This the Cara Delevigne thing on the Silverstone grid walk?

These people are not just "attending a race". They are on the grid minutes before a race, a grid that is heavily covered with cameras. As Martin says (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ3lKU8JpMo), it's an explicit part of the deal now (after Miami) that if you want to be on the grid that you have to be willing to be interviewed. That seems a reasonable exchange for an amazing privilege. And if you've made that deal, you should hold up your end of the bargain.

The above argument didn't apply in Miami because the rule wasn't there. It was a more understandable incident. That said Miami still annoyed me. If you're going to attend an F1 race and be granted these privileges, surely you should have a little respect for the sport, the people that are involved and the TV coverage? Most of us would jump at the chance to be on the grid, that opportunity felt wasted on someone if they're only there to look cool and don't care about where it is they're doing that.

Who is to say that Brundle can demand someone interview with him?

F1 and the event organizers could do that if they chose. They haven't, and unless there is some grid access clause that hasn't been reported, Brundle appears to have been mistaken when he said that everyone has to speak... what the 2021 Brundle clause really does is restrict bodyguards from the grid, not require interview participation.

But the grid is a restricted area and F1 and the event organizers can attach conditions to its access. Celebrities get the access they get as a promotional arrangement, and I would have no problem at all with event organizers formally attaching media responsibilities to grid/paddock access and to eject and impose a future ban on anyone who fails to meet them.

Why are we owed that?

We're not, but no one is owed access to the grid either. By leaving one's private box to walk the grid you're entering a live televised media pen and should expect that you're likely to be approached by live media teams if you're a figure of note (and sometimes even if you're a nobody).

The grid walk interviews seldom offer anything meaningful. I wouldn't be upset if they just didn't happen.

I'll never figure it out. The celebraterties on the grid are there to be seen. There's no other reason. When Brundle puts a microphone in your face, you are actually being broadcast to 100's of millions TVs worldwide. That's really good on the seen ratio. What is the upside of refusing that?

I find it hilarious to watch him and his reactions in that frenzied manner. And yeah, everyone on the grid signs a waiver consenting to interviews. They should know better and should be willing to talk. That’s the only reason they should be there.

Who knew, when you try to compel live speech you get shitty speech. The interview exchange is the most contrived medium of exchange ever invented, it actually got a lot of push back when it was first invented or used in news media in the 1850s, presumably for coaxing and normalizing bullshit.

I don't watch grid walks or anything outside of lights out / chequered flag because shoving cameras in faces of people is just a celebrity on celebrity toss off nowadays.