the story goes that right after his crash, Martin ran back to the pits, told Ken Tyrrell that he was all right, and entered the spare car. After the mechanics had fired the car up, poor Martin asked Ken Tyrrell "eeeh - tell me again, what track am I on, and do I have to turn left or right when I leave the garage?" - that was the moment Ken Tyrrell reached into Martin's Cockpit and switched the engine off.
Ken Tyrrell was a good man, probably the most down to earth team boss F1 ever had and one who always looked after his drivers. Look through the years and Tyrrell only ever lost one driver (Cevert) which you can tell affected his attitude with Martin. What happened in '84 with them being fined and disqualified because they wouldn't go along with rules to make the turbos more powerful was disgraceful. Balestre and the other teams stitched them up and punished them when they hadn't done anything against the rules. Tyrrell never fully recovered from that. In the Piranha club good people always get screwed over.
@@suhaimifariz2713 I don't think so. Stewart and Jordan GP were successful teams. Now they are respectively Red Bull Racing and (from 2021 onwards) Aston Martin Racing...
@@GeriatricFan1963 mad respect, Brundle clearly had a concussion and while at the time nearly everyone would have told him to shake it off and maybe given some smelling salts Ken Tyrell said 'No, youre not racing"
Martin was already well spoken even as a young lad, he was destined to be a commentator. Destiny allowed him be a driver first to supplement his commentating career.
Ryan José Razo He actually commentated with Murray in San Marino 1995 as well as Germany in Hockenheim and Japan in Aida of that year. So it was 11 years after this interview. But 11 years is a long long time in anybody's life journey.
Martin Brundle had an enourmous crash at the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix Brundle broke his ankles and both feet and was forced to miss the rest of the season while he recuperated; the severity of the damage to Brundle's left ankle initially led doctors to consider amputating his entire foot. Soon after this, the three pedal assembly made way for hand clutches, and only two pedals. He was never able to use his weak left foot to brake, so had to accelerate and brake with his right foot. This massive disadvantage is what ultimately held him back in Formula 1, despite his earlier racing career being exceedingly promising, coming second only to a young Ayrton Senna. Though teams recognised his innate ability and racecraft, he was denied a top drive due to this inability to left foot brake, and thusly only ever had 9 podiums in a 158-start career.
thanks i hate it and let's not forget, that he only lost the formula 3 Championship because Ayrton Senna cheated and drove into him landing on top of the car. He knew that if Martin had won that race he would have been F3 champion, and Senna couldn't stomach that, so on the corner, instead of performing an overtake properly, he just drove into the side of Martins car and went up onto the roof. The championship was decided by one point. Senna would go on to do that and make a habit of it in Formula 1.
He had to do both braking and accelerating with his right foot?It is crazy how he still managed to (kinda) keep up with Schumacher who usually used two pedals at the same time.
Paul Baker and that was after putting his car over after a huge accident, which could have done serious spinal damage if it got broken bones in his neck. Trying to take a drivers helmet off until you know the extent of the injuries is a bit of a dumb thing to do. They should have all got a rollicking.
he was considered for the williams drive in 93 but damon hill got the drive. brundle would have won alot of races if he got that drive and maybe a championship or two!
Show some fucking respect! He came 2nd in British Formula 3 only behind Ayrton Senna and he won Le Mans as well! Just because he didn't have a very successful run of cars doesn't mean you should say that he was a shit driver!
MegaCellProductions and he only came second in F3 because senna cheated and drove into him landing on brundles car in the process. That says a lot more about Ayrton Senna, who's just nothing but a huge cheat.
Greaser5550 don't seem to remember seeing your name on any top 10 driver lists, or seeing you driving any Formula One cars and winning. Sorry, did I say winning? I meant driving any Formula 1 cars. Sorry, did I say driving any Formula 1 car? I meant driving any open-top Formula Ford van diemen junior class. With 120 horsepower. And even then you would come last and get slaughtered. Just to get to formula one is not easy. Not everyone can make it. And staying in it is even harder. Why do you think team after team after team signed Martin in 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87.. ...91,92,93,94,95,96.. Including Ron Dennis at McLaren. So obviously Ron Dennis didn't think he was shit. Big men walk the walk. So until you can do it, you can't call someone else shit.
@RoadhogTime13 5 podiums, 5 retirements. Schumacher, greatest of all-time according to many, 8 podiums, 4 retirements. Don't think he did that badly in the B192. In fact he was probably closer to Michael than any other teammate until Michael made sure they all had number 2 status to him.
