2022 Quotes


BAHRAIN
QUALIFYING

“I was shocked when I read that stat: […] 2006 for this qualifying format!?”

“We’re going to get “mirror wars” as well, in terms of how complex you can make that area around the mirror.”

“In the top five, also known as fifth.”

“You’re not often wrong [Crofty], but you’re right again.”

RACE

“We’re going to have two trains, aren’t we, a blue train and a red train heading down to turn one.”

“Flavio! Long time no see. Probably since you fired me, probably.”

“Zhou Gyanyu, I’m Martin Brundle. We’ve never met.”

(to Guy Ritchie)
“I love the movie A Gentleman. It’s kind of like a typical day out with you.”

Jools Holland: “What do the bookmakers say? Is it McLaren?”
Martin: “No, it’s definitely not.”

“The incident between Ocon and Michael Schumacher noted for causing a collision.”
(who?)

“When you’re catching words from Gunther, you need to be selective.”

“Are you superstitious? I’m superstitious. It’s called the W13.”

“Max is not very good at going slowly, is he?”

“Never ever is a very long time.”

“As they 7-point turn that to get that down the road…”

“Max Verstappen needs his inner Nigel Mansell now.”

“Lewis, still you rise.”


SAUDI ARABIA
Martin did not commentate in Saudi Arabia.


AUSTRALIA
QUALIFYING

“As the great Murray Walker used to say, “if” is F1 spelt backwards.”

“I can just hear Valtteri Bottas, “to whom it may concern”… “oh lord, DON’T give me a Mercedes-Benz right now!”

(cost cap)
“Birthday cake presumably not included in that.”

“Are you crying, Ted, or have you got hayfever?”

George Russell: “Tell Lewis to speed up.”
Martin: “It’s not often you have to say that.”

RACE

“Are you Marco Mattiachi? Mattazi?”
[…]
“Well, that went well, didn’t it(?)“

“I wasn’t used to being this far up the grid too often.”

“Let’s do a Marty’s Random Person. I ran into you – who are you, what are you doing on the grid? […] You’re my first Marty’s Random Person of the year.”

“Word of the day: it’s nuts.”

“Esteban, it’s OK, I’ll pay the fine if you’re late.”

“I don’t think there’s a second spare in these cars these days, and if there was a second spare you would be fired.”

“To finish first, first you must finish.”

“If you’re going past me, you’re going the long way round, son.”

“They’re [Mercedes] second in the Constructors’ title with a car that looks like it wants to fly off the road at every opportunity.”

“How many bits and pieces have they used at Aston Martin this weekend!?”

“George defending fresh air a little bit there.”

“Looked a day late and a dollar short.”

“It’s honour amongst thieves: basically, you can’t go racing with somebody who weaves.”


EMILIA ROMAGNA
Martin did not commentate in Emilia Romagna.


MIAMI
QUALIFYING

(Martin drove a lap of the track, scaring Vettel in the process)
“I work on the basis you have a limited number of laps, and I wasn’t going to waste any of them doing a warm-up lap!”

“It [Norris’s helmet] looks extremely heavy. I’m sure it’s not, because his head would fall off his shoulders.”

“They [iguanas] weigh up to 10kg apparently, so you wouldn’t want them dropping on our head, and it wouldn’t be good for the iguana either.”

“I’d like to order 5,000 miles of it [the track] for UK roads.”

“To quote the great Murray Walker, if Carlos Sainz wasn’t having bad luck, he’d have no luck at all.”

“He’s [Vettel] got to apply everything I taught him now in that Aston Martin Vantage!”

RACE

“As the great Murray Walker would say, you could cut the atmosphere with a cricket stump.”

(Martin has changed into a Hawaiian shirt)
“I changed my shirt, I was feeling conspicuous in a plain shirt, to be honest.”

“Hold tight. This gridwalk is either going to be mildly interesting or a total car crash.”

(Martin tries to interview the Williams sisters for the third time in his career)
“I don’t know I can stand the rejection, to be honest.”

