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> Oh sorry! I forgot to mention! Its because the
> Hungarian GP nicley fell in with the school
> holidays, and Brundle used the time to go off to
> his villa in Spain with his family. Quite
> supprised and shocked to hear BBC werent too keen
> on the idea and said no. Granted theres a 4 week
> gap between Hungary and Valencia but whats one
> race? They have a number of suitable replacements.
> Kinda reminds of when they asked Colin Edwards to
> drop his commentary work, and do only F1,
> basically do F1 and nothing or no F1 and do
> everything else. Kinda silly imo. Its like asking
> the guy to divorce the love of his life lol!
Much as I think Martin is worth keeping. I think it's fairly dumb of him to expect it. He only has to attend 17 races over the year to get a fairly sizeable pay packet. And it's not like there isn't a summer break! Do you think that any other sports commentators miss an event?