The benetton b192 was a good car! lacked in power a bit. If i remember right schumacher won in spa in that car? and brundle got a few podiums But was still way off the williams pace. Although on your berger/alesi point they did have great cars in 97. Also frentzen did too.
Although Schumacher said he only won that race because he was behind Brundle, noticed Brundle's tyres starting to grain and timed a pit stop perfectly.
TheShepster80 Martin Brundle would have won that race in Spa if you haven't come in for tyres, by mistake. He regretted that for the rest of his life. If it stayed out he would have won the race, but he didn't know that at the time.. He was leading at the British Grand Prix, and only had a few laps to go when he's engine blew up. That cost him another win. Look how long it took Jenson Button to win a race, it took him years! He wasn't a shit driver. And he proved that in 2009.
Those driver you mention all had top drives at 1 point or another. all had race winning cars. brundle never really had that. If he had the williams drive in 93 which was by far the best! he would have been in with a shout. Brundle was a beast behind the wheel. Ok he wasn't really a match for schumacher (his team mate at benetton) but as it turns out not many could match him. But what im saying is in the williams of that era. I don't believe damon hill was any better than martin brundle.
Why would the crowd cheer when a car crashed into the barriers? That's a bad thing! Martin Brundle could've been killed in that accident! But fortunately, he did survive the accident. Thank god for safer barriers nowadays!
BORIS JEFFERSON especially if his neck was broken, could have caused serious spinal injury. It was a stupid thing to do. Marshalls didn't have the training then that they have now.
No they didn't! Just because you do t like him, don't presume that other F1 members don't. I don't think F1 has seen a more honest and humble man for years!
OMG. Keyboard Warriors strike again. So easy to be critical behind your monitor. And your comment is so far off the mark it says more about the person YOU are than what you have said. Get a grip sunshine!
"he thinks knows everything" 8+ years racing in F1, Le mans and world sportscars winner and closely involved in F1 through commentating to this day, perhaps not everything but a hell of allot more than you chap.
the story goes that right after his crash, Martin ran back to the pits, told Ken Tyrrell that he was all right, and entered the spare car. After the mechanics had fired the car up, poor Martin asked Ken Tyrrell "eeeh - tell me again, what track am I on, and do I have to turn left or right when I leave the garage?" - that was the moment Ken Tyrrell reached into Martin's Cockpit and switched the engine off.
Ken Tyrrell was a good man, probably the most down to earth team boss F1 ever had and one who always looked after his drivers. Look through the years and Tyrrell only ever lost one driver (Cevert) which you can tell affected his attitude with Martin. What happened in '84 with them being fined and disqualified because they wouldn't go along with rules to make the turbos more powerful was disgraceful. Balestre and the other teams stitched them up and punished them when they hadn't done anything against the rules. Tyrrell never fully recovered from that. In the Piranha club good people always get screwed over.
Edward Hunter But that team is now Mercedes F1
@@Sciusciamaccu Only by coincidence.
@@suhaimifariz2713 I don't think so. Stewart and Jordan GP were successful teams. Now they are respectively Red Bull Racing and (from 2021 onwards) Aston Martin Racing...
@@GeriatricFan1963 mad respect, Brundle clearly had a concussion and while at the time nearly everyone would have told him to shake it off and maybe given some smelling salts Ken Tyrell said 'No, youre not racing"
His voice hasn't changed a bit. Awesome.
Martin was already well spoken even as a young lad, he was destined to be a commentator. Destiny allowed him be a driver first to supplement his commentating career.
To think, he would partner Murray Walker on the commentary box thirteen years later.
Ryan José Razo He actually commentated with Murray in San Marino 1995 as well as Germany in Hockenheim and Japan in Aida of that year. So it was 11 years after this interview. But 11 years is a long long time in anybody's life journey.
Martin Brundle had an enourmous crash at the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix Brundle broke his ankles and both feet and was forced to miss the rest of the season while he recuperated; the severity of the damage to Brundle's left ankle initially led doctors to consider amputating his entire foot.
Soon after this, the three pedal assembly made way for hand clutches, and only two pedals. He was never able to use his weak left foot to brake, so had to accelerate and brake with his right foot. This massive disadvantage is what ultimately held him back in Formula 1, despite his earlier racing career being exceedingly promising, coming second only to a young Ayrton Senna.