Venus Williams: “Oh… what’s the question?”
Martin: “No, doesn’t really matter…”

(whilst interviewing Paolo Banchero, believing him to be Patrick Mahomes II)
Martin: “OK. It’s not Patrick. That’s why he ignored me at the beginning. What is your name, sir?”
Paolo Banchero: “Paolo. Banchero.”
Martin: “Right. OK. Well, I thought I was talking to somebody else, so I’m sorry about that! Whatever. Little bit of misinformation in the ears there…”

(Martin runs into Coulthard on the grid whilst they battle for the attentions of Christian Horner)
David Coulthard: “You go first, Martin: age before beauty!”
Martin: “Oh, thank you very much(!)”
[…]
Christian Horner: “Are you two still rooming?”
Martin: “Sometimes!”

“Look at this… it’s like somebody’s just left the floodgates open. The grandstands must be nearly empty.”

Martin: “I don’t know who you are, but I’d like to know who you are. I’m Martin Brundle from Sky, you look a very interesting character.”
Gianluca Vacchi: “Social media sensation, let’s say this!”
Martin: “And modest too! So what do you do on social media? What is your name, sir?”
Gianluca Vacchi: “Gianluca Vacchi.”
Martin: “OK. Well, I’m sorry I didn’t know, but I’m really pleased to have met you… went well.”

“It’s like Tokyo Central station mixed with Piccadilly Circus early in the morning.”

“Now, I still haven’t seen a driver. Have you?”

“We’ve shared an interview with an old racing driver over there [Coulthard]… well, he’ll be upset I called him an old racing driver.”

(one more car crash interview to finish, with David Beckham this time)
“David, Martin Brundle, Sky. David, have you got a minute for us? That’s the second time he’s blanked me! Didn’t even get a free kick in that one! […] We’ll try again, because we don’t want to be that much offside, do we?”

Crofty: “Congratulations, Martin, you are trending on social media after that grid work— grid walk.”
[…]
Martin: “Grid work, it’s more like!”

(Ricciardo outbrakes Tsunoda)
“That’s the old Daniel Ricciardo we know and love! What’s his expression – lick the stamp and send it?”

“Valtteri Bottas ahead of both Mercedes. What’s that phrase in German – schadenfraude?”

“He was making his own track up there, wasn’t he?”

“Luckily, the tide didn’t go out in the marina at any point.”

(Vettel locks up and runs wide)
“Well, that’s not what I told him to do earlier in the week, is it?”

Fernando Alonso: “I think he closed the door in the last minute.”
Martin: “Also known as turning into the corner.”

“Catch me if you can, and he can’t at the moment.”

(Schumacher crashes into Vettel)
“You can’t be mates as Formula One drivers. You just can’t.”

“K Mag’s already under investigation for weaving left to right on the straight. Or right to left. It doesn’t say which straight.”

(after the race)
Martin: “Somewhat weirdly, Kevin Magnussen’s just received a black and white flag for weaving on the straight.”
Crofty: “Is he still going?”
Martin: “I hope not!”

“They’re caught up in a traffic jam going to the podium… best laid plans and all that.”

“Just makes me feel nervous, seeing those blue lights.”

“First time I’ve ever seen you need a map to get to the podium.”

“Well, it took a while to get to the podium – a long while – but it was worth the wait.”


SPAIN
QUALIFYING

“I’ve got an image of Ted in my head at one of those silent discos dancing to different music to everybody.”

Crofty: “When did you last go to a silent disco with Ted Kravitz!? I want to see the pictures!”
Martin: “He has some sparkly sandals for that.”

“Torque demand, they call it: throttle, you might know it as.”

“A third of a second, you go a very long way in a Formula One car, relatively speaking.”

(after Aston Martin’s new Red Bull-inspired sidepods, they qualify 16th and 18th)
“That’ll take the fears out of the conversation about them having plagiarised bits of the Red Bull.”

“They all know it like the back of their hand, and that’s with a glove on.”

“However much power you’ve got is not enough, even if it is approaching 1,000 horsepower.”

“Charles Leclerc is a bit prone to making mistakes, and there’s another one.”

RACE

(Magnussen accuses Hamilton of hitting him on purpose)
“Why would you do that on purpose!? Why would you risk… exactly what’s happened?”

(Vettel battles Alonso)
“Six world championships between these two. They’re fighting over 13th and 14th place.”

(Sainz passes Norris)
“Adios, amigo!”

(Verstappen has DRS issues)
“Doesn’t Really Stay, I guess his DRS stands for, unfortunately.”

“Anger never seems to make you go forward, it always seems to make you go sideways or backwards.”

“Charles Leclerc must wonder where everyone’s got to this afternoon.”
(and retired a few seconds later!)

