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[kayemod]

I'm sure we're all pleased that Martin Brundle was awarded an honour in the UK New Year Honours List, an OBE, Order of the British Empire, well deserved recognition for services to Broadcasting.

 

Apparently Martin's name for this was put forward for this by a person who goes by the name of 'Megan Thee Stallion', I think I got that right.

[Geoff E]

OBE = Officer of the Order of the British Empire

[Lee Nicolle]

Martin has been part of the scene for a long time. Driver, runner [AGP] commentator, pit lane commentator, now historic racer so I guess he does deserve recognition. Congrats to Mr Brundle

[70JesperOH]

At a time when three drivers were the normal at the Le Mans, Super-John Nielsen preferred two drivers on his and Price Cobb's 1990 TWR Jaguar, keeping Elisio Salazar out the seat as third driver for something like 14 hours. The gearbox was strained with the power of 7 liters of V12 Jaguar power and torque, but Cobb and Nielsen, racing together in the IMSA series at the time, knew how to compensate. 1990 was also the first year of the Mulsanne chicanes, adding a lot of gear changes to the race. At some time during the race Martin Brundle, racing the #1 TWR Jaguar retired and that was the idea of Nielsen, to get Brundle in the #3 car and help win the race. Nielsen trusted that Brundle had both the speed and sympathy of the gearbox to do the job required and proved the right choice.

 

Did Martin Brundle came out of a family of banger racers or was is just his early years in British saloon car racing I remember, but he has my utmost respect as a racing driver. Challenging Ayrton Senna for the 1983 British Formula 3 Championship takes something!

 

Jesper

[bsc]

Did Martin Brundle came out of a family of banger racers

Brundle did start off, as a child, on banger racing before progressing to other short oval categories such as National Hot Rods.

[RobertE]

He's a good egg; well deserved and congratulations to him...

[Bloggsworth]

Not intending to be contoversial, but it's time that they changed it to OBC, replacing Order with Commonwealth - We seceded the Empire decades ago...

[Sterzo]

I'd vote for OLB - Order of Little Britain.

[PRD]

I believe that the idea is to replace “empire” with “excellence “

[RS2000]

OBE. Known in the UK public services (uniformed and non-uniformed) as "Other B*ggers Efforts".....

[Salsin]

https://i.postimg.cc.../n6916-09-A.jpg

 

Not banger racing but his father John was a regular competitor in autocross. This is John competing at the RR Derby round of the Players No.6 Autocross championship on 29/6/69 (my photo).

Mike Dodman.

[PayasYouRace]

OBE = Officer of the Order of the British Empire

So many people get that wrong.

[kayemod]

So many people get that wrong.

 

 

True if you want to be pedantic, but the full names of these orders are rarely needed,  just using the universally accepted shorter version certainly isn't "wrong".

 

Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)

 

Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)

 

Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)

[PayasYouRace]

True if you want to be pedantic, but the full names of these orders are rarely needed, just using the universally accepted shorter version certainly isn't "wrong".

Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)

The O stands for Officer, which is the bit everyone gets wrong.

[Catalina Park]

The Q is for the post office.

[Lee Nicolle]

OBE = Officer of the Order of the British Empire

My father called it 'over bloody eighty' when he turned eighty!

[john aston]

The OBE is typically awarded to long standing senior public servants . It stands for 'Other Buggers' Efforts '  

[RCH]

.

 

Did Martin Brundle came out of a family of banger racers or was is just his early years in British saloon car racing I remember, but he has my utmost respect as a racing driver. Challenging Ayrton Senna for the 1983 British Formula 3 Championship takes something!

 

Jesper

Martin;s father John Brundle was a fairly well known rally driver in his day. Driving his ex-works Triumph 2.5PI he almost ran me over when he turned the wrong way out of a white on a road rally in the Midlands. Realising his mistake he turned round and stopped to talk to a family group just up the road, one of the small boys in the group I assume was Martin.

John had a Toyota dealership in Norfolk,

[TFBundy]

Meanwhile, as "Should have been Sir" John Surtees told his MV Agusta mechanics, his MBE stood for Motor Bike Engineer!

 

FWIW somewhere on YouTube there's a 1970s video of John Brundle racing a brand new Toyota Celica "demonstrator" in a quarter mile oval Hot Rod/Banger race!

[Nick Planas]

True if you want to be pedantic, but the full names of these orders are rarely needed,  just using the universally accepted shorter version certainly isn't "wrong".

 

Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)

 

Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)

 

Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)

There was a well-known joke (appeared on the Goon show in the '50s but could be older) that if you got your OBE, and later on became an Earl, you would become an earlobe...

 

But on a serious note, this is well deserved.