Though teams recognised his innate ability and racecraft, he was denied a top drive due to this inability to left foot brake, and thusly only ever had 9 podiums in a 158-start career.
thanks i hate it and let's not forget, that he only lost the formula 3 Championship because Ayrton Senna cheated and drove into him landing on top of the car.
He knew that if Martin had won that race he would have been F3 champion, and Senna couldn't stomach that, so on the corner, instead of performing an overtake properly, he just drove into the side of Martins car and went up onto the roof.
The championship was decided by one point.
Senna would go on to do that and make a habit of it in Formula 1.
I thought that most drivers these days do right foot braking, or is that only since the switch to hand operated clutch pedals?
He had to do both braking and accelerating with his right foot?It is crazy how he still managed to (kinda) keep up with Schumacher who usually used two pedals at the same time.
Martin Brundle, in my opinion, was the greatest driver to have never won anything in Formula 1. He had an uncanny ability of being naturally gifted.
Jackal Fox won anything as in never won a race? Or a championship?
Greaser5550 Patrese wasn't hopeless. 💀💀💀We know wheeere u arre JK D: 😂😂😂
Stefan Johansson and Eddie Cheever were close though.
Greaser5550 We need Brundle to tow you in an F1 car whilst you're in a shopping cart.
@Greaser5550 Yeah nothing except a World Sportscar Championship at its peak. And he ran that Senna chap quite close in F3...
I love the way he still has exactly the same voice.
Funny I still have the same voice as I did back in 84 too
"I can remember two or three guys around me, tugging away on my helmet"
Paul Baker and that was after putting his car over after a huge accident, which could have done serious spinal damage if it got broken bones in his neck.
Trying to take a drivers helmet off until you know the extent of the injuries is a bit of a dumb thing to do. They should have all got a rollicking.
@@RB747domme Safety of the 80s man
Happend right in front of my eyes, sitting with my mum on the Tabac grandstand. I was 12 and obviously quite thrilled.
he was considered for the williams drive in 93 but damon hill got the drive. brundle would have won alot of races if he got that drive and maybe a championship or two!
He would not have beaten Prost - but he would have given him fits.
Show some fucking respect! He came 2nd in British Formula 3 only behind Ayrton Senna and he won Le Mans as well! Just because he didn't have a very successful run of cars doesn't mean you should say that he was a shit driver!
MegaCellProductions and he only came second in F3 because senna cheated and drove into him landing on brundles car in the process.
That says a lot more about Ayrton Senna, who's just nothing but a huge cheat.
Brindle is my favorite English commentator. I love his veteran driver insights.
1:05 Best cough ever! I always apologise after coughing as well, good on Martin.
13 years after this interview
They become partners in commentary box
So young!
The greatest F1 commentator of all time being interviewed by Murray Walker
1.Murray 2.Martin
Back when it was just “getting your bell rung”....now it’s obvious he had a concussion. They were as tough as a $2 steak.
scarily he was the age I am now when this was filmed
Apparently Martin was still unconscious whilst being interviewed by Murray
Is it true Tyrrell were disqualified from the championship that year
@@allthekingshorses7178 Yes. For some serious cheating involving lead shot, secret fuel reservoirs and rocket fuel!
Brundle and Murray, dream team
@smithhehehaha And then 14 years after that, he becomes lead commentator! Think its fair and safe to say, F1 is Brundle's life!
Is it me or does 1984 Martin Brundle look a bit like Marty McFly?
Hello, I come from the future to tell you that, yes, he does look a lot like him.
It's not Martin Brundle, it's Marty Brundle! LOL
@c6gav michael schumacher fan by any chance? seen the same comment from you on 3 MB videos
Great driver, never really had a decent car.
Greaser5550 don't seem to remember seeing your name on any top 10 driver lists, or seeing you driving any Formula One cars and winning.
Sorry, did I say winning? I meant driving any Formula 1 cars.
Sorry, did I say driving any Formula 1 car? I meant driving any open-top Formula Ford van diemen junior class. With 120 horsepower.
And even then you would come last and get slaughtered.
Just to get to formula one is not easy. Not everyone can make it. And staying in it is even harder. Why do you think team after team after team signed Martin in 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87.. ...91,92,93,94,95,96..
Including Ron Dennis at McLaren. So obviously Ron Dennis didn't think he was shit.
Big men walk the walk. So until you can do it, you can't call someone else shit.
@RoadhogTime13 5 podiums, 5 retirements. Schumacher, greatest of all-time according to many, 8 podiums, 4 retirements. Don't think he did that badly in the B192. In fact he was probably closer to Michael than any other teammate until Michael made sure they all had number 2 status to him.
