From: bert@athena.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: Re: BRUNDLE TO WILLIAMS!!!
Date: 12 Oct 92 07:37:45 GMT

t9014143@phillip.edu.au writes:
>In article <Meonw7S00awP4DNF8P@andrew.cmu.edu>, jmb3+@andrew.cmu.edu (Juan Jose Mata) writes:
>> So, it sure looks like Brundle's little piece in Autoweek this week
>> softened some hearts in the hard-hearted F1 world ... :)

>	Could you tell some of us who don't get autoweek
>	what was generally said by Brundle.

... ask and ye shall receive... :-)

cheers,

bert

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(reprinted without permission, AW 05 Oct 1992):

New Goal: A Place to Race in '93 by Martin Brundle

A lot has happened since we last spoke.

By now you know that my contract with Camel Benetton Ford was not renewed for
1993, and that's a real pity because it has been a great season after my first
four disastrous races.  I have my head into gear now.  I am the fron end of a
Grand Prix field and have had some great races.  I have virtually not done a
lap out of the top six.  I have scored points in every race since Imola,
except Canada when the car failed when I should have won my first GP.

So my whole season has really turned around.  I have established my name up
there as, let's say, a second division after the mega-stars.  I am right in
there now, and I have to jump up there with Senna and Mansell in the first
division.

It has been a very successful season.  I had a target of scoring regular
points, being on the podium, and making sure Benetton was ahead of Ferrari.
We have accomplished all of that.  So I look back on the year with a lot of
pleasure.

One of the highlights was holding off Senna to finish third in my home GP at
Silverstone.  In the last two races I finished second in Italy two weeks ago
and took fourth in Portugal.  I really enjoyed the race in Italy.  It was a
very good, solid drive -- aggressive when I needed to be.  I could match
anything my teammate, Michael Schumacher, had to offer mid-race just to keep
him at a set distance so he couldn't trouble me.  I just made sure he couldn't
get me in sight.  I couldn't catch Senna without destroying my tires, so I
concentrated on holding onto second.  The spectators at the end were
fantastic.  It was close to being on the podium at Silverstone and winning the
LeMans 24 Hours (_Autoweek_ readers may remember I was on the rostrum with a
second in '84 in Detroit.  I count it but the official results do not as the
Tyrrells were disqualified for ``technical infringements.'')

As for leaving Benetton, I'm sad but not bitter.  It's their company, their F1
team, their option.  I'm on good terms with the team.  I don't see any point
in falling out over that.  And you just have to accept that and start looking
around.

All this spurs my motivation on even more.  I'm very much a team player --
always have been -- and I think that's been a key for what's helped Benetton
move forward in what's easily been their best year ever.  I'm a team player,
but maybe my focus is a little bit more toward Martin Brundle right now than
Benetton.  Inevitably.  It's my future.

Indycars would be an option that I'd consider very strongly with the right
team and right environment.  I'd like to do Indianapolis.  I've done LeMan,
F1, touring cars, rallying, rallycross, IROC ... I've done every type of of
motor racing you can think of, and I'd quite like to do the Indy 500.  I've
always enjoyed the U.S. racing scene.  But I'm focused on F1 and ideally I'd
like to work in that direction.

Here in F1, my name's been linked to Williams.  I have not signed a contract
for the Williams team.  I understand I am very high on the list, if not at the
top of the list.  The team will make a decision at the end of the week.

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