Sky Sports commentator Martin Brundle revealed that he suffered a minor heart attack while working during the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix.
Brundle revealed that fell ill immediately after Lewis Hamilton’s victory at Monte Carlo, “I had a small heart attack running to do the podium in Monaco.”
Despite this he carried on working and conducted the podium interviews with the top three, Hamilton, Daniel Ricciardo and Sergio Perez.
“I ended up with a 23mm stent in my left arterial descending,” explained Brundle. “So I didn’t think I could do the race and the cardio guy said: yeah, you can do the race, just don’t forget your blood thinner”
A mere two weeks after his operation he competed in the Le Mans 24 Hours support race in an LMP3 car, claiming pole position for the race in which he finished second.
“I went to Palmersport and did 75 laps in a car and thought yeah, I can do this. I had bruises coming out of my chest but I thought: I love Le Mans, I’m not going to miss this.”
“I sat at the press conference and there was a 17-year-old and a 19-year-old sitting alongside me and I thought ‘that’s not bad for an old geezer, 57’. We finished second in the race which was unfortunate, not first,” recalled Brundle.
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