Within the thrilling ambiance of final Sunday’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, an ungainly second unfolded between F1 commentator Martin Brundle and legendary Queen guitarist, Sir Brian Could.
The encounter happened throughout Brundle’s well-known pre-race grid stroll when the Sky F1 commentator noticed Could, accompanied by his grandson and chatting with the Mercedes crew.
By no means one to overlook likelihood to speak with a uncommon movie star, a lot much less one bringing a contact of rock and roll royalty to the grid, the previous F1 driver approached Could with a cheery, “Brian are you up for a chat with Sky?”
Could, showing hesitant, politely declined, insisting he knew little about F1, leaving Brundle to expertly salvage the state of affairs.
“You don’t have to know something. Good to see you on the grid, thanks very a lot,” he replied as he scrambled away in quest of one other respondent.
“We don’t wish to make life troublesome for him. He stated he doesn’t know sufficient about F1. I respect that. He doesn’t wish to stand there and faux he does. That’s completely high quality.”
In the meantime, Could himself later took to his web site to precise his delight along with his day on the races, and to deal with the misunderstanding.
“I had an incredible day at Silverstone because of the kindness of the Mercedes crew and my grandson had some really historic birthday moments,” Could famous.
“And by the best way, apologies to Mr Brundle. Completely no intention of snubbing you. All you see is somebody who’s nervous of talking about one thing of which he has little understanding and anxious to get to the place he’s imagined to be.”
On Wednesday, Brundle capped all of it off with a social media apology, taking full duty for the awkwardness.
“It’s me who needs to be apologising to Sir Brian Could, not him to me for the gridwalk on Sunday at Silverstone,” Brundle wrote on X.
“I didn’t tackle him as Sir Brian, and I shouldn’t have approached him twice when he wasn’t up for a chat on dwell TV. No person is ever obliged to speak to me on the grid, or wherever else for that matter.”
In the long run, each Brundle and Could confirmed their true colours – stylish and with an incredible humorousness.
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