“He [Hamilton] was looking to take an early shower and go.”

“Sergio will be thinking “I got ahead of Max, I didn’t lob it off the road, we’ve got a 1-2 in the bag, this 1-2 suits me just fine, thank you.”

“Remember, we had that radio call, “Perez is one-stopping”, and it’s turned into a three-stopper.”


MONACO
QUALIFYING

Coming soon…

RACE

(Martin tries to interview Simone Ashley, and gets interrupted by a bodyguard)
“She doesn’t want to do any TV? Well, we’re halfway there anyway.”

“I’ll have a quick word with Flav. I don’t always understand everything he says.”

“One small word comes into my mind when they say “formation lap will be started behind the safety car”: “why?””

“Let’s wait until tomorrow. Might be dry then.”

“Statue’s enjoying the rain.”

(a fan shelters from the rain under a pizza box)
“You can eat the pizza and then it’s an umbrella for two!”

“There was a classic shot there Crofty of the pit lane looking like Tokyo Central Station at 8 o’clock on a Monday morning, with trolleys going in both directions.”

“It’s a dangerous business. That’s why we’re all tuned in.”

“Some of the guttering needs a look at, there, Crofty. You know anybody good?”

“The throttle works both ways.”

“It looked like Piccadilly Circus with tyres out there.”

“At the famous 1992 British Grand Prix, Mansell won and the crowd invaded the track, and a man stuck out a baby in front of me to get me to stop and give him an autograph!”

“This is not junior racing.”

“Do something! Let’s do something!”

“That’s just “race” – the “control” bit hasn’t arrived yet.”

(the pit lane siren gets stuck on)
“I know a song that will get on your nerves…”

“A miss is as good as a mile.”

(Sainz with a huge save)
“His dad’s rally experience came in there, didn’t it?”

“Let’s have a regroup here, Crofty…”

“Bit of an irony that we’ve had all the treacherous rain and the big shunt happens when it’s getting to dry.”

“I’ll put some money in the meter, for starters: we haven’t made it to half distance yet in terms of laps.”

“Just to be controversial, all the lapped runners may go through.”

“Alex Albon running 18th, also known as last right now…”

“DRS enabled. Finally.”

“This is one of the more bizarre races I’ve commentated on in 26 years.”

(Zhou nearly loses it)
“That may even be better than Sainz’s… sheer terror, I think, to save that car!”

“What a race! We’ve had everything.”

Crofty & Martin (together): “Oh, once again…”
Crofty: “Did we say that at the same time?”
Martin: “Yes we did!”

Martin: “Is it 5 hours ago the race should have started?”
Crofty: “3.”
Martin: “3. Feels like 5, though!”


AZERBAIJAN
Martin did not commentate in Azerbaijan.


CANADA
QUALIFYING

“Mr Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, George Russell.”

“It looks like peeping out of your garden shed on a rainy day.”

“When you’re turning right into a 90° left hander, something’s going to go wrong.”

“That’s the most pathetic feeling in the world, that is, a slow-speed accident like that.”

Ted: “When you get out, did the crowd cheer and do an iconic clap at you?”
Martin: “I didn’t crash that often, Ted…(!)”

“Go fast, don’t crash.”

“This is going to look like a fruit machine tumbling around.”

Crofty: “Mick Schumacher has just gone fastest of all in the first sector.”
Martin: “Good for him!”

“[Turn] 3 will be slipperier than a slippery thing.”

“Like oiled oak, basically, isn’t it?”

“His car looked drunk, actually, going down the back straight.”

RACE

“It’s like the grid’s been drawn out of a hat, almost.”

“The Sheffy lad… from China.”

“That’s the second time I’ve tripped over Sky Italy. I’m terribly sorry about that… if I was that sorry I wouldn’t have done it a second time.”

“I don’t know if Mick talks on the grid, but we’re about to find out.”

“Kev. Kev? Am I interrupting? Well I am, aren’t I?”

Martin: “CH, what can you tell us that we don’t already know?”
Christian Horner: “You know everything anyway!”

(Bottas hits a bollard)
“Wouldn’t be passing his driving test, would he, with that?”

“I think, psychologically, when it’s [the tyre] painted white, you think it’s going to be slow.”

Crofty: “Did he [Verstappen] have radio problems towards the end of that match [sic]?”
[…]
Martin: “His mirrors were telling him all he needed to know.”


