli’s car, which was of similar dimensions and was deformable.

    • @dannycolverson6944
      @dannycolverson6944 Місяць тому

      But no time to be scared.... '89 lots of time

    • @theiceman7590
      @theiceman7590 Місяць тому

      ​@@nathanwilliams2152worse than that, he hit a marshall and broke his leg.

    • @lukas_jay243
      @lukas_jay243 25 днів тому +1

      Didn't Martin also have a close one with getting collected by a Verstappen Irvine incident in 94 as well?

  • @etclarke
    @etclarke 5 місяців тому +21

    Murray Walker would be so proud of Martin. He is his true protégée and as far as I am concerned his equal in terms of reporting for F1. Thankyou MB

    • @jamesanthony4034
      @jamesanthony4034 Місяць тому +1

      He's now sadly past it.
      Sky's woke coverage is abysmal, and he's either lost it, or he's towing their woke PC line.

    • @Beef7599
      @Beef7599 Місяць тому

      ​@@jamesanthony4034what 🤣

  • @JosephKang
    @JosephKang 2 роки тому +59

    I'd love to see and hear more of Martin's stories. Thanks for sharing these with us!

  • @Aaron-ed5xs
    @Aaron-ed5xs Рік тому +22

    Brundle drips class, and I would NOT watch F1 without him. He's the only commentator in the world that I can say makes the sport for me.

    • @caprirosso3
      @caprirosso3 Місяць тому +2

      You're right. He's the last link between what we've got now and the good old days.

    • @muzmason3064
      @muzmason3064 Місяць тому

      I watched from '72 with Murray then James Hunt joined him, with his in depth knowledge whilst watching Martin on track , I also delivered that blue benetton paint to Pro-Drive 😅 but he is now so learned, I love his calmer approach as radio machine gun commentary whilst watching i find gets to me a bit , a little silence is a good thing now and then when commentating as the action does speak for itself.

  • @antmax
    @antmax Місяць тому +18

    I always switch my F1 TV coverage to International Commentary because Brundle and Crofty are so much better than the new kids on the block.

    • @goodhorsehymn
      @goodhorsehymn Місяць тому

      Brundle is brilliant, but so is the Jacques and Palmer commentary team. Feel blessed to have both as options to be honest.

  • @pouyan225
    @pouyan225 Рік тому +19

    Martin Brundle is a legend, yet a humble and very respectful person. I love listening to his stories.

  • @derekfaeberwick
    @derekfaeberwick 2 місяці тому +17

    I don't think the *kids watching F1 these realise just how skilled and brave ALL you guys were Martin.

    • @driftingonvirtualether
      @driftingonvirtualether Місяць тому

      True. I started watching this year. And saw some old laps, and heard stories from friends and old fans. Realised I'm born too late 😢

  • @Q3Wdoncarlos
    @Q3Wdoncarlos 2 роки тому +17

    I could listen to Martin's stories all day - amazing and he does them such justice with how well he remembers them and with his language
    More please :)

  • @ridetheblinds8425
    @ridetheblinds8425 11 місяців тому +4

    Legend. Me and my dad met Martin at his book signing in 2004. Signed his book and also two prints of his that my dad had brought along. Such a lovely guy and as is Johnny Herbert, what you see is what you get. Two of the most genuine guys in motorsport you could meet.

  • @CX0909
    @CX0909 Місяць тому +4

    Martin is becoming a legend at the gridwalk as well.

  • @zildog
    @zildog Рік тому +6

    I was 12 years old and there that day. I'll never forget it - even more so now having listened to Martin explain what happened to him personally.
    Definitely one of the craziest races in the 10 years we had F1.

  • @marcmccomiskey
    @marcmccomiskey 2 роки тому +7

    Excellent Alex. Need more of your old man talking about himself rather than others.
    Followed F1 when Martin was racing and when he moved into the box with the brilliant Murray.
    Through many great and also many predictable seasons, Martin was the sole reason I kept with F1. I would have surely drifted away had it not been for his expert analysis of what's really going on.
    Also met him at Monaco in 2013 coming from the comm box after the race, I nervously approached him hoping I hadn't caught him on a bad day, but he was a total gentleman.
    Martin is as important and vital to motorsport as any great champion I've ever watched in over 30 years.

