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TK9780 wrote:Hi all

I’ve always thought that Murray Walker and James Hunt made the best combination.
The latest offering of commentators spend far too much time talking about LH or tyres or LH or tyres or LH or LH and tyres.

Agreed, but how would it have been, listening to German commentators for the last few years?

He was on the floor at Monaco one year.......

Are there any other options for watching the grand prix other than channel ten? the muppets in that present the show are awefull and I dont like the way that scheduling is not flexible enough so you may miss the press conference etc?

tifoso wrote:Are there any other options for watching the grand prix other than channel ten? the muppets in that present the show are awefull and I dont like the way that scheduling is not flexible enough so you may miss the press conference etc?

Satellite, with your own dish.

Murray at his best:

* "Jos Verstappen is a fighter in the each of the way!"
* "And it to the Pit lane comes Schumacher!, this is it now is this a stop and go, or is he stepping out of the car. You naughty boy, your race is over. (Schumacher got black-flagged in Silverstone 1994)"
* "Stop..........stop, stop, stop, stop, go"
* "It's raining and the track is wet."
* "And what a bitter pill that must be to swallow." (An oft-repeated maxim for a driver who makes a mistake that loses him the race.)
* "And Damon Hill exits the chicane and wins the Japanese Grand Prix... and I've got to stop, because I've got a lump in my throat..." (Murray for once made speechless with emotion as Damon Hill wins the 1996 Formula 1 World Championship at Suzuka)
* "Spin! Spin! Spin!"
* "Fire! Fire! Fire!"
* "And Villeneuve! Villeneuve! Villeneuve is off!" (1997 Australian Grand Prix,. first corner incident taking out Championship favourite Jacques Villeneuve.)
* "It is so exciting you could cut the atmosphere with a cricket stump."
* "Here's the red lights... and it's GO! GO! GO!"
* "And at last he passes... No! He's off! I thought he was going to pass but he's overshot!"
* "Nigel Mansell has gone from seventh to sixth to fourth to fifth and now to third and this is lap twenty three"
* Describing his commentary style: "I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong."
* "The car upside down is a Toyota, with Will Hoy clambering out!" (Toyota's ad slogan at the time was "The car in front is a Toyota")
* "There are flames coming from the back of Prost's car as he goes into the Swimming Pool!" (The "Swimming Pool" is a chicane section on the Monaco F1 circuit.) Co-commentator James Hunt replied: "That should put them out then!"
* "You can't see a digital clock, because there isn't one."
* "And now the boot is on the other Schumacher."
* On how hot tyres become during a race: "I don't know what that is in degrees, but it's damned hot."
* "...and for great driving, watch this!" A moment later the car Walker is watching fails to turn into a corner, crashes into a tyre barrier and is out of the race.[4]
* "There is a dry line appearing in the tunnel"
* "I imagine the conditions in those cars are totally unimaginable"
* "Either that car is stationary, or it's on the move"
* "There's nothing wrong with that car except that it's on fire"
* "And this is James Thompson... and this is a spin... and this is not what's supposed to happen!"

More gems from Murray (these quotes and the ones in the previous post are all taken from the wikipedia pages):

* "Jos Verstappen is a fighter in the each of the way!"
* "And just to clarify, Häkkinen leads and has yet to stop, Coulthard leads and has yet to stop"
* "Now we go into lap 53, the penultimate last lap but one."
* "Excuse me while I interrupt myself..."
* "With half the race gone, there's half the race still to go."
* "If the gloves weren't off before—and they were—they sure are now!"
* "That's a good stop. Just under 10 seconds. Call it 9.7 in round figures."
* "Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so."
* "Now Laffite is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffite."
* "There's a difference of only one second between these two cars ...one... that's how long a second is"
* " 'If' is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, 'if' is F1 spelled backwards."
* " Watch the lights appear to countdown the start! —One light! —Two lights! —Three lights! —Four lights! —Five laps!"
* "The interesting thing about this circuit is that it has inclines; not just up, but down as well."
* "This has been a mediocre season for Nelson Piquet, as he is now known, and always has been."
* "And the track temperature has in fact risen in degrees!"
* "And here comes Damon Hill in the Williams. This car is absolutely unique—except for the one following it, which is identical."
* "Do my eyes deceive me or is Senna's Lotus sounding a bit rough?"
* "Tambay's hopes, which were nil before, are now absolutely zero."
* "Alboreto into the pits and I'm going to stop the startwatch!"
* "And it's a sad ending, albeit a happy one, at Montreal for today's Grand Prix"
* "It's the first time Schumacher's won here since 1959" (Michael Schumacher was born in 1969)
* "Schumacher in the McLaren, Häkkinen in the Ferrari." (At the time, Schumacher was a Ferrari driver and Häkkinen was a McLaren driver)
* (Approaching Bernie Ecclestone) "Bernie, it's some 17 years since you bought McLaren, you've had some good times, you've had some bad times, what do you remember best?" Bernie replies: "I don't remember buying McLaren..." Murray: "I've done it again, haven't I?"[5]
* On Gerhard Berger's Ferrari failing at Suzuka 93 "That's Ayrton Berger!"
* "Mansell knows exactly where Senna is because he can see him in his earphone."
* "Seven of the previous champions are on the starting line, and four of them are Michael Schumacher"
* "And we have had 5 races so far this year, Brazil, Argentina, Imola, Schumacher and Monaco!"
* "Anything can happen in Formula 1, and it usually does!"

Geez, I really miss him

Julian Mayo wrote:Geez, I really miss him

I doubt there will ever be another one.

Julian Mayo wrote:Geez, I really miss him

Me too...

jacfan wrote:

Julian Mayo wrote:Geez, I really miss him

I doubt there will ever be another one.

We may get another chance of listening to him come the next GP. BBC announced that Murray will be back to replace David Croft.

BTW, did y'all know that his first name is Graeme?

gkaytaz wrote:Murray at his best:

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* "There are flames coming from the back of Prost's car as he goes into the Swimming Pool!" (The "Swimming Pool" is a chicane section on the Monaco F1 circuit.) Co-commentator James Hunt replied: "That should put them out then!"

Every one of those is a real gem. Here's one of my faves:

(Approaching Bernie Ecclestone) "Bernie, it's some 17 years since you bought McLaren, you've had some good times, you've had some bad times, what do you remember best?"
Bernie replies: "I don't remember buying McLaren..."
Murray: "I've done it again, haven't I?"