It comes up almost every year now. Personally… This feels so easy to fix. Just send someone out in front of Brundle to gauge everyone’s interest, or just tell him to back off a bit when he meets legitimate resistance. Why manufacturer drama like this? The sport just doesn’t need it in my opinion. He had two opportunities to not do what he did this weekend, but he pressed on.
Sure, it’s historical and all. But it just feels a little greasy to essentially force an interview on someone. Who is to say that Brundle can demand someone interview with him? Why are we owed that? I like Brundle and his way of interviewing, but I feel like he needs to be more respectful of those that aren’t there to be interviewed. We don’t own celebrities and no one is owed an interview simply because a celebrity decided to attend a race.
Thoughts?
The grid walk interviews seldom offer anything meaningful. I wouldn’t be upset if they just didn’t happen.
Over this season I’ve migrated over to only watching the F1TV coverage and haven’t switched back to the Sky feed at all anymore. I don’t miss all the awkwardness over on Sky at all and the F1 coverage has caught up on anything that Sky was better at before.
Same. I like the F1TV guys a lot.
I haven’t watched any pre-race coverage for years. I don’t feel like I’m missing out.
Yeah and getting a random actor/actress’ opinion has zero bearing on the race to me, so if said random person doesn’t want to participate, what have we all lost out on? Nothing. We are simply manufacturing controversy here for no reason. Again though, just my opinion.
I think you are all getting it wrong. The content they want is the content they got, on this occasion. The fact that it has gone viral is proof of this.
Martin is a bit less energetic these days than he used to be but he’s knowledgeable enough to know that that was all he was likely to get from that interaction and here we are talking about it.
The worst thing would be to lose the classic British dry wit and not have the sarcasm!
Exactly. I’ve been watching F1 since the 80s but I find the grid walk too cringey to watch. I don’t find it adds anything of value.
Agreed, I intentionally wait until the formation lap and lights out. All that hour long stuff beforehand is basically useless.