  • @GabeClendenning
    @GabeClendenning Місяць тому +1

    How am I just finding MB’s own UA-cam channel!? Awesome stuff.

  • @jaredbawden6707
    @jaredbawden6707 Місяць тому

    Thankyou Martin for bringing that perspective to the incident. I was only 8 at the time and never considered the emotion Senna was carrying from the previous grand prix in Japan (which I also watched) nor the fact you'd had a spin the lap before and were pacing the car.
    I came to the track with my family the day before for qualifying, which was a typically warm, sunny November day here in Adelaide. Couldn't believe how horrible the weather turned the next day. The whole city was being pounded with rain. We watch it all unfold on TV at home.

  • @user-qf8bw5lw5f
    @user-qf8bw5lw5f Місяць тому +1

    Hi Martin, Thank you for this video, really interesting. I was in the crowd that day and it was just crazy. Here in Adelaide we get stuff all rain and yet in 89 and again 91 it poured. What an era of F1 and in my opinion, back when F1 had soul. Thank you.

  • @ernestomartinez4090
    @ernestomartinez4090 Місяць тому +1

    That day under a pouring rain...it was the best race of his entire life in Formula One by japanese driver Satoru Nakajima with his Lotus 101 Judd. He started the race way back on the grid on P23. By the end of the race Nakajima was on P4 and fighting for P3 and podium position against Riccardo Patrese's Williams Renault. Satoru Nakajima got the fastest lap of the race that day which was his only fastest lap of his entire career in Formula One. Satoru was without a doubt the driver of the day on that awful race at Adelaide 1989.

  • @NicolasSoto19
    @NicolasSoto19 Місяць тому +1

    I had no idea that Martin Brundle had a UA-cam channel, until now. Going to subscribe now and enjoy this video.

  • @CsabaKissColorado
    @CsabaKissColorado 2 роки тому +2

    What a great story teller. Instant subscribe. Please, keep'em, coming!

  • @mikhailfonin9640
    @mikhailfonin9640 2 роки тому +1

    Great video! Keep it up guys

  • @iandone5926
    @iandone5926 Місяць тому

    Such a great video.. now subscribed and enjoying the back catalogue... thanks Martin for you experiences.. you are the best!

  • @LindsayWells
    @LindsayWells 2 роки тому +2

    This is fantastic, would love to see more. Martin is amazing

  • @Perfectlyhonest22
    @Perfectlyhonest22 Місяць тому +3

    Is that a model of a 79 Ferrari T4 behind Martin?

  • @ryanmusic5553
    @ryanmusic5553 Місяць тому +1

    Not the crash in Melbourne left him upside down with the car broken in half. Like a gangster he made the restart in the T-car

  • @richardearth2848
    @richardearth2848 2 роки тому +5

    It was scary from my parents sofa that day too!! At least Ayrton didnt land on top of you . That would never happen 😉👍

  • @user-jg6vi4cd7v
    @user-jg6vi4cd7v Рік тому

    My Favorite F1 Legend MR MB ! keep doing what you do!! So WELL!

  • @czajla
    @czajla Місяць тому

    I was lucky to meet Martin in Brno (Czechoslovakia) during group C race back in 1988. I talked with him for about a minute, he marked gearchange points on track layout and signed it. Very nice memory.

  • @Gravattack
    @Gravattack Місяць тому

    MB is just a class act

  • @chas1759
    @chas1759 Місяць тому

    Great article

  • @captaintoyota3171
    @captaintoyota3171 Рік тому

    Read his book and would listen to him talk for hrs. I hope you release an longform version of this exchange after all clips are uploaded

  • @cobar5342
    @cobar5342 Місяць тому

    He gives a very detailed account ,with clarifying context, of a frightening event so very long ago, as though it was last month.

  • @CasperEgas
    @CasperEgas 4 місяці тому +2

    Great story. Love Brundle as a racer and as a commentator. Just a shame that his team of commentators isn't that great anymore.

  • @JeffSherlock
    @JeffSherlock Місяць тому

    Hello, Martin. Very happy you are still around.

  • @kevinmccorkle7476
    @kevinmccorkle7476 Місяць тому

    Great driver, but he seems so humble and down to earth.

