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[Jack_is_Back]

I find Brundle quite annoying too. He's a smug know-it-all that takes any scrap of opportunity to mention his own F1 "racing" career.

If we were schoolkids I'd be kicking him in the nuts and stealing his lunch money.

[Teacake]

Shows how different people can react in different ways. I've always found Brundle to be really down-to-earth, not smug at all. I've only rarely noticed him mentioning his F1 career. He did mention it in Australia, which was relevant, because he was talking about the dangers of the corner where he had his legendary crash.

You put "racing" in quotes, by which I take it that you're implying that Brundle was no good as a driver. That's something I'd have to disagree with. He put in strong performances with often pretty uncompetitive machinery, and came off well against team-mates that included Senna, Schumacher and Hakkinen.

[jb44]

You think Brundle stands comparison with Scumacher? And Senna?! Brundle simply was never in the same class as them, at best he was a second-rate journeyman. To compare him to the Gods of F1 is nothing short of heresy. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Only Prost can be compared to Senna - No-one else comes close. Not even Schumacher - he never had the quality competition that helped concentrate Senna's mind.

Really, some people! Go wash your keyboard out with soap.

Johan Buchner

[garcon]

Brundle hardly embarrassed himself against those drivers. He was a good quality F1 pilot, and a solid teammate. Probably would never have won the F1 WDC, but don't forget he had plenty of success in sportscars after F1.

What's more relevant to this, as an expert analyst Brundle is knowledgeable and eloquent - precisely what you need in the box when there's a numbnut commentator next to you.

[Teacake]

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You think Brundle stands comparison with Scumacher? And Senna?! Brundle simply was never in the same class as them, at best he was a second-rate journeyman. To compare him to the Gods of F1 is nothing short of heresy. You should be ashamed of yourself.

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Actually, that's not quite what I said, but now you come to mention it...
Brundle's performances against his team-mates demonstrate that he was a good F1 driver. Not that he was equal to the very best perhaps, although he regularly beat Senna in more junior formulae, I seem to remember.
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Only Prost can be compared to Senna - No-one else comes close. Not even Schumacher - he never had the quality competition that helped concentrate Senna's mind.

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So what you're saying is that Senna was helped, yet though Schumacher wasn't helped to concentrate his mind, he was somehow inferior. Don't follow that contradiction, I'm afraid.
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Really, some people! Go wash your keyboard out with soap.

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Shan't.

[pauleden]

I quite like the idea of Vicky Butler-Henderson in the pit lane

Good god, man. Are you mad? He'd (sic) spend the entire time fawning over the BMW's.