You don’t have to like F1 to appreciate this hilarious Rowan Atkinson theory at the British Grand Prix
We’ve watched a quite a bit of Formula 1 over the years but we’ve never seen anything on a race track as entertaining as this.
It’s the estimable Martin Brundle doing his usual pre-race interviews with the great and the good at the British Grand Prix at the weekend when he came across Rowan Atkinson.
And this person’s theory – that Atkinson was doing a Brundle impression without Brundle realising – is surely exactly on the money and it’s simply magnificent. Over to you, @neilallison.
Surely this is Rowan Atkinson doing a Martin Brundle impression to Martin Brundle without him (or seemingly anybody else) realising?! pic.twitter.com/ikyXyE9ZRB
— Neil Allison (@neilallison) July 9, 2024
Bravo, Rowan Atkinson.
Genuinely baffled that nobody on the internet appears to have noticed that this isn’t his normal voice!
— Neil Allison (@neilallison) July 10, 2024
Incredible https://t.co/U8qnK99SPA
— Gav (@PenwithGav) July 10, 2024
Honestly I thought the exact thing straight away but no one else was mentioning it so I thought I was going mad
— Sam (@essjayarr) July 10, 2024
I thought his voice sounded weird when I watched it, how did I not clock this https://t.co/Pn5NJyyR0R
— Jimmy (@EntireDesign_) July 10, 2024
@Jorc94 @AdamConv_ this explains it and it’s genius
— Joe (@jm_bell95) July 10, 2024
There was a rival theory about the clip …
Oh hang on. Change-of-mind alert
Somebody has said that it sounds like Murray Walker and they’re right aren’t they? It’s defo more Murray than Martin.
— Neil Allison (@neilallison) July 10, 2024
… and also this one.
Looking at DR's reaction when they start, and seeing that they both corpse, and the faux serious from Atkinson, and there's a whole complicated Not The Nine style wry discussion about being invited by someone famous, think they came up with that off-camera first tbqh https://t.co/o1yZ5OCy3c
— What good are notebooks? (@Zaack23) July 10, 2024
But … nah, we’re sticking with the original. Just brilliant all round.
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