“As racing drivers do, you could drive every track. I drove every track in my mind, and thought, ‘that’s got to be in, and that’s got to be in.’”
With some circuits, that’s not such an easy task. If I were Brundle, I would have pleaded to miss out Abu Dhabi altogether, but he did at least manage to find the “one decent corner” at Sochi for the Russian Grand Prix.
“Can you imagine going uphill the first corner at the Circuit of the Americas, then going into the Senna ‘S’, then into Copse, Becketts, and then up the hill to Casino Square?” Brundle says. “It would be unbelievable.”
The only debate left is which country would Brundle have it in? “The Maldives”. The winter break still hasn’t worn off just yet.
Given my comparative proximity to childhood, I had been hoping to have the edge of the former McLaren and Tyr relldriver, but alas, I was hopeless. While my best lap took 41 seconds, Brundle was almost twice as fast. He was going serenely round and round, while I continually crashed into Montreal’s wall of champions, spinning at China’s hairpin not long after.
I quickly deployed the classic racing driver excuses (I had the slower car, and was on the tougher line) but it was no use. Fiercer opposition is to come. “It’s going to get competitive with me, Johnny [Herbert] and Damon [Hill].”
All that’s left is for Bernie Ecclestone, Formula One’s ringmaster, to build the life-size version. “If somebody else paid for it I’m sure he would think about it,” Brundle jokes.
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