Kim Kardashian has come under fire after a toe-curling encounter with legendary TV reporter and former driver Martin Brundle at the Monaco Grand Prix.
On Sunday, the reality star was approached by Martin in a bid to interview her for Sky News, but Kim chose to ignore him, refusing to say a single word before they turned to their entourage in a bid to seemingly get him moved away.
While the awkward moment prompted viewers to call Kim ‘rude and arrogant’, it should be pointed out that Kim’s boyfriend Lewis Hamilton has also had a very tense exchange with Martin.
During last year’s British Grand Prix, Martin was quick to bring up a photograph Lewis had posed for that year outside Enzo Ferarri’s house to mark his switch from Mercedes to Ferrari, calling it ‘one of the most iconic photographs ever in Formula 1.’
While Lewis thanked him for the compliment, he was quick to get a jibe in as he stated: ‘That means a lot coming from you. You don’t have too many positive things always to say’, prompting an indignant Martin to fire back: ‘That’s not true!’
Although the exchange was tense it was nothing compared to some of Lewis’ previous outbursts, with the decorated Formula 1 diver no stranger to throwing trackside tantrums when things don’t go his way.
Now, the Daily Mail takes a look at Lewis’ many meltdowns over the years.
Kim Kardashian has come under fire after a toe-curling encounter with legendary TV reporter and former driver Martin Brundle at the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday
Kim’s boyfriend Lewis Hamilton also had a very tense exchange with Martin during last year’s British Grand Prix (pictured together in 2019)
Lewis’ ‘unbearable anger and rage’
Lewis admitted to an ‘unbearable amount of anger and rage’ as his bid to end his dreadful first Ferrari season on a high fell flat in December.
His latest setback saw him qualify only 16th in Abu Dhabi – which, alarmingly, represented progress after the horror shows of recent weeks, having qualified 20th and last in Las Vegas, and 17th in Qatar.
‘Every time, mate,’ he lamented over the radio after finding himself two-and-half tenths behind Charles Leclerc, and finally 11 places back.
This is a poor Ferrari, no doubt, but not as delinquent as Lewis is making it look.
As he walked back to the garage, the old master wiped his brow through his helmet, pondering why he has been outgunned 19 times in 24 qualifying sessions by the Monegasque in the other red car.
He later said: ‘I don’t have the words to describe the feeling inside me.
‘There is just an unbearable amount of anger and rage.
‘There is not really much I can say about it.’
His qualifying woes followed a crash in final practice that inflicted serious damage on the front of his Ferrari, leaving his mechanics with a repair job against the clock.
After losing control of his car at the high-speed turn nine, he spun into the barrier at speed.
Lewis was able to walk away from the scene, picking up a piece of his front wing and placing it in his stricken motor as he left.
‘Something buckled at the front and snapped the rear,’ he told his mechanics over the team radio.
Calling Max Verstappen ‘f***ing crazy’
Lewis called Max Verstappen ‘f***ing crazy’ after their race during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in the 2021 season (Max pictured in January)
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Lewis won the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix to move level with Max Verstappen on 369.5 points back in the 2021 season.
In the race, Max was red-flagged twice, with Lewis winning by 21 seconds, but only after he was hit with a total of 15 seconds in penalties.
The pair collided on lap 37 after Max had been instructed to hand the lead back to Lewis.
He then slowed down to allow Lewis to pass, but the Dutchman then decided to brake suddenly before accelerating into the corner as the pair collided.
Lewis vented: ‘This guy’s f***ing crazy, man.’
Later in the race, Lewis accused Max of deliberately slowing down in front of him to cause them to collide.
‘He just brake-tested me,” he said over the team radio. ‘That was dangerous driving.’
Despite winning the race, he later doubled down on his criticism of the Dutchman, saying: ‘I’ve raced a lot of drivers in my life, in the (last) 28 years.
‘There’s a few at the top which are over the limit. Rules kinda don’t apply, or they don’t think of the rules.
‘He’s over the limit, for sure. I’ve avoided collision on so many occasions with the guy.’
Letting loose on the Mercedes crew
Lewis lambasted Mercedes, who he was with at the time, on the radio after their strategic call, which swung the outcome of the Dutch Grand Prix.
