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Hi Martin
I’m a big fan of your grid walks and the plan to get Bernie’s daughter to ask Schumacher a few questions at Imola was great; shame it didn’t work out! You mentioned you fell out with Michael a few years ago and don’t talk to each other much as a result. Can you remember why?
It is a funny thing but I get great comments all over the world about the grid walks and I have yet to see one on TV! I have caught glimpses here and there but I have never really had the inclination to watch them. I hate seeing myself on TV.
I thought Tamara Ecclestone did really well, and when she said she wanted to get into TV I suddenly had the idea of giving her a platform to show her skills.
It really miffs me that Michael won't talk to other television companies on the grid except the Germans, especially as he rightly has so many fans in the UK.
If you notice, we actually get very little access to him through the year and only Ross Brawn really looks after us. It is crazy on their part because the UK is an important market for F1, Ferrari and their sponsors.
Michael took exception to something I was quoted as saying which had been taken completely out of context by a German newspaper.
I think it was about three years ago and I think it was me being critical of him for driving people off the road when he had a bad start. I cannot fully remember and nor can he, so it's really not important.
Im going with the classic line, that "he slept with Schui's wife" and got caught
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
Hungaroring '92 I believe.
Michael made a mistake early on allowing team mate Martin to get a run, at which point Schuy did a schuy and ran him off the track. Martin rejoined still behind MS who was 3rd behind the Williams led by Mansell. When Riccardo Patrese in the second Williams slowed for a chicane he forced Michael to brake extra early and Martin, not expecting this, nudged the back of his car seemingly without consiquence. Unfortunetly the Bennetons ran a high nose and it just cracked the struts for Michaels rear wing. Next corner, Martins revenge. Wing breaks off, Michael goes piroueting and Brundle gets third.
Brundle admitted he had taken delight in seeing this, Michael admitted that he hadn't.
I am pretty sure thats why they don't get on, certainly Brundle made quite a bit about it in his book.
Does Schumacher have a rat tail's in that picture?
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
Brundle stopped racing because he couldn't get a deacent team, he was concentrating on sportscars a bit and he probably had a rethink about safety after him Melbourne Airbourne incident.