Or better than any of the drivers that you mentioned. And hill won a championship. Thats how i personally see it.
How did Sid say “yeah he’s fine” the man was unconscious and has memory loss.
Lmao Marty McFly
Marty McFly
The marshall,s didn,t show martin brundle much love when they tiped him back over..!! Did they..!! They mush be use to watching him crash are they..??
Maybe brundle would have won it after prosts retirement. Who knows what could have been. Its just my thoughts.
The benetton b192 was a good car! lacked in power a bit. If i remember right schumacher won in spa in that car? and brundle got a few podiums But was still way off the williams pace. Although on your berger/alesi point they did have great cars in 97. Also frentzen did too.
Although Schumacher said he only won that race because he was behind Brundle, noticed Brundle's tyres starting to grain and timed a pit stop perfectly.
TheShepster80 Martin Brundle would have won that race in Spa if you haven't come in for tyres, by mistake. He regretted that for the rest of his life. If it stayed out he would have won the race, but he didn't know that at the time..
He was leading at the British Grand Prix, and only had a few laps to go when he's engine blew up. That cost him another win.
Look how long it took Jenson Button to win a race, it took him years! He wasn't a shit driver. And he proved that in 2009.
Those driver you mention all had top drives at 1 point or another. all had race winning cars. brundle never really had that. If he had the williams drive in 93 which was by far the best! he would have been in with a shout. Brundle was a beast behind the wheel. Ok he wasn't really a match for schumacher (his team mate at benetton) but as it turns out not many could match him. But what im saying is in the williams of that era. I don't believe damon hill was any better than martin brundle.
He wasn't a match because of his ankle though.
No one wants 3 guys tugging at your helmet, can never be too careful when you're SEMI-conscious.
@GeriatricFan1963 at 1:05 check out the veins on his right hand! weird!
Why would the crowd cheer when a car crashed into the barriers? That's a bad thing! Martin Brundle could've been killed in that accident! But fortunately, he did survive the accident. Thank god for safer barriers nowadays!
Billy Bishop They cheered because he was okay.....
+Billy Bishop Wow. You don't know much about racing, do you?
that SENNA 1st race
hair!
Would you look at the car...the driver's hand was out of the chasis! How times have change. That car wouldn't have passed today's regulation
@mikeskinna I'm not surprised he didn't want men tugging at his helmet... LOL plus "he's going to come and have another look later on" haha
@lmali1985 only a bit. :)
"marty" brundle more than "martin".
Why were they tugging at his helmet, thats taking advantage of a semi-Conscious man.
BORIS JEFFERSON especially if his neck was broken, could have caused serious spinal injury. It was a stupid thing to do.
Marshalls didn't have the training then that they have now.
If you give martin brundle a fucking mk4 cortina to drive he would end up crashing that..!!
c6gav Funny how he got podiums in cars Hakkinen won no races in and Schumacher.....1!
@mikeskinna hahaha
Michael J Fox
Yeah can't drive. That's why he's won lemans more than once. He is much better in closed cockpit cars mind you.
Could not drive pigs to market people...!!
c6gav Was a lot closer to Michael in points than Patrese.
c6gav you are such a troll.
He,s a joke..!! deal with it..!!
I wanna stick to playstations F1 He could not drive pigs to market this guy..!!
Lol a youtube nobody calling a multi millionaire.
I see you posted these remarks 9 years ago. Perhaps your mum & dad have finished the job off now, and you know now how to behave.
Martin brundle crash whats new..!! he could,t drive pigs to market..!!
And this is the guy who comment about drivers and he thinks knows everything. At least Murray and Hunt knew this guy is awful.
#hatebrundle
No they didn't! Just because you do t like him, don't presume that other F1 members don't. I don't think F1 has seen a more honest and humble man for years!
OMG. Keyboard Warriors strike again. So easy to be critical behind your monitor. And your comment is so far off the mark it says more about the person YOU are than what you have said. Get a grip sunshine!
"he thinks knows everything" 8+ years racing in F1, Le mans and world sportscars winner and closely involved in F1 through commentating to this day, perhaps not everything but a hell of allot more than you chap.
David Fernandez sore much?
PS3GameProductions Brundle outqualified Barichello at 39 and was the closest teammate to Schumacher points wise.
Back when it was just “getting your bell rung”....now it’s obvious he had a concussion. They were as tough as a $2 steak.