UNITED KINGDOM
QUALIFYING

Coming soon…

RACE

“It’s lovely just being on British Formula One TV, to be honest.”

“I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the FW14, because I used to race against it.”

Stormzy: “They [Hamilton and Russell] know this place like the back of their hand.”
Martin: “Back of their hand with fireproof gloves on!”

“That’s Rylan, isn’t it, that guy over there, with the impressive teeth. Good-looking guy.”

“Look where you’re going, Jackie, you’re running into people!”

Martin: “Billy Blundell, how are you doing? Haven’t seen you all weekend.”
Mark Blundell: “I thought you mistook me for Keanu Reeves!”

Gordon Ramsey: “Great food as well now.”
Martin: “Great food as well? Why, are you doing it?”

“The risk of rain was listed as the same as VAT over here, 20%. But that’s gone away, sadly, unlike VAT.”

“Four into one doesn’t go.”

“There were only 17 restarters but it looked like there were 34 of them out there!”

“A little bit of “rubbing is racing”.”

“Synchronised spinning.”

Crofty: “Driver of the day vote closes in four laps.”
Martin: “Good luck with that one!”

(Nadine Dorries presents the 2nd place trophy)
“Is that the lady I saw on the grid? It is? Right, so I didn’t know who she was, and I wish I had done!”


AUSTRIA
FREE PRACTICE ONE

Coming soon…

QUALIFYING

(Crofty points out Norris has never finished Round 11 of the Championship)
“Yes, but that leads to a new stat, “for the first time”…”

““Arrive and drive” corner.”

“Another lap bites the dust.”

SPRINT

Coming soon…

RACE

“The FW14B was the car to beat. A technical masterpiece, which only a lion could tame.”

“Over the next 12 races I had five podiums, four fourth places, two fifths, and the race I was missing I should have won in Canada, but the transmission failed. And then I got fired, in true Formula One style.”

“I’m not sure these cars will be around in 30 years’ time, but if they are I’ll only be 93.”

“Patience will be a virtue.”

“You were never going to frighten Max Verstappen off the road.”

“Verstappen left the door open, and Leclerc walked straight through it.”

“Max gave himself a discount on that 1:10.0 that he was asked to do with a 1:09.2.”

“I don’t know why they don’t put a full safety car out and stack the pack up, to be honest. For the show, as much as anything.”

“More exciting than I feared it might be at one point.”


FRANCE
Martin did not commentate in France.


HUNGARY
Coming soon…


BELGIUM
Coming soon…


THE NETHERLANDS
Martin did not commentate in The Netherlands.


ITALY
QUALIFYING

“In Formula One, you’re either giving pressure or you’re taking it.”

“This is a high-pressure business. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

“Too fast in the pit lane, too slow out on track.”

(Bottas with a huge lock-up)
“I would imagine that right front is a little bit over.”

RACE

“You can’t go in with a half-hearted tackle.”

“Red Bull seem to know – unless they’ve got some binoculars on the pit wall.”

“There’ll be a lot of fingers and toes crossed on the Ferrari pit wall yet again.”

“He’s never shy on the radio, is he, Fernando?”

“He can only look at the surface of them, though. Unless he’s got X-ray eyes.”

“He might be the second-oldest driver in the field, Lewis Hamilton, but he caught the youngsters sleeping there a little bit.”


SINGAPORE
QUALIFYING

“If in doubt, send them out.”

“It’s like pulling the handbrake on if you haven’t got enough rear grip.”

(Verstappen blocks Perez)
“Jonathan Wheatley might be in the steward’s office representing both drivers there.”

(the two Ferraris release at the same time)
“That’s an unsafe release by Ferrari on a Ferrari.”

“Christian [Horner] made the point there’s no sunlight. Obvious, I know, at a night race.”

“The last radio call we heard was Sebastian Vettel, “it was too early for dries!” – now they’ve all gone out on dries.”

“I “really” think – as in not very often – sorry about my Norfolk accent…”
(as in “rarely”!)

Xavier Marcos: “Track is drying.”
Martin: “Tell me something I don’t know!”

RACE

Micah Richards: “Any advice for going around the corners?”
Martin: “Go fast, don’t crash.”

(discussing start delays)
“I’ve got to talk to Will.I.Am on the grid!”

