Martin Brundle calls out Gary Lineker over a tweet supporting climate protesters: “Please don’t encourage this reckless behaviour”
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Martin Brundle feels that protestors shouldn't put themselves and others at risk.
Yesterday’s British Grand Prix was an extremely chaotic but exhilarating race. There was an early red flag during the race with multiple drivers involved in incidents, most notably Alex Albon, George Russell, and Zhou Guanyu.
Following the red flag, as the drivers prepared to come into the pits, climate protestors invaded the track and sat onto the Wellington straight. Earlier, they had been issued a warning on Friday by Northamptonshire Police to not do this. As reported by Sky Sports, the protestors were dragged away from the track as the drivers went by, and seven arrests were made.
On the track invasion, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali had said: “Everyone has the right to speak out on issues, but no one has the right to put lives in danger. The actions of a small group of people today were completely irresponsible and dangerous.” Lewis Hamilton had also asked for protestors to do so safely, and not put themselves in harm’s way.
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Martin Brundle asks people to protest responsibly
Former English footballer, Gary Lineker, who now works for BBC Sport, had quote-tweeted a video of a ‘Just Stop Oil’ member appearing on ‘Good Morning Britain’, and said: “If it’s not already too late, history will look back very favourably on these people.”
Martin Brundle did not feel the same way as his compatriot and said: “Gary please don’t encourage this reckless behaviour. They’d have been sliced into 100 pieces and fans, marshals and drivers were wholly at risk of injury and death.”
“We already had one lucky escape. I totally 100% support freedom of speech and opinion, but do it responsibly.”
To Brundle’s retort, Lineker responded: “Way more risk of death with climate change to everyone than there is attempting to delay a motor race.”
Aside from Lewis Hamilton, Carlos Sainz and Sebastian Vettel had also expressed some sympathy for the climate protestors, but both still agreed that the protests must be done safely and not by putting people in harm’s way.
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