Brundle is rendered speechless on Sky Sports by Danica Patrick

It all started with a remarkable statement by Patrick. “It's not a super challenging track, I think you just need the car balanced right,” said the Sky Sports presenter.

The camera then cut to Brundle's face who for about three seconds was dumbfounded by what he had just heard and stared straight into the TV camera. Generally, the Gilles Villeneuve Circuit is indeed considered a technically challenging circuit.

The circuit features tight and fast chicanes, with Turn 3 being a downward fast right-left-hander that rolls down into a wall. It was at this point where Charles Leclerc smashed his Ferrari in FP1. Then there's Turns 7 and 8 where, the Canadian track being a rear limited circuit it is very easy to lock the rears and lose control of the car temporarily, something which happened to George Russell, Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and others.

The hairpin and, of course, the notorious Wall of Champions, where Max Verstappen brushed the wall in FP1. The Dutchman was a shocking zero centimeters from the wall as he pushed on to extrack the maximum amount of lap time.

In FP1 and FP2, it was again clear that it's not just an easy track to drive on. Both in the first and the second free practice session, a driver found the wall. In FP1, it was Charles Leclerc who crashed hard into the inside wall at Turn 4, which broke his car's survival cell, and was thus forced to skip FP2. In the afternoon session, it was Lance Stroll who touched the wall coming out of Turn 8 and broke his suspension.

Martin Brundle garnered attention for several reasons this weekend. He commented on the crash between Verstappen and George Russell in Spain, suggesting that the Dutchman should have received an additional penalty point, which would have meant a race ban for the Red Bull driver. But he also immediately defended Derek Warwick after he was suspended by the FIA for commenting on the race officials' decisions on the ongoings at the Spanish Grand Prix.