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
Murray Walker quotes about
lap
This is lap 54 - after that it's 55, 56, 57, 58...
cars filling four
Fantastic! There are four different cars filling the first four places.
major problem
I don't know what happened, but there was a major malmisorganization problem there.
compared looks seventeen though year
It looks as though this year there will be seventeen Grands Prix for the World Championship, compared with the traditional seventeen.
expected miss
Well, I did miss it, more than I expected; and I had expected to miss it enormously.
half whether
He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.
race racing lasts
Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him
funny motor-racing racing
Mansell can see him in his earphone.
motor-racing safe opinion
Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.
funny motor-racing car
And the first five places are filled by five different cars.
race opposites situation
We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.
long racing facts
IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
funny years motor-racing
That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.
funny men motor-racing
And there's the man in the green flag!