- 29 Dec 08, 21:36#86360
Ayrton Senna: WDC 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
McLaren: WCC 1974, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2007
McLaren: WDC 1974, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2008
Both articles are from Planet F1:
The All-Time Best Blundell: Part 1
Wednesday 24th December 2008
Planet-F1 has stood alone in championing a giant in F1 punditry. Mark Blundell is a man who could introduce abstract concepts to his post-race analysis as easily as saying "ve car wot he had underneath him, Steve."
He was that lovable cockney "git orf me barra" geezer wot helped Steve Rider explain ve Formula 1 races. Mark Blundell made ITV's coverage compulsory viewing in much the same way that standing near a sharp, icy corner in winter is so rewarding. You know something disastrous is going to happen, it's just a question of being patient and waiting...
Talking about Lewis Hamilton's challenge before his debut F1 race, the 2007Australian GP:
"It's a duration of race that he's never really done before. He will have tested and done race durations, but under pressure of the environment, come Sunday afternoon - but at the end of the day he's a racer and he will do what he has to do to get a result."
Describing Renault's dilemma at losing Alonso for 2007 - said standing outside the Renault garage:
"A big psychology break here because these guys have lost the current World Champion. He's taken all the information and data what he valued for this side of things here to win those World Championships across to McLaren."
Mark on what the first race of 2007 would show us:
"They're going to go into pecking order."
And once the chequered flag comes out:
"He's going to come to the forefront of this season immediately."
He cut them out for the 2008 season, but in 2007 he would launch into complicated and mystifying analysis. Here's Blunders talking about Honda, but what is he really talking about?
"They've got a new image. They've got everything that they're moving into in a different way - whole new process - but what they've got to be careful of is they don't lead the way on the track, that they're leaving behind technology and performance where they really are frustration there, because Button and Barrichello, they're scratching their heads already at the first race and that's not what they want."
Analysing Felipe Massa's performance:
"To be fair, Steve, he had durability problems over the qualifying. He achieved a great result compared to what was out there, traffic-wise."
Talking about Lewis's development:
"I think he has to learn the level what he can push for and how long he can keep pushing and understand what is underneath him at a certain point."
Talking about Felipe Massa's arrival at Ferrari:
"He's keen to lift his game - and the team has given him something so he can enlarge his game..."
Talking about Fernando Alonso in an admiring fashion:
"Whatever comes at him, he just grows through it."
"At This Moment In Time, Steve" Corner
"Pedro - you're doing a lot of work for Mclaren at this moment in time."
"I just can't seem to feel that Jenson is really in touch with his car at this point in time."
"Fernando can make moves what nobody can do at this moment in time."
"There is a lot of pressure on Ferrari at this moment in time."
...and talking bizarrely about Rubens renewed qualifying form.
"Big fing for me, then, Rubens Barrichello. Big impression. Now he's made his mark definitely within stating that third place at this moment in time.
So, is it the Bridgestone team with the Ferrari car attached...?
"...And whether the Bridgestones with their Ferrari advantage in straightline speed."
He has the gift of foresight:
"I think Mclaren will do something a little bit more or a little bit less conservative than they did at the Nurburgring.
Talking about Jenson's sexual chances:
"Monaco is definitely a place where he's going to be pumped up."
Get Yer Finking Gear Round Vese...
"I think it's going to be a tactical race between Ferrari and Renault because they're containing themselves on the first couple of rows. Pat Symmonds - great brain. Ross Brawn, another great brain, so you're gonna see the tactics on the circuit but they're also going to be in the pitlane as well between these two guys in particular."
"We've said it before Steve, sometimes, now and again there's a little chink in Schumacher and his armour there just gets chinked away with this move because he runs wide at the first apex and what he's done with this situation is he's blown his first set of tyres and it doesn't give him that credit to put in and understand what he's got underneath him and get his balance ready for the next set."
The Many Faces of Blundell
He can do fairytale analysis.
"...and that was the start of many things to come."
He can identify parts of the circuit:
"Yeah, you've got that big long corner there."
He can do football talk:
"He's going to be a little pig sick about that."
He can introduce breathtaking abstract concepts.
"They've definitely turned up with some conservativeness built into that tyre."
Analysing the pressure on Fernando Alonso in 2006:
"You can just see a little crack in the paperwork."
"As the championship develops I think we really do have a championship on our hands."
Talking about Renault's bounceback from the banned damper system in 2006:
"These guys are clever guys, they won't lay on their laurels."
His quest for philosophical truths is ongoing.
"China - I fink a lot of us are left finking - what really happened there?"
