Martin Brundle

That was ooh.

But yeah, that, on the Charles and Lewis thing, I don't know if you heard it, Nico Rosberg and Martin Brundle having the most diplomatic and polite argument I've ever heard.

[laughing]

No. [laughing]

This is like...

I'm Martin Brundle now.

How about this? We're doing a little gridwalk.

Here we go.

I'm happy to do whatever in between.

However, I'll need to be home for the Martin Brundle gridwalk.

I know some people go, I'm into it.

But like Brooke's like, no, no, she's like really into it.

[laughs]

We describe it like that, the way, uh, the way, uh, on the Formula One races, Martin Brundle does his walk down along the pit lane.

Yeah.

Well, Ben Challacombe did a very memorable walk through the pit lane of all the new robots, uh, previously-

Yeah.

'Cause interestingly, quite a few of the colleagues that we know, actually, um-

I'll push in here like Martin Brundle would do and get closer to the car

... older, uh, old- older surgeons have found lots of neck issues after doing, you know-

So, Lockie, we saw some news on Aston Martin and one high-profile commentator making a comment which drew a bit of controversy.

Well, yeah, Martin Brundle sort of stepped out there and said that he is thinking it's time to drop both Alonso and Stroll and have the 2027 seats open.

In his words, I can't help but think if I was running Aston Martin, and this will go down really well, they're rebuilding that team.

They're rebuilding for the future.

What are you saying, Johnny Herbert? Everybody's loving Lando Norris' work.

Have you heard Sky Sports, Brundle, the extent to which you praise him, the verbiage, the superlatives? Everybody loves the dude.

Like, what are you talking about, Johnny Herbert? Let's rebuke, rebuttal that in that first instance.

The second one, though, he has already reached the level of Max Verstappen.

You might do, but I think his advantage underlines itself when you're talking about 57 laps.

It's his ability to do it lap after lap.

Alex Brundle, the legend that is, said this, didn't he? It's his ability to be precise, not over the course of one lap, but lap after lap after lap, turn after turn after turn.

On average, he's just using much more track than everybody else, in addition to Peter Windsor's theory that he's Obviously, he's managing the dynamic loads.

So again, glad to have you with us, Tom.

Thanks, uh, Brundle for joining last week for helping us out again, contributing, just mentioning, uh, my one 62 and Oh, chats with Brundle are always like the frustration of like wanting to break your phone.

When you hit one 61 and one row, just what? I

don't know how you guys do it.

Right, the final question from Alistair Hughes, who says, "A question about the power unit's part allocation regulations.

Martin Brundle stated in commentary at Monza regarding Kimi Antonelli's 30-place grid penalty that the regulations limiting the number of each power unit part that can be used throughout the season are in place to prevent richer, bigger teams from throwing a new power unit in the back of the car every weekend.

This would make sense back before we had the cost cap, but I don't see why it remains necessary if we were to include it as part of the current cost cap.

Am I missing something in the nuance of the current regulations and/or is there a particular reason it was decided that these limitations would be put in place?"