Watch moment Martin Brundle divides fans with F1 grid walk that gave ‘second hand embarrassment just watching it’
MARTIN BRUNDLE had some fans crying their hearts out with an pun-laden grid walk but others were willing to Roll With It.
Iconic Manchester band Oasis are returning in 2025 – 15 years since their acrimonious split.
And Brundle decided to jump aboard the hype train when describing Lando Norris starting from pole position at the Italian Grand Prix.
The Sky Sports veteran crammed 10 references into a 53-second clip which may have a few tabloid headline writers reaching for their notebooks.
Some fans didn’t think Brundle hit the right notes – although the criticism did not reach the same levels as Ticketmaster came in for yesterday.
One wrote: “The #MartinBrundle grid walk is so cringe. I get second hand embarrassment just watching it.”
A second posted: “Brundle’s Oasis puns are as flat as someone who didn’t get tickets yesterday. Please, don’t bother.”
Plenty of fans were on board with Brundle’s effort, however.
One said: “Superb work from Martin Brundle there, working multiple #Oasis tracks into his pit walk intro. Excellent stuff.”
Another added: “Did Martin Brundle just quote half of Oasis’s discography in 3 sentences talking about Lando Norris’s race starts on the grid.”
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A third wrote: “Martin Brundle is a national treasure.”
A fourth commented: “That was definitely one of Martin Brundle’s best gridwalks of the season, so far. Alesi, Berger, Martin’s Random People and a lot of happy & cheery personalities. #ItalianGP Not only is the Monza Circuit a phenomenal venue, but the atmosphere is incredible, too.”
Mercedes confirmed Lewis Hamilton’s replacement ahead of today’s race.
Kimi Antonelli, who drove a Formula One car competitively for the first time this weekend, will take the seven-time world champion’s seat in 2025.
Hamilton announced the bombshell news he was leaving Mercedes to join Ferrari in 2025 at the start of the season.
A Mercedes statement said: “Introducing to the stage… Andrea Kimi Antonelli and George Russell.
“Today, the team is announcing its 2025 driver line-up, with 18-year-old Italian Kimi joining multiple Grand Prix-winner George behind the wheel for next season.
“Kimi will make the step up from F2 and graduate from the team’s junior programme, just like a certain George Russell, who made the jump up to F1 in 2019 after a superb two-year junior spell with us.”
Antonelli suffered a huge crash during a practice session in Italy.
Oasis - The Gallagher Feud Timeline
Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher have a long history of ongoing fights - both physical and verbal - here's the full history of the band and what they've said to each other.
1991 – Liam Gallagher forms Oasis with Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll, later asking Noel to join.
1993 – The band sign to Creation Records and start work on their debut album.
August 1994 – Oasis shoot to fame with their debut album, Definitely Maybe, with tracks including Rock n Roll Star, Live Forever and Supersonic. It’s one of the fastest selling debuts ever for a British band.
September 1994 – Noel temporarily leaves the band’s tour after Liam smacks him in the face with a tambourine on stage in Los Angeles.
1995 – The band release their second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? which features Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Champagne Supernova.
1996 – Liam is forced to sit out a leg of tour shows due to laryngitis, but causes chaos when he was filmed heckling his brother from a balcony while a taping of MTV Unplugged.
2000 – Noel quits the band temporarily for a second time when, while partying in Barcelona, Liam riles Noel by questioning if his daughter, Anais, is actually his. The pair get into a fist fight.
2005 – Noel tells Q Magazine that he’s ‘never forgiven’ Liam for his comments about Anais and he’s ‘never apologised. He tells the mag: “He’s my brother. I hope he’s reading this and realises that. He’s my brother but he’s at arm’s length until he apologises for what he’s done.”
2009 – Noel admits in an interview with Q that he ‘doesn’t like Liam’, branding him “rude, arrogant, intimidating, and lazy”. “He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet,” he added. “He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”
Liam later retaliates and tells NME: “It takes more than blood to be my brother. He doesn’t like me and I don’t like him.”
August 23, 2009 – Oasis pull out of a headline slot at V Festival in the UK due to Liam having laryngitis.
August 28, 2009 – Ahead of the Rock en Seine festival, Noel and Liam get into another fight, during which time Liam breaks one of Noel’s guitars after “waving it like an axe” according to Noel.
August 28, 2009 – Noel quits the band for the third and final time, saying in a statement: “It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”
2010 – Oasis win ‘best album of the last 30 years’ at the Brit Awards for (What’s the Story) Morning Glory. Liam picks up the gong, and thanks everyone except Noel. He later says this was misinterpreted as a dig.
2011 – Liam tries to sue Noel after he claims in the interview they cancelled their V Festival performance due to Liam being hungover. Liam disputed it said the comment “questioned my professionalism”. He later apologised and the lawsuit was dropped.
2011 – Noel admits regrets at quitting before the Paris gig, telling Absolute Radio and admits if he did “we may never have split up.”
2011 – 2014 – Liam and the other bandmates continue under new name, Beady Eye, while Noel forms new band, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
2015 – After years of jabs online, especially through media and Twitter, Liam teases he’s buried the hatchet with Noel by sharing an All Areas pass from a High Flying Birds gig. However, the fight would recommence two months later after Noel publicly dismissed suggestion Oasis would reunite for Glastonbury 2016.
2017 – Liam performs at Manchester’s One Love concert after the bombing at Ariana Grande’s show, with Don’t Look Back In Anger becoming a unifying anthem for the incident. He then slams Noel for not attending. Noel later tells Sunday Times: “Young music fan were slaughtered, and he, twice, takes it somewhere to be about him. He needs to see somebody.”
2018 – Liam suggests a reunion for the 2018 World Cup on Twitter, writing: “let’s get the big O back together and stop f***ing about the drinks are on me”. When it fell on deaf ears, he added: “I’ll take that as a NO then.”
2019 – Noel speaks out after Liam sends ‘threatening messages’ to Anais after a comment made about then wife Sara McDonald. Liam later apologises publicly to Anais.
2020 – Liam urges Noel to reunite for a one-off charity gig.