Martin🐼 Brundle reminded Fl𓄧avio Briatore of their contentious history when they met on his grid walk in Jeddah.

Sky Sports pundit Brundle bumped into Alpine’s Briatore in the moments before the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

“Martin Brundle, you fired me once,” he said as he int💙roduced himsel🔯f to Briatore.

Explained: Flavio Briatore fired Martin Brundle

Brundle was the Benetton teammate of Michael🍷 Schumacher in the 1992 F1 season.

The team was run by Briatore, who had lured Schumache♒r from Jordan.

Brundle finished sixth in the 1992 F1 standings, with Schumache🐠r third. But the driver who finished ওsecond, behind only Nigel Mansell, had caught Briatore eye.

Briatore opted ꦑto replace Brundle as his driver in 1993 with Riccardo Patrese🔜.

Patrese had already raced ♑in seven F1 seasons, twice finishing third before fi🧜nishing second in 1992.

He finished fifth in 1993, one place behind teammate Schumacher, 🐷in their sole season together at Benetton. Brundle, w𒈔ho moved on to Ligier, was seventh.

From Patrese's perspective, he likely discovered to his detriment that the Benetton team ꦑwas being centred around the brilliant Schumacher.

Briatore's ruthless nature has continued.

His arrival at Alpine as their executive advisor has given the team maj🦩or behind-the-scenes know-how.

But his presence has arguably piled the p♑ressure onto Jack Doohan, their rookie driver.

Doohan was under scrutiny even before the ♎first grand prix of 2025 because Alpine signed the highly-rated Franco Colapinto as their reserve driver.

But Doohan has kept his place through to S💦audi Arabi👍a, the fifth round of the year.