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Thanks for memories

The team to front the all-new Sky Sports F1 HD channel has been unveiled. Pete Gill caught up with Martin Brundle and co and asked each of the new-look line-up to select their favourite Formula 1 memory...

Pete Gill caught up with the Sky Sports F1 HD team and asked each to select their favourite Formula 1 memory.

Martin Brundle

My favourite F1 moment has to be Brazil 2008. There are so many players in this particular tale - which was a horror movie for some people - with Felipe Massa crossing the line thinking he was champion and then, with Timo Glock slowing down on the wrong tyres, Lewis Hamilton taking him on the last corner to become champion. We cut to the Massa family who were ecstatic at first and then crestfallen in a blink., and then back to Hamilton as he celebrated his victory. Just amazing sport - and just pure Formula 1.

David Croft

I'm going to choose my abiding image from when I was growing up and watching F1: the crazy punch-up in Germany in 1982 when Nelson Piquet was trying to lamp Eliseo Salazar. It was the world's most ridiculous fight because they both had their helmets on and Piquet was still trying to hit him and I was thinking 'Nelson, he's still got his crash helmet on, this really is the most stupid idea'

Ted Kravitz

It has to be when I was in the McLaren garage at the Canadian GP this season when Jenson Button was storming through the field. He was the only guy who could make his tyres work in the wet and was hunting down Sebastian Vettel as the laps ran out. Then Vettel made a mistake, Jenson took the win...and the emotional outpouring of screaming and shouting in the McLaren garage is something I will never forget.

Simon Lazenby

When I was nine years old, I remember watching F1 with my old man and saying 'Daddy, what's that?' And it was Nigel Mansell climbing out of his car when it had run out of fuel and he was having to push it in one hundred degree temperatures and - we can laugh about it now because he lived to tell the tale - he basically collapsed in a heap and banged his head on a wheel.

Georgie Thompson

Lewis Hamilton winning the championship because of the way in which he did it. He'd come so very close in his debut season and then to take the title in Brazil on the very last lap was breathtaking. Suddenly you realised he was about to take fifth - which he needed to the win the championship - and you think 'Oh my god'...

Natalie Pinkham

It has to be my earliest F1 memory which was going to Silverstone with my dad in 1988, it poured with rain, but it was amazing. I had grown up in Northamptonshire and I was always nagging my dad to take me and eventually he did. I don't remember a huge amount of it, just the noise and the smell and, erm, the rain...

Anthony Davidson

Mine was Silverstone 1987, when I stood at Stowe when Nigel Mansell overtook Nelson Piquet for the lead of the race in the dying laps. I didn't actually see it because I was at the back of the crowd but it was incredible just to be there..."

Steve Rider

My favourite memory has to be when the crowd came over the barriers for Nigel Mansell's win at Silverstone. Not only was I in the studio but I had been given the chore during the course of the day of babysitting two young guests who had been dumped in the commentary box. Who happened to be Prince William and Prince Harry. I was trying to explain to them what was going on, but I won't tell you what Prince William told me when they went over the barriers as that will get me locked up in the Tower!

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