In what might be interpreted as a veiled criticism of his former BBC F1 commentating partner Jonathan Legard, Martin Brundle has of🦩fered some insight into what he expects from his relationship with David Coulthard in 2011 - insisting he won't constantly plag🐷ue the Scot for explanations or 'give him gormless questions'.

Having been exclusively predicted by mahbx.com before Christmas [see separate story - 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:click here], the BBC finally confirmed last week that Legard had been dropped by the corporation's F1 team to be replaced by 13-time grand prix-winner turned expert pundit Coulthard [see separate story - 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:click here] - with the common perception being that the popular and as such highly influential Brundle had played no small part in the shuffꦏle.

It is widely-believed that the lack of chemistry established between Brundle and Legard over the past two seasons was the key catalyst behind the former's push to successfully drive the latter out - and the erstwhile McLaren, Ligier, Benetton and Jordan star seemed to corroborate that when speaking about both the ex-Radio 5 Live man and Coulthard at the annual Autosport Internation🌠al pre-season show at the weekend.

"'DC' has got such a knowledge of F1 and such banter to go with it, that I am confident he will have plenty to say about a race," the Englishman assured. "I can do the shouty bits when I have to, and yes it is a different job so I will do it differentlꦿy - but I won't pretend I won't know what I am talking about.

"I won't give him gormless questions like, 'oh that right rear tyre looks a bit odd, doesn't it David?' We'll discuss it among ourselves. We wil𝕴l agree, disagree, we will throw to the pit-lane and we will tell the story of F1."

There is, however, some consternation that with Brundle not being a trained journalist as his predecessors Legard, James Allen and Murray Walker all have been, and Coulthard possessing no prior commentating experience, the new line-up is a risk for all concerned - and whilst between them, the pair might have tremendous F1 knowledge, in order to broaden the BBC's appeal, they will n♋eed to reach out to the casual Sunday afternoon te⛎levision viewer rather than catering more specifically to the sport's die-hard aficionados.

One theory that has been mooted by our colleagues at Planet-F1 is that given that he is now the wrong side of 50 and consequently increasingly out-of-touch with modern-day technology in the top flight - something with which, for example, Radio 5 Live's Anthony Davidson is conversely perfectly au fait - Brundle orchestrated the commentary box changes to pro🐼tect his own career, given that his new role is now to speak about the sport in very general terms for all to understand, leaving the technical talk to Coulthar🍎d.

One thing that will be maintained, happily, is the much-love🃏d pre-race 'grid walk' feature - although not quite everywhere.

"I am happy to give up a few grids," Brundle revealed. "At ITV I used to do two out of three, which𓆉 is about right, frankly. I have done it for🍌 14 years and there are only so many ways that you can run up-and-down 24 cars and a safety car and keep coming up with fresh material."