Murray Walker
Murray Walker
Graeme Murray Walker, OBE, known as Murray Walker, is an English semi-retired Formula One motorsport commentator and journalist. For most of his career he worked for the BBC, but when it lost the contract for Formula One coverage to ITV, he continued commentating after the change of broadcaster...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth10 October 1923
expected miss
Well, I did miss it, more than I expected; and I had expected to miss it enormously.
order prophecies turned
You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.
exactly
Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.
totally
I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.
believe
I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.
excuse
And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.
belgium eight everywhere presumably
Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.
half whether
He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.
unless
Unless I'm very much mistaken... I am very much mistaken.
major problem
I don't know what happened, but there was a major malmisorganization problem there.
cars filling four
Fantastic! There are four different cars filling the first four places.
cover exciting slightly
I like to think I cover over as a slightly over-the-top enthusiast. It is a very exciting sport, after all.
memories racing having-fun
Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has...
reality past happened
That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.