“Whether they’ve got the freedom, Paul, to apply common sense…”

“Sorry to use swear words like “common sense”…”

“The grid walk I didn’t think I was going to be doing about half an hour ago.”

Martin: “Fernando, 350th Grand Prix, congratulations.”
Fernando Alonso: “Thank you.”
Martin: “You must be getting the hang of it now.”

“I expected to be as welcome as an insurance salesman with his foot on the door… or like a dental appointment on a wet Monday morning.”

(Alonso’s 350th start)
“I did 150-odd; at the time, that was top 10!”

“Lunging Alonso that far back would be like trying to take a pot of honey off a grizzly bear.”

“Nothing to lose territory, as I said earlier, apart from a front wing or a trip to the wall.”

“They’ve got all the grip of oiled oak out there.”

(Ocon’s engine expires)
“Won’t even make a coffee table, will it? That sounds like a bag of nails.”

“I think he’d got past the point of no return – and there was no return.”

George Russell: “What the hell happened there?”
Martin: “You turned right into him, George.”

Martin: “DRS enabled!”
Crofty: “They were listening to you, there, Martin.”
Martin: “No they don’t.”

“Max and Lewis have had a season’s worth of adventures this evening.”


JAPAN
Martin did not commentate in Japan.


UNITED STATES
QUALIFYING

“Over a completely blind crest for a driver – easy enough for a helicopter.”

“It would be an airplane crash if you ran into somebody there.”

“Fernando yesterday was very unhappy with Lewis’s apparent lack of mirrors.”

“Schumacher, locking a rear axle and pirouetting, checking out where he’s just been.”

“Noah’s ark until the penalties are applied.”

RACE

“I can see why Ghanyu would not talk to me, to be honest.”

“They’re known as “Pitt stops”, if they don’t want you to talk to Brad Pitt.”

Emerson Fittipaldi: “This track separates the men from the boys.”
Martin: “And the girls, of course.”

“To finish first, first you must finish.”

“If Carlos Sainz wasn’t having bad luck, he’d be having no luck at all.”

“It must be like being in the Tour de France out front.”

Pete Bonnington: “OK Lewis, it’s hammer time.”
Martin: “Haven’t heard that one for a while […] it’ll need to be a big hammer.”

“It’s not going to be on his Christmas list, is it, a set of hard tyres?”

Crofty: “Good grid walk today, by the way.”
Martin: “Was it?”
Crofty: “Yeah, your back catalogue of Green Day served you well.”

“Safety cars generate safety cars, it’s a well-known expression in this business.”

(to Zak Brown)
“We haven’t seen or heard too much from Daniel [Ricciardo], has he sent you a postcard on the pit wall?”

“Let’s just consider Fernando Alonso’s afternoon: at one point, he nearly ended up on the radar of the international airport.”

“Lando’s in that mode, “wherever you brake, I’m going to brake a little bit later.””

“Vettel driving like a man possessed, and he’s retiring, what a shame!”

“I wanted to speak to him [Big Shaq] on the grid but I couldn’t find him.”


MEXICO CITY
QUALIFYING

“Sergio Perez tied his bootlaces and he’s going to get a cheer like that.”

“DRS, rear wing open, which is like a big hand of God pushing you along.”

“If your tyres are working in the first chance, they won’t be working in the stadium. You’ve got to pick and choose – what’s your favourite chocolate?”

“He had so much oversteer, he didn’t breach the white line.”

“When you come around and you’re that far down, it feels like you need a calendar to time it.”

“11’s the left-hander. I had a wheel fall off there in my Brabham once.”

(Perez is the only car on track, again)
“He just doesn’t want to share the love of the crowd, does he?”

“That was when Max was very young and very feisty. Now he’s older… and feisty.”

“Hop, skip, and a jump over the kerbs.”

RACE

“I’ve got my own underpants on, you may or may not want to know.”

“They sent me a nice note in the week about our misunderstanding on the grid in Austin.”

“I remember following him [Ocon] down the grid in Spa, actually, calling his name out because he couldn’t hear me, and I was limping badly with a dodgy foot.”

“I don’t like being ignored by all these famous people.”

“I hope you do appreciate me making myself looking stupid for your amusement… I’ve got my microphone caught up in this lady’s handbag! Sorry, I was not trying to steal anything out of your handbag, it was my microphone cable!”

“That was more of a mugging than an overtake.”

