EC83 Wrote:
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> I've never noticed Brundle getting any more
> error-prone than he ever was TBH. As far as I've
> known he's always been pretty on it. Definitely I
> don't think age comes into it - he's no Murray
> yet.
>
> Yeah, there's definitely a buzz you get from
> correctly guessing what the commentators will say
> before they say it. It was quite easy back when
> Murray and James Hunt were commentating, since
> both of them were pretty good at missing things,
> to the point where it was really annoying
> sometimes. It was easy when Jonathan Palmer was
> alongside Murray too, for more or less the same
> reason. It got a lot harder when Brundle started
> commentating, but you still acclimatized to that.
> There was one time in the mid-2000s when I used to
> watch almost every GP with some mates who were
> also hardcore F1 fans, and I was consistently
> noticing/saying stuff before Martin said it. In
> the opening laps of the 2007 Australian GP, for
> example, when Massa was pulling out of the
> slipstream of slower cars to get cool air to his
> radiators, my mate's GF asked why he wasn't
> driving on the racing line. I explained; about 30
> seconds later Brundle explained. She nearly fell
> off her seat.
Tbh I was seeing stuff last year that DC and Martin had to wait for a replay before they even notice it. Seeing that they see the same feed as us I do find that they miss a bit to much. But there is so much other stuff going on and sometimes I dont know if they are actually watching the TV the whole time.