{"id":75295,"date":"2025-05-05T02:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75295\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T02:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:00:04","slug":"i-was-dying-inside-f1-fans-stunned-after-martin-brundle-congratulates-conor-benn-despite-boxer-losing-to-eubank-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75295\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I was dying inside’ – F1 fans stunned after Martin Brundle CONGRATULATES Conor Benn despite boxer losing to Eubank Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORMULA ONE fans were left stunned after Martin Brundle CONGRATULATED Conor Benn for his loss to Chris Eubank Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n

F1<\/a> favourite Brundle was in the paddock hunting for celebs ahead of the Miami Grand Prix<\/a> when the incident happened.<\/p>\n

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F1 fans were stunned by Martin Brundle’s interview with Conor BennCredit: Sky Sports\"Conor<\/a><\/p>\n

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Benn lost his grudge match to Chris Eubank Jr last monthCredit: PA<\/p>\n

Brundle charged towards Benn for a quick chat.<\/p>\n

But he left supporters amazed when he congratulated the ace on his defeat.<\/p>\n

Benn was beaten on points in his grudge match with Eubank Jr<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n

Yet that didn\u2019t stop Brundle from praising Benn\u2019s efforts.<\/a><\/p>\n

After introducing himself, Brundle said: \u201cWow, what a boxing match that was, congratulations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benn took it in his stride though, saying: \u201cThank you, I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthought it was a great fight, I didn\u2019t get the W which I can for, so hopefully we\u2019ll run it back in September and I can make amends.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my first time here, it\u2019s absolutely amazing, what an event, what an occasion, I see why loads of people turn up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fans certainly found Brundle\u2019s interaction with Benn hilarious.<\/p>\n

One said: \u201cI was dying inside.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Another declared: \u201cFelt stressed watching it, so awkward.\u201d<\/p>\n

One added: \u201cBrundle usually quick on his toes, not this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri showed Max Verstappen who the daddy was to win the Miami Grand Prix on the Dutchman\u2019s big weekend.<\/p>\n

Lando Norris also came in second as McLaren stole the show on the weekend where Verstappen welcomed his first child<\/a> and secured pole position for Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

The Dutchman, whose partner Kelly Piquet gave birth to their daughter Lily ahead of the Miami Grand Prix, settled for fourth, behind George Russell in third.<\/p>\n

Ferrari suffered more team orders chaos as Lewis Hamilton<\/a> was left fuming with his race engineer over swapping positions with Charles Leclerc as the seven-time world champion finished eighth behind the other Ferrari in seventh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORMULA ONE fans were left stunned after Martin Brundle CONGRATULATED Conor Benn for his loss to Chris Eubank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,21609,21610,4199,5267,9823,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-75295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-chris-eubank-jr","10":"tag-conor-benn","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-martin-brundle","13":"tag-section-sportmotorsport","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}