The Best Blundellisms Ever: Part 2
Saturday 27th December 2008
Mark was always adept at picking up the wrong word and running with it. At one point he decided to use the word "durable" instead of the word "reliable" and popped it in whenever he could for two or three grands prix.
"To be fair to Massa, Steve, he had durability problems over the qualifying. He achieved a great result compared to what was out there traffic-wise."
Mark was always keen to throw in double negatives. A typical Blunders sentence involved a double negative and a cliché or a bit of satisfying nonsense.
"Let's not take nothing away from Massa and Ferrari, Steve, because they've got a big chunk there on pole position."
And we got a new twist in 2007 when he gave his view about Renault's dominance:
"It's not no longer happening."
Mark's view on Alonso's prospects in Malaysia.
"He's up in the mix and I think he could pull something out of the bag."
Mark's view on DC mounting Alex Wurz in Australia 2007.
"It could have been a lot worse, Steve. Gratefully nothing happened."
Mark on the use of data screens
"You can see the laps what have been consumed."
Mark on medieval jousting:
"Everything he had under his armoury there he used and you've got to take your hat off to the guy."
He likes to play around with language.
"A lot of anticipation into that first corner."
Mark's zen philosophical view on Hamilton's approach to racing.
"Lewis just needs to go home and understand where he sits."
Mark on McLaren strategy:
"We've seen every race this season that's the tactics they've done with."
Mark on Lewis Hamilton's race prospects.
"I have a feeling that we might see a great driver come his age today."
Mark on Kimi's slow start to the 2008 season.
"It's not the Raikkonen we thought was going to be the package challenging for Ferrari.
Mark on the Montreal race circuit's 'Wall of Champions':
"You see people hitting the wall after a couple of contretemps.
Mark on why he'd really like to be commentating on football not F1:
"The new boy Vettel done a good job." (the boy done good)
Mark on Lewis's ability to run at the front.
"Start to finish, under a little bit of pressure from time to time but nuffing what worried him one little bit.
Mark on strategy not going wrong.
"I don't fink there's anything strategy there what went wrong at all."
Mark on where it all started.
You know it all started off at the start, Steve."
Mark on Lewis's brain from 2007.
"Lewis Hamilton has to be in the reckoning now to pull this off - he's two in a row - he's got a little bit of an advantage now, a whole grand prix advantage at this point and at some stage in the near future his brain will have to tick in that the World Championship is there for the taking."
Mark offered his view on that contorversial "Are points good or are points bad?" debate:
"Points are very valuable for these teams, Steve."
Mark on Kimi Raikkonen's qualifying in France 2007
"He would have been on pole if he hadn't have made two critical mistakes, so if he can take that consistency (into the race), he stands a chance."
Mark on Fernando's task starting from P10 in Magny Cours 2007.
"He's got a lot to pull out of the bag what we have seen before."
Talking about Jenson's attitude to the Honda-are-pants situation.
"He's physiological about the situation at Honda.
Steve Rider: "He showed ice cool nerve there."
Blundell: "That's what he's all around."
Mark on Lewis's 2007 GBGP preparation
"There is some levels that he's going to have to put under his belt and just make sure he focuses and gets the job done."
Mark summing up Lewis's performance and almost getting it right.
"Pressure. Performed. 100%. Faultless."
Mark on flag marshals:
"Maybe those waved yellow flags should have been stagnant yellow flags."
He became a pundit and weatherman rolled into one:
"It literally does look like there's possible rain on the horizon."
He revealed that Felipe Massa is inflatable:
"Massa's needed pumping up a little bit at the start of the season."
He could tell when Lewis's race had started:
"He just managed to take Raikkonen off the start line and that's where his race started."
Asked if it had been a good start to the season for DC:
"It's been terry dough... very tough for David."
In Italy 2008 he started messing with our heads and using weird concepts.
"Lewis didn't have the confidence, because there wasn't the confidence out there."
For F1's night race Blundell came up with one of his all-time greatest. Talking about Sebastian Vettel's mature drive in the previous race, Mark waxed lyrical:
"He's got such a balanced pair of shoulders with an old head."
ITV's F1 coverage went out on an all-time high with the most dramatic GP ever seen and Mark rose to the occasion. He introduced a particularly nice fruit analogy for tyres in qualifying:
"They've only got goodness left in them for this big lap you put in."
At the end of the race he came up with two Blundell gems to treasure for all time.
"Sao Paulo is predictably variable."
and
"...a last lap wot made the GP very special."