  • @CarswithBrad
    @CarswithBrad 2 роки тому +2

    Loved listening to this…

  • @martindooley4439
    @martindooley4439 2 роки тому +2

    Cracking first hand content. Really brings the human element in. Hopefully you can do some content on the Jaguar era. I mean the Castrol one is in shot 😉

    • @BrundleBTW
      @BrundleBTW  2 роки тому +2

      ‘How to win Le Mans’ may or may not be next

  • @eddieconroy212
    @eddieconroy212 Рік тому

    I remember watching that race. There was so much going on, car’s spinning and crashing, drivers complaining about the conditions and other drivers just getting on with it. Boutsen came through in the Williams to win after he has spun as well.

  • @CCMason
    @CCMason 2 роки тому +2

    Such an insane story! 😱

  • @hernanhernandez3861
    @hernanhernandez3861 Місяць тому

    Right. Back in the day when there were different tire manufacturers... I remember this race.

  • @arthurteo8111
    @arthurteo8111 5 місяців тому

    A True Racing Legend.

  • @user-xe9hr1nu3f
    @user-xe9hr1nu3f Місяць тому

    I remember that race . That must of been unbelievably scary.

  • @danum442
    @danum442 Місяць тому

    Awesome story x

  • @lukas_jay243
    @lukas_jay243 25 днів тому

    Honestly thought Martin was the best pundit in British sport from 97 through to around 2005. Actually that Adelaide 89 race is well worth watching. Proper conditions.

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 Місяць тому

    I'm surprised yet not surprised by this. I expected the aquaplaning accident at Suzuka 1994 would be number one, given that a, like Bianchi 20 years later, it occurred shortly after another car had crashed at the same Dunlop Corner, but mercifully missed the recovery vehicle, b, while the accident was happening a marshall was run over, breaking the guy's leg and c, despite screaming on the radio that the race needed to be stopped, got fined for the accident (unfairly in my view). But in context, being on the Jack Brabham Straight in Adelaide in torrential rain, aquaplaning and spinning in a straight line, somehow not hitting anything, spinning so many times that you didn't know what direction you're facing, that makes the stomach drop

  • @youcancallmewhip
    @youcancallmewhip 2 роки тому +1

    Yes! More more more!

  • @michaellavery4899
    @michaellavery4899 Місяць тому

    That happened to me coming out of retail estate, under construction, at a roundabout.

  • @VicarOfMayhem
    @VicarOfMayhem Місяць тому

    Props for Martin helping AyrHead to go out of yet another race! LUL

  • @rogeeeferrari
    @rogeeeferrari Місяць тому

    Martins most terrifying racing moment had to be when he hit the track with Schumacher as his teammate...

  • @UK-Blue
    @UK-Blue Місяць тому

    Which way?
    Just drive and hope for the best. 😂

  • @katieblackmore2004
    @katieblackmore2004 4 місяці тому +1

    This guys crash in the Jordan...... My God he is lucky too be here.
    That car flew, landed upside down, went through the gravel trap upside down, and he got out.
    Considering there was no Halo back then.
    In an interview, Martin said he ran too the pits to get in the spare car, i think it was Syd Watkins that looked Martin over, asked if he was alright etc.
    Martin said ''Yeah i'm fine too race............. Oh, what track are we at?''
    And he was told to get out the car haha.
    So concussed yet jacked up on Adrenaline, that you just want to get back out and race, but your head is so f####d you don't even know what country or track you are at.
    These guys have balls of steel.

    • @reptongeek
      @reptongeek Місяць тому

      Martin asked what track he was at when he was at Tyrrell at the Monaco GP. He had just had a monster shunt into Tabac in Practice I think it was
      He did take the restart at Australia in 1996, but spun out again at the first corner

  • @DaleSteel
    @DaleSteel Місяць тому

    I liked Martin Brundles great escapes

  • @kclark0395
    @kclark0395 Місяць тому

    That had to be frightening, sitting there waiting for another car to maybe hit you head on, at speed.

  • @stinkyroadhog1347
    @stinkyroadhog1347 11 місяців тому +1

    That does sound scary though tbh im surprised it wasn't Suzuka 1994

  • @martyndaly1539
    @martyndaly1539 Рік тому +3

    I've been looking for that rear view camera shot for ages!

