Brundle first drove a kart at eight years old. He began car racing in 2006 in the T Cars saloon-car series for 14-to-17-year-olds, finishing eighth. In the closing months of 2006 he also tried Formula Palmer Audi in the Autumn Trophy, finishing twenty-first. He returned to FPA full-time in 2007, finishing eleventh in the championship and returning for the Autumn Trophy to improve to eighth.
For 2008, Brundle had a stronger FPA season, claiming a pole position and three podiums on his way to sixth in the championship. His father Martin also entered the Spa round of the championship that year, inspired by Alex's progress.
Brundle signed with the relaunched FIA Formula Two Championship in 2009, finishing nineteenth in the standings with five points. He returned for the 2011 season and performed considerably better, taking a pole position at Magny-Cours and podium finishes in both races there. He secured a further third place at Monza, finishing seventh in the standings and as the highest-placed British driver in the championship that year.
Brundle contested the 2010 British Formula 3 Championship with the T-Sport team, finishing seventeenth overall across thirty rounds with a best finish of eighth.
In February 2012, Brundle signed with Carlin Motorsport for the GP3 Series season, which ran as a support series to the European Formula One calendar. He opened his account with a tenth-place finish at the Spanish Grand Prix feature race and added eighth in the sprint race the following day. His season highlight came at Budapest, where he claimed his first GP3 podium in race two.
Brundle's most sustained success has come in prototype endurance racing. He made his Le Mans debut in 2012 in an LMP2 Zytek-Nissan for Greaves Motorsport alongside his father Martin. The pair won the Woolf Barnato Trophy as the highest-finishing British drivers in a British car at the 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours.
In the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship, Brundle finished second in the LMP2 drivers' championship for OAK Racing and also achieved second in class at the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans.
He finished fifth at the 2014 Rolex 24 at Daytona driving for Muscle Milk Pickett Racing, then returned to OAK for the North American Endurance Cup events in the United SportsCar Championship that year, winning the Total Pole Award for the most poles scored across the season.
The 2016 season proved his most successful as a driver. Racing in the European Le Mans Series with United Autosports in LMP3, Brundle took a pole position, three victories, and two further podiums to win the championship. He also joined G-Drive Racing for the final five rounds of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship, winning the last three races and taking an additional podium.
Alongside his driving career, Brundle has worked as a motorsport commentator. He is particularly associated with the FIA Formula 2 and FIA Formula 3 Championships, where he has served as a co-commentator alongside Alex Jacques during race weekends.
The Brundle family name is well established in motorsport through Martin Brundle's lengthy F1 career and subsequent decades as one of the sport's most recognisable television voices. Alex and Martin competing together at Le Mans and sharing moments such as the 2012 Spa FPA round have made theirs one of the more visible father-son partnerships in recent European motorsport.
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