Classic Murray Walker slip-ups:
"He's obviously gone in for a wheel change. I say obviously because I
can see it."
"With half the race gone there is half the race still to go."
"Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?"
"Anything happens in Grand Prix racing and it usually does."
"Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place."
"As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto
is fifth."
"I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be
some sort of grip problem."
"He is shedding buckets of adrenaline in that car."
"It's raining and the track is wet."
"And there's just a few more corners for Nigel Mansell to go to win
the Canadian Grand Prix... and... he's going rather slowly... HE'S
STOPPING, HE'S STOPPING!!!"
"And this is the third placed car about to lap the second placed car."
[During an F1 race, describing how the leader can see the car
following him...] "Mansell can see him in his earphone."
Murray: "So Bernie [Ecclestone], in the seventeen years since you
bought McLaren, which of you many achievements do you think
was the most memorable?"
Bernie: "Well, I don't remember buying McLaren."
[Bernie used to own Brabham.]
Murray: "What's that? There's a BODY on the track!"
James Hunt: "Um, I think that that is a piece of bodywork, from
someone's car."
Murray: "There's a FIERY GLOW coming from the back of the
Ferrari!"
James: "No Murray, that's his rear safety light."
[As an introductory piece for a rally-sprint race, Murray was put in
the Navigator's seat alongside Tony Pond in a Chevette HSR (270BHP,
RWDm and TWITCHY), added an in-car camera, and wired Murray for
sound. The result can be deduced by extrapolating his usual
excitement and enthusiasm, and adding a large pinch of raw terror.]
"AND there's a 600 foot drop on my left... AND we're doing 120MPH...
AND we're approaching a hairpin... OH MY GOD WE'RE GOING TO DIE..."
"Cruel luck for Alesi, second on the grid. That's the first time he
has started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in
Canada earlier this year..."
[Prost was being caught by Berger late in the race.] "Well let's, uh,
lugsh, luxuriate in a little hypothesis and try to work out what, if
anything, is wrong with Alain Prost. Has he got tyre problems...?
Very unlikely. Is Prost having fuel problems...? Well, who knows. I
think it's a bit unlikely. Is Prost having gearbox trouble...? I
can't tell you. And since P, uh Prost is unlikely to come on the
radio and let me know you'll have to guess along with me."
"AANNDD!! We have a, uh, I <laughing> I, uh, I'm s <still laughing>...
I have to eat humble pie again, for all the people out there. Uh, we
have a lap scoring problem and, uh, I have to rather lamely tell you
that, uh, it's still Gerhard Berger in 2nd place. It's Berger in
3rd position. In four - in, in - um, Boutsen in 3rd position..."
"And there's the man in the green flag."
"The Jordan factory is at the factory gates."
"... and there's no damage to the car... except to the car itself."
"The back of Ayrton Senna's chicken is pulling ahead."
"And I interrupt myself to bring you this..."
"This is an interesting circuit because it has inclines, and not just
up, but down as well."
"Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin, unless
this is the action, which it is."
"This has been a great season for Nelson Piquet, as he is now known,
and always has been."
"And the first five places are filled by five different cars."
"... and the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7
seconds."
"Tambay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now."
"You can't see a digital clock, because there isn't one."
"... and Blundell is doing very well in 6th position... in fact he's
lapping 2.5 seconds faster than Blundell who is in 5th position."
"The Italian GP at Monaco..."
"I'm applying intelligence and observation to the situation..."
"Schumacher's appeal for ignoring the chequered flag is next Tuesday."
"... But here is now and there is Damon Hill."
"Were watching the Finnish Driver who is 3rd, but he won't be for much
longgg... oh yes, he might be actually."
"And an enormous gap building before Mika Hakkinen goes through in 3rd
position... and when I say enormous it's 1.5 seconds."
"Schumacher is still the fastest man on the track, not only by virtue
of the fact that he leads the Australian Grand Prix, but he also
holds the fastest lap."
"And Alesi spins there... spins out of the race, surely... Yes...!
No...! Alesi manages to keep the engine, doesn't stall, but of course
he will have lost the place, I think... No! He's kept the place."
"Alesi is in 2nd place and Hill is in 2nd place..."
"As you can see, visually, with your eyes..."
"Andrea de Cesaris... the man who has won more Grand Prix than anyone
else without actually winning one of them."
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