In September 2022, after a Dutch Grand Prix which saw his hopes for a first win of the season fade due to fading tyres, he took out his anger on the team.
The driver had been leading until 10 laps to go when a safety car was deployed, and most of the grid dove into the pits for fresh soft tyres, while Mercedes kept him out on the mediums.
When racing got underway again, arch-nemesis Max Verstappen got by him, before team-mate George Russell and Charles Leclerc passed to bump him down to fourth.
‘I can’t believe you guys f***ing screwed me, man. I can’t tell you how p****d I am right now,’ he blasted. Lewis later told Sky F1.
‘I was just on the edge of breaking point with emotions and my apologies to the team because I don’t even remember what I said, I just lost it for a second.’
Unfortunately, he didn’t take home a win that season, meaning it was the first campaign since his debut in 2007 that he failed to stand on the top of the podium.
Pushing Fernando Alonso to make a ‘mistake’
Lewis and Fernando Alonso were famously at loggerheads in 2007 during his debut season with McLaren
Lewis and Fernando Alonso were famously at loggerheads in 2007 during his debut season with McLaren.
The Spaniard was coming off the back of two consecutive titles with Renault, but after his move to McLaren, his upstart rookie team-mate proved nippier than anyone imagined.
It wasn’t so much verbal outbursts that defined their feud, but their actions.
In Monaco in 2007, Lewis pushed Fernando hard in the closing stages of the race despite being under instructions to stay behind him and bring home a one-two finish.
Asked if he was trying to cause the racer to make a mistake, Lewis said ‘absolutely,’ adding: ‘The only way to get past is to apply pressure.’
Later that season, Lewis failed to honour an agreement to allow Fernando to pass him during qualifying, before the Spaniard retaliated by blocking him in the pit lane.
McLaren paid the price for the petty feud.
Both drivers finished that season with 109 points, one behind the Drivers’ Championship winner, Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari.
Threatening to quit Mercedes
After the Brazilian Grand Prix in 2024. Lewis dubbed his race day with Mercedes the ‘worst it has ever been’ on a ‘disaster of a weekend’.
The race saw him finish 11th in the sprint race and 10th the following day, with him threatening to quit the season altogether.
He failed to wrench the car under his control in Sunday morning’s delayed qualifying session.
The seven-time world champion subsequently crashed out in Q1 and was forced to start from the 14th after qualifying two places lower.
‘That was a disaster of a weekend guys,’ he ranted on the radio. ‘That’s the worst the car has ever been.
‘But thank you for continuing to try, and great job to the guys at the pitstop.
‘If this is the last time I get to perform,’ he added, hinting at a potential early end to his season, ‘it’s a shame it wasn’t great, but (I’m) grateful for you.’
Speaking after the race, Lewis doubled down on his criticism of the car, adding that it was enough to make him want to take the rest of the year off.
‘It’s like a plank of wood. It’s like, no suspension,’ he added. ‘It’s bouncing on the tyres everywhere and you can’t get on the power anywhere.
‘It’s just the worst ride, I think the worst ride that we’ve definitely ever had, particularly through corners. It’s just so stiff.
‘But hopefully we won’t have any more bumpy tracks. I think the last three aren’t so bumpy. But yeah, I could happily go and take a holiday.’
Giving Nico Rosberg the cold shoulder
Lewis had a strained relationship with Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, despite them being childhood friends
Lewis and Nico Rosberg were childhood friends.
They grew up together playing football and tennis, even riding unicycles.
But their relationship was scorched by tension when they were teammates at Mercedes.
Lewis was unhappy after the 2014 Monaco GP, which saw Nico win and claim the lead in the title race.
Lewis felt that Nico should have been penalised in qualifying, but the German was not, and he went on to claim pole and subsequently the race win.
Mercedes secured a fifth consecutive one-two finish.
However, Lewis fumed: ‘We have one absolutely amazing strategist but unfortunately, the role in the team is that he has to look out for number one and the second guy comes second.
‘I know from the get-go that I have less of an opportunity to win the race.’
He added: ‘We’re not friends (Nico and I). We’re colleagues.’
Asked if their years of knowing each other do not count as friendship, he could not respond.
Lewis managed to win the title that season on the final day.
But when the German finally won the championship in 2016, he needed persuading to shake his long-time team-mate’s hand.
