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Bodyguards banned from F1 grid after Brundle incident

Formula 1 has banned celebrities from bringing bodyguards to the starting grid after an incident with commentator and former driver Martin Brundle at last month's United States Grand Prix in Austin. The 62-year-old Briton, a former teammate of Germany's seven-times F1 world champion Michael Schumacher, was doing his popular pre-race ‘grid walk' for Sky television in Austin when he tried to catch a word with rapper Megan Thee Stallion. After approaching with a microphone to enquire whether she had any rap for F1, and being asked if she had 'no rap today', Brundle asked her who she was supporting. A flustered bodyguard then told him he could not do that. 'I can do that, because I did,'...
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