Martin Brundle discusses Stormzy 'bromance' as Sky pundit shares rapper's British GP offer

Martin Brundle has explained his ‘bromance’ with Stormzy after interviewing the rapper ahead of his main stage performance at the British Grand Prix. The 30-year-old is chomping at the bit to experience a hot lap with the Sky Sports F1 presenter.

Stormzy and Brundle’s friendship goes back some way after the pair met during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend back in 2021. Since then, the British rapper has always made time for the former Benetton driver on the grid.

A keen F1 fan, Stormzy was one of the many big names booked to play at Silverstone across the race weekend, along with Kings of Leon, Pete Tong and Rudimental. Ahead of his main stage performance, he sat down for an interview with Brundle, where they discussed his career and love for F1.

Discussing their British GP chat, Brundle explained: “We sort of had this unlikely bromance on the grid between me and Stormzy. Then he namedrops me in ‘Angel In The Marble’, one of his tracks. He’s a lovely bloke, he loves F1, he loves Lewis Hamilton.

“And so I got to interview him backstage, but there was another rapper and another group on stage. It was so noisy. I expected a green room with flowing champagne and you know, M&Ms without the green ones or whatever’s in Stormzy’s rider, which he doesn’t appear to…

“And we sat on two packing cases and we were shouting at each other because the microphones are amazing at picking things up but we could barely hear each other. We had a good old chat about all things Stormzy and a bit about Formula One and what have you and then he went out on stage in the pouring rain.”

He later added: “And he wants to come round and meet with me on a hot lap in something as well. But he came back up to me after we finished recording and went ‘Don’t forget that, don’t forget that. I want to go around the track.’ I mean, he’s a tall man so I’m not quite sure what we’re going to fold him into to get him around the track, but we’ll get him in something.”

As explained by Brundle, Stormzy later called him “an OG”, although the 65-year-old wasn’t sure what this meant, and was forced to browse the internet to find out. “I do [know what it means] because I went away and looked it up,” he said. “Original gangster, apparently.”