Machine Gun Kelly has stormed off after being the victim of a reverse “Martin Brundle moment” at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Monday morning.
The Formula 1 icon was back at his best at the Interlagos circuit before the race — which was won by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen — when his traditional grid walk produced entertaining moments.
The Sky Sports F1 guru is used to being the person on the grid that gets snubbed by every A-list celebrity out on the track — but the dynamic shifted dramatically in Sao Paulo when the former driver gave the American rapper nothing during their awkward exchange.
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Things got off to a shaky start when the British reporter grabbed Kelly and asked how things were going in the superstar’s career.
Kelly batted away the question, saying: “My career? I don’t think about my career. I don’t think about it.”
And it only got more awkward when he asked the Sky Sports interviewer to join him for a live air guitar and air piano session.
Brundle uncomfortably declined multiple times by saying: “No there’s millions [of people watching]. You do it!
“I can’t do it, I can’t do it. I probably need to get on because we’ve got some people to see.”
Machine Gun Kelly was left furious that he didn’t join him in a peculiar jam session and stormed off from the interview and away from the camera.
Brundle joked as he moved on that the Hollywood star may not be his biggest fan after the interaction.
He said: “Something tells me I won’t be on his Christmas card list.”
F1 commentator Matt Gallagher described it as the “weirdest Matin Brundle interview yet”.
England Test cricket great Graeme Swann called it “magnificently awkward”.
F1 reporter Rob Myers, however, said the traditional grid walk is “past its used by date”
It may not have even been Brundle’s most awkward moment of the day.
Fans loved the moment he gave former Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone a brutal tongue-lashing on live TV.
Ecclestone last month admitted to failing to declare a £400million trust fund to the tax office in the UK.
Brundle couldn’t help but make a cheeky comment about Ecclestone’s troubles when they met on the grid.
“You had quite an amazing month with His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs,” Brundle said.
Ecclestone didn’t know how to respond.
It was a triumphant return for Brundle, who last week did not do the track walk by Sky Sports.
Brundle’s growing list of grid walk moments have sent the Formula 1 world into a spin throughout the entirety of the 2023 season.
Fans were left in stitches at the US Grand Prix after he was forced to awkwardly wait his turn to speak to British boxer Anthony Joshua.
Ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix, Aussie rookie Oscar Piastri was dealt a brutal burn when the Sky Sports presenter bailed on him mid-answer.
In Miami it was three-time F1 champ Jackie Stewart who stole the limelight after he was almost manhandled during the grid walk shenanigans.
Hollywood power couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones won fans over with their classy interview ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix.
At the British Grand Prix it was musician Sam Ryder who drew widespread praise for his infectious banter while speaking with Brundle.
But the most famous incident of all also came at the British Grand Prix when Cara Delevingne was brutally roasted after snubbing Brundle.