Martin Brundle speaks out on claims he blanked celebrity twice in 'painful' Silverstone GP grid walk incident

Martin Brundle has spoken retired aft claims that helium blanked a personage doubly during his grid locomotion astatine the British Grand Prix.

On Sunday afternoon, McLaren prima Lando Norris won the British Grand Prix aft an incident-filled race.

The likes of Max Verstappen, George Russell and Charles Leclerc struggled to support their cars wrong the achromatic lines arsenic Norris won up of Oscar Piastri and Nico Hulkenberg.

Prior to the race, each eyes were fixated connected Sky Sports arsenic Brundle conducted his celebrated grid walk.

The ex-Formula 1 prima spoke to the likes of Jeremy Clarkson, Tom Holland, Ian Wright and Hannah Waddingham.

However, fans accused Brundle of blanking a celebrated histrion who was lasting straight down Holland.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who features successful 28 Years Later, was seemingly snubbed by Brundle, and fans were speedy to person their say.

One said: "Every clip Martin Brundle walks past Aaron Taylor Johnson connected his grid locomotion and wholly ignores him, it gets funnier and funnier."

Another tweeted: "Martin Brundle not recognising Aaron Taylor Johnson not erstwhile but TWICE was achy viewing."

Martin Brundle is simply a large portion of Sky Sports' Formula 1 coverage. Image: Getty

A time aft the race, Brundle took to Sky Sports arsenic helium spoke astir his grid walk.

Although helium did not code the evident Taylor-Johnson snub, Brundle did apologise to immoderate celebrities that helium whitethorn person rushed past.

He wrote: "The grid locomotion was tenable fun. Apologies to immoderate celebrated and high-achieving radical I rushed past and failed to chat to, I'm acrophobic I person constricted capableness to walk, talk, think, perceive and meantime cheque retired the faces of hundreds of radical to spot who they are.

"I had a fewer hits connected the caput successful my erstwhile vocation and truthful I request a caller Google hunt and AI chips inserted due to the fact that my encephalon inactive runs connected floppy disks."

F1 volition instrumentality astatine the extremity of July with the Belgian Grand Prix, taking spot astir the Circuit of Spa-Francorchamps.