The All-Time Best Blundell: Part 1
Wednesday 24th December 2008
Planet-F1 has stood alone in championing a giant in F1 punditry. Mark Blundell is a man who could introduce abstract concepts to his post-race analysis as easily as saying "ve car wot he had underneath him, Steve."
He was that lovable cockney "git orf me barra" geezer wot helped Steve Rider explain ve Formula 1 races. Mark Blundell made ITV's coverage compulsory viewing in much the same way that standing near a sharp, icy corner in winter is so rewarding. You know something disastrous is going to happen, it's just a question of being patient and waiting...
Talking about Lewis Hamilton's challenge before his debut F1 race, the 2007Australian GP:
"It's a duration of race that he's never really done before. He will have tested and done race durations, but under pressure of the environment, come Sunday afternoon - but at the end of the day he's a racer and he will do what he has to do to get a result."
Describing Renault's dilemma at losing Alonso for 2007 - said standing outside the Renault garage:
"A big psychology break here because these guys have lost the current World Champion. He's taken all the information and data what he valued for this side of things here to win those World Championships across to McLaren."
Mark on what the first race of 2007 would show us:
"They're going to go into pecking order."
And once the chequered flag comes out:
"He's going to come to the forefront of this season immediately."
He cut them out for the 2008 season, but in 2007 he would launch into complicated and mystifying analysis. Here's Blunders talking about Honda, but what is he really talking about?
"They've got a new image. They've got everything that they're moving into in a different way - whole new process - but what they've got to be careful of is they don't lead the way on the track, that they're leaving behind technology and performance where they really are frustration there, because Button and Barrichello, they're scratching their heads already at the first race and that's not what they want."
Analysing Felipe Massa's performance:
"To be fair, Steve, he had durability problems over the qualifying. He achieved a great result compared to what was out there, traffic-wise."
Talking about Lewis's development:
"I think he has to learn the level what he can push for and how long he can keep pushing and understand what is underneath him at a certain point."
Talking about Felipe Massa's arrival at Ferrari:
"He's keen to lift his game - and the team has given him something so he can enlarge his game..."
Talking about Fernando Alonso in an admiring fashion:
"Whatever comes at him, he just grows through it."
"At This Moment In Time, Steve" Corner
"Pedro - you're doing a lot of work for Mclaren at this moment in time."
"I just can't seem to feel that Jenson is really in touch with his car at this point in time."
"Fernando can make moves what nobody can do at this moment in time."
"There is a lot of pressure on Ferrari at this moment in time."
...and talking bizarrely about Rubens renewed qualifying form.
"Big fing for me, then, Rubens Barrichello. Big impression. Now he's made his mark definitely within stating that third place at this moment in time.
So, is it the Bridgestone team with the Ferrari car attached...?
"...And whether the Bridgestones with their Ferrari advantage in straightline speed."
He has the gift of foresight:
"I think Mclaren will do something a little bit more or a little bit less conservative than they did at the Nurburgring.
Talking about Jenson's sexual chances:
"Monaco is definitely a place where he's going to be pumped up."
Get Yer Finking Gear Round Vese...
"I think it's going to be a tactical race between Ferrari and Renault because they're containing themselves on the first couple of rows. Pat Symmonds - great brain. Ross Brawn, another great brain, so you're gonna see the tactics on the circuit but they're also going to be in the pitlane as well between these two guys in particular."
"We've said it before Steve, sometimes, now and again there's a little chink in Schumacher and his armour there just gets chinked away with this move because he runs wide at the first apex and what he's done with this situation is he's blown his first set of tyres and it doesn't give him that credit to put in and understand what he's got underneath him and get his balance ready for the next set."
The Many Faces of Blundell
He can do fairytale analysis.
"...and that was the start of many things to come."
He can identify parts of the circuit:
"Yeah, you've got that big long corner there."
He can do football talk:
"He's going to be a little pig sick about that."
He can introduce breathtaking abstract concepts.
"They've definitely turned up with some conservativeness built into that tyre."
Analysing the pressure on Fernando Alonso in 2006:
"You can just see a little crack in the paperwork."
"As the championship develops I think we really do have a championship on our hands."
Talking about Renault's bounceback from the banned damper system in 2006:
"These guys are clever guys, they won't lay on their laurels."
His quest for philosophical truths is ongoing.
"China - I fink a lot of us are left finking - what really happened there?"
The Best Blundellisms Ever: Part 2
Saturday 27th December 2008
Mark was always adept at picking up the wrong word and running with it. At one point he decided to use the word "durable" instead of the word "reliable" and popped it in whenever he could for two or three grands prix.
