Alex Brundle on Hamilton, Red Bull, his father Martin and his own racing career #268
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined by Alex Brundle, racing driver and motorsport commentator. Alex talks about his father Martin Brundle, his own racing career in single-seaters and sports cars, why he's formed a historic racing team, the problem of the second Red Bull seat and if Lewis Hamilton can be champion again.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Intercooler podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | Hi everybody, this is episode 268 of the Intercooler podcast with Dan Proser and Andrew Frankel. |
| 0:14.3 | And I suspect this week we're going to do a lot of motorsport, a lot of F1, probably some Le Mans, |
| 0:20.3 | but I think we can do some road cars as well, |
| 0:22.5 | because we're joined by Alex Brundle, racing driver, historic racing team founder, commentator, |
| 0:31.8 | pundit, F1, Pundit. You're a busy man, Alex. Thanks for finding the time to come and join us. |
| 0:36.9 | Thank you very much for having me. Yeah, it just shows me that little intro, |
| 0:40.8 | very kind intro, shows me how many jobs I've agreed to. Yeah. I don't remember agreeing to all of them. |
| 0:46.7 | But I definitely have, and it's now given me quite a lot of responsibilities this year. But all good fun stuff. |
| 0:52.9 | Well, we can tell you're a professional, a media professional these days, because you've got |
| 0:56.4 | a proper setup there, I don't know where you are, but you've got a studio set up, you've got |
| 1:00.0 | a good mic, you've got some soundproofing boards on the wall. |
| 1:04.0 | I mean, clearly, this is not your first podcasting rodeo. |
| 1:07.7 | This is my little HQ in London, and I kind of, yeah, eventually I'm going to have to |
| 1:14.3 | unglue all of the sound deadening, which I'm not looking forward to because I will eventually |
| 1:18.5 | move, I will eventually move out of here. But it gets to the point where, you know, quick Wi-Fi |
| 1:24.0 | and a bit of wall dressing is your friend because you end up doing kind of so much of this kind of thing. And yeah, the old London Wi-Fi and a bit of wall dressing is your friend because you end up doing kind of so much of this |
| 1:28.1 | kind of thing. Yeah. And yeah, the old London Wi-Fi gets lent on pretty hard. Yes. Now, this is a little |
| 1:34.3 | bit awkward because we're recording this on the Monday of Le Mans Week. And clearly, you're a Le Mans guy. |
| 1:41.1 | This isn't actually going to go out until the Monday after Le Mansond week. Andrew, I mean, if it's a cracking LeMont, you and I are going to have to jump on and do... |
| 1:47.3 | If there's like five or ten minutes right at the end of this podcast, all about LeMont, |
| 1:50.7 | what has happened is we've gone there, it's been an amazing race, |
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