  • @jamesgoacher1606
    @jamesgoacher1606 Місяць тому

    What about that time at Monza when you slid for a couple of hundred metres upside down coming out of the last turn? As I recall you then got out of the car and because the race had been stopped for some reason you sprented away to get into the reserve car. Bit vaugue as to the other circumstances.

  • @homercles201
    @homercles201 Місяць тому

    I can see why this would be terrifying, but he had some horrendous crashes in his career including the corkscrew crash in Melbourne 1996 or the time Verstappen's (Jos) car landed on his head in Brazil 1994. He was very lucky to walk away from those.

  • @beagle7622
    @beagle7622 2 роки тому +1

    Then he had that crash in Melbourne where he was finding along the safety fence . I think he retired soon after that one.

  • @richardadkins6998
    @richardadkins6998 Місяць тому

    When will we see Martin in a Williams FW14B?

  • @SceneArtisan
    @SceneArtisan Місяць тому +1

    Martin Brundle is THE one and ONLY last of the true F1 people at the forefront of the sport. The day he no longer participates in it, is the day I stop watching it for good; and that will be a truly depressing day.

  • @8-bitsteve500
    @8-bitsteve500 2 роки тому

    Martin, I'd love to hear some stories about my heroes. ie Ken Tyrrell and Francois Cevert.

  • @seamusblack5876
    @seamusblack5876 Місяць тому

    I think senna was a bit mad and wild

  • @evilhomer
    @evilhomer Рік тому +2

    Prost had Balestre in his back pocket so the appeal was never going to succeed.

  • @hyper2high
    @hyper2high Місяць тому

    Martin has had some big wrecks in motorsport

  • @Danielmullen1996
    @Danielmullen1996 2 роки тому +1

    So Michael Schumacher and DC did Senna and you at Spa in 1998 in very similar conditions

    • @jaredbawden6707
      @jaredbawden6707 Місяць тому

      Yeah, but Senna didn't get angry at Brundle for it.

  • @billkent6037
    @billkent6037 Місяць тому

    This race was too wet and should have been abandoned like the same race was in 1991. It's frustrating when a race can't start and we're sitting around with red flags and safety cars but this race in 1989 is probably the best example of why it's better to stop. For 30 laps it was just a total destruction derby with crash after crash until it calmed down when there were only about 6 cars left. Boutsen eventually won for Williams

  • @colinvannurden3090
    @colinvannurden3090 Місяць тому

    I bet Senna needed new underwear when he saw you lol, right before impact...

  • @bmf97ss1
    @bmf97ss1 2 роки тому

    I'm curious to what that red model is sitting behind him? I want to say Ferrari but I dont think he ever drove for them..

  • @sultanabran1
    @sultanabran1 Місяць тому

    classic example of why senna's mentality is great for a punchline 'if you no longer go for a gap......' but in real life, is dumb and flawed. he cost himself a race because he let his emotions take over. and quite a few times over his career.

  • @seanthompson258
    @seanthompson258 Місяць тому +1

    SENNA WAS RIGHT BY THE WAY IF U SEE A REPLAY OF SUZUKA FROM A FRONTAL ANGLE WHICH I HAVE SEEN YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT PROST TURNED IN ON SENNA, SENNA SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE WORLD CHAMPION IT WAS STOLEN FROM SENNA! PROST WAS TO BLAME AND U CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT IN THE FRONTAL REPLAY!!!

  • @phaenius
    @phaenius Місяць тому

    I think Senna also hit Brundle from behind in Canada. Also, Senna's fault.

  • @ProJock
    @ProJock Місяць тому

    Prost is the typical Frenchman. Weak

  • @hugoagogo9435
    @hugoagogo9435 Місяць тому +1

    Somehow I don’t think in 30 years time Lewis will be so enjoyable to listen to. Martin is humble and genuine. And well Lewis isn’t

  • @nathanweinfurtner5203
    @nathanweinfurtner5203 Місяць тому

    Martin is lucky his head is still attached to the rest of his body. I don't remember what race it was, but he's lucky to be alive.

  • @offgrid8445
    @offgrid8445 Місяць тому

    Why didn't someone put him in a top car? Talent in bundles and not showy about it. He is Britains missing F1 World Champion.

  • @alexandergrant4702
    @alexandergrant4702 Місяць тому

    Yada yada yada.. Zzzzzz