"To be fair to Massa, Steve, he had durability problems over the qualifying. He achieved a great result compared to what was out there traffic-wise."
Mark was always keen to throw in double negatives. A typical Blunders sentence involved a double negative and a cliché or a bit of satisfying nonsense.
"Let's not take nothing away from Massa and Ferrari, Steve, because they've got a big chunk there on pole position."
And we got a new twist in 2007 when he gave his view about Renault's dominance:
"It's not no longer happening."
Mark's view on Alonso's prospects in Malaysia.
"He's up in the mix and I think he could pull something out of the bag."
Mark's view on DC mounting Alex Wurz in Australia 2007.
"It could have been a lot worse, Steve. Gratefully nothing happened."
Mark on the use of data screens
"You can see the laps what have been consumed."
Mark on medieval jousting:
"Everything he had under his armoury there he used and you've got to take your hat off to the guy."
He likes to play around with language.
"A lot of anticipation into that first corner."
Mark's zen philosophical view on Hamilton's approach to racing.
"Lewis just needs to go home and understand where he sits."
Mark on McLaren strategy:
"We've seen every race this season that's the tactics they've done with."
Mark on Lewis Hamilton's race prospects.
"I have a feeling that we might see a great driver come his age today."
Mark on Kimi's slow start to the 2008 season.
"It's not the Raikkonen we thought was going to be the package challenging for Ferrari.
Mark on the Montreal race circuit's 'Wall of Champions':
"You see people hitting the wall after a couple of contretemps.
Mark on why he'd really like to be commentating on football not F1:
"The new boy Vettel done a good job." (the boy done good)
Mark on Lewis's ability to run at the front.
"Start to finish, under a little bit of pressure from time to time but nuffing what worried him one little bit.
Mark on strategy not going wrong.
"I don't fink there's anything strategy there what went wrong at all."
Mark on where it all started.
You know it all started off at the start, Steve."
Mark on Lewis's brain from 2007.
"Lewis Hamilton has to be in the reckoning now to pull this off - he's two in a row - he's got a little bit of an advantage now, a whole grand prix advantage at this point and at some stage in the near future his brain will have to tick in that the World Championship is there for the taking."
Mark offered his view on that contorversial "Are points good or are points bad?" debate:
"Points are very valuable for these teams, Steve."
Mark on Kimi Raikkonen's qualifying in France 2007
"He would have been on pole if he hadn't have made two critical mistakes, so if he can take that consistency (into the race), he stands a chance."
Mark on Fernando's task starting from P10 in Magny Cours 2007.
"He's got a lot to pull out of the bag what we have seen before."
Talking about Jenson's attitude to the Honda-are-pants situation.
"He's physiological about the situation at Honda.
Steve Rider: "He showed ice cool nerve there."
Blundell: "That's what he's all around."
Mark on Lewis's 2007 GBGP preparation
"There is some levels that he's going to have to put under his belt and just make sure he focuses and gets the job done."
Mark summing up Lewis's performance and almost getting it right.
"Pressure. Performed. 100%. Faultless."
Mark on flag marshals:
"Maybe those waved yellow flags should have been stagnant yellow flags."
He became a pundit and weatherman rolled into one:
"It literally does look like there's possible rain on the horizon."
He revealed that Felipe Massa is inflatable:
"Massa's needed pumping up a little bit at the start of the season."
He could tell when Lewis's race had started:
"He just managed to take Raikkonen off the start line and that's where his race started."
Asked if it had been a good start to the season for DC:
"It's been terry dough... very tough for David."
In Italy 2008 he started messing with our heads and using weird concepts.
"Lewis didn't have the confidence, because there wasn't the confidence out there."
For F1's night race Blundell came up with one of his all-time greatest. Talking about Sebastian Vettel's mature drive in the previous race, Mark waxed lyrical:
"He's got such a balanced pair of shoulders with an old head."
ITV's F1 coverage went out on an all-time high with the most dramatic GP ever seen and Mark rose to the occasion. He introduced a particularly nice fruit analogy for tyres in qualifying:
"They've only got goodness left in them for this big lap you put in."
At the end of the race he came up with two Blundell gems to treasure for all time.
"Sao Paulo is predictably variable."
and
"...a last lap wot made the GP very special."
Ayrton Senna: WDC 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
McLaren: WCC 1974, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2007
McLaren: WDC 1974, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2008
Who gives a toss what he thinks except the brits??
, dang intranet always tryin to keep a brotha down! 
, please carry on I wont interfere any more now that my bipolar med's have kicked in