(Crofty asks Martin what Mercedes should do)
“I’d do what Bernie Ecclestone did a few decades ago – find a chequered flag, wave it, the race is over, sort it out afterwards!”

“You’d definitely want Fernando in your gang, wouldn’t you?”

“Welcome back, Daniel. […] We’ll give him a 10-second penalty on the grid, he’s flying.”

Crofty: “I’ll turn to my esteemed colleague, Mr Brundle, on that one.”
Martin: “I wasn’t listening…”

(on the DJ)
“If he does a set of Led Zeppelin and some Bone Ash, he’ll get my attention.”

“That wasn’t a great Grand Prix.”

“The drivers come on the radio: “beep gearbox, beep engine, beep beep beep tyres”, and they [the engineers] just go “copy”.”

(the car is raised up to the podium)
“I don’t know who signs off the insurance for this bit.”


SAO PAULO
QUALIFYING

(Valtteri Bottas’s Movember effort)
“It’s very 70s, isn’t it?”

“You will not be having small accidents in some of those places.”

(a rather poor camera angle of the crowd)
“As they head up the straight… interesting view there…”

“The timing screen is going to look like a fruit machine.”

(Leclerc is the only car on intermediates)
“It’s like turning up to a black tie dinner and you haven’t read the dress code.”

“We’ve got tinted glass in the commentary box and it looks like it’s night time…!”

“I can’t imagine we’ll cut to Kevin Magnussen sitting out the back on a pile of tyres smoking a cigar or something.”

“Minnows have beaten the sharks.”

“Get your skid lid off, Kevin, let’s have a look at that smile.”

SPRINT

“It’ll be short, will it be sweet?”

“If I was Max, I’d treat the Haas like the hind legs of a donkey.”

(Stroll pushes Vettel onto the grass)
Sebastian Vettel: “OK…”
Martin: “Enough said.”

(visor cam)
“It’s like looking out of a letterbox, isn’t it?”

“I still think this is way better than a free practice session, Crofty!”

RACE

“His V6 power unit suddenly sounded like a V8, but we had the soundtrack of the safety car.”

“I’m sure you had them [Ocon and Alonso] in the headmaster’s office yesterday, Otmar.”

“You don’t want to carry 2 or 3 kilos around for 71 laps. You might as well go home. Or 5 kilos, in which case you definitely go home.”

“That midfield feels like a game of snakes and ladders today […] take your penalty on a snake, see if you can find another ladder.”

Riccardo Musconi: “Let us know how these tyres are feeling.”
George Russell: “Feeling good.”
Martin: “Black and round and grippy.”

“Verstappen still with one world championship point position, not that he needs any more world championship points this year.”

“I tried my very best, but finally a King’s Lynn driver wins a Grand Prix!”


ABU DHABI
QUALIFYING

“You stay a little bit in the middle, because for some reason it loses a lane on the right-hand side.”

“It looks as if they’ve got a good car for this package.”
(eh?)

“A Formula One car goes a very long way in 8 tenths of a second.”

(discussing the drivers’ dinner)
“I read somewhere it was 140 grand! I’m not sure how you can spend 140 grand on 20 people having dinner!”

“What a difference a week makes.”

“This was like an arcade game for Sebastian Vettel.”

(Sainz’s helmet cam bounces through turn 3)
“I don’t know how they see where they’re going, frankly.”

RACE

“It feels five minutes since he [Vettel] turned up looking like he was on his school summer holidays.”

(re Canada 2019)
“If he hadn’t have moved it, I’d have run down there and moved it for him.”

“At least half the people on this grid think they’re famous.”

“It’s like a bad nightclub out here, isn’t it?”

“I’m going to embarrass myself now. […] I’ve momentarily forgotten who you are. […] I just about got away with that, didn’t I?”

“It’s OK, I’ve been thrown out of better places than this.”

“Handy night out, $12m for the team.”

“The door was open, and he drove the Ferrari through it.”

“You win together, you lose together.”

“These things have got the bonnet of an E-type Jag out the front.”

Crofty: “They looked rather neat in slow motion, the two cars piroo— pirou— pirouetting…”
Martin: “Easy for you to say.”

Lewis Hamilton: “Are we too late to stop?”
Pete Bonnington: “So we’ll drop back to P6, battling back to P5.”
Martin: “Also known as your teammate.”