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"And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as
this is an all-Escort race."

"That's history. I say history because it happened in the past."

Monaco 1981: (Water is pouring onto the track in the tunnel) "...and
that could be, to put it very mildly indeed, suicidally dangerous."

"You might not think that's cricket. And it's not, it's motor racing."

"Here at Brands Hatch, Will Gollop has a clear lead over Will Gollop."

"I should imagine that the conditions in the***pit are
unimaginable!"

From the Monaco Grand Prix qualifying session in 2001: "And the
session will start in 3....8........9........0!"

"A sad ending, albeit a happy one."

"Two laps to go, then the action will begin. Unless this is the
action, which it is."

"The atmosphere is so tense you could cut it with a cricket stump."

" ... and Edson Arantes di Nascimento, commonly known to us as Pele
hands the award to Damon Hill, commonly known to us as...um...Damon...
Hill."

"Either the car is stationary or it's on the move."

 "It's not quite a curve, it's a straight actually."

"And there's the man in the green flag!"

"Rene Arnoux is coming into the pits...let's stop the star***ch."

"Even in five years' time, he (Coulthard) will still be four years
younger than Damon Hill."

"And the first five places are filled by five different cars."

"There is nothing wrong with the car except that it is on fire."

"We're watching Ralf Schumacher...Son, of course, of double world
champion Michael Schumacher."

"...and here comes Damon Hill in the Williams...this car is absolutely
unique...except for the one behind it...which is exactly the same."

"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 ?"

"Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place"

During a BTCC race at Silverstone a few years ago, Louise
Aitken-Walker and James Weaver were dicing for a midfield place, when
Wheaver, in the BMW, unfortunatly miss timed his overtaking manouver
on the exit of Woodcote corner taking the both of them out of the
race. An extremely upset Aitken-Walker stomped over to Weaver's BMW
and told him in no uncertain terms exactly what she though of his
passing skills. To which Murray commented, "Hell hath no fury like a
Woman being rammed!".

"And the track temperature has in fact risen in degrees!"

"As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto
is 5th"

"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 adrenalin in that car"

"It's raining and the track is wet"

Murrary: "What's that? There's a BODY on the track!!!" James: "Um, I
think that that is a piece of BODY-WORK, 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

"...Cruel luck for Alesi, second on the grid. That's the first time he
had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in
Canada earlier this year..."

"This is an interesting circuit because it has inclines, and not just
up, but down as well."

"Tambay's hopes , which were nil before, are absolutely zero now."

`Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best formula 1 driver that grand
prix racing has ever produced'

"Andrea de Cesaris...the man who has won more Grands Prix than anyone
else without actually winning one of them."

"Nigel Mansell - the man of the race - the man of the day - the man
from the Isle of Mann"

"Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh no he isn't! It's a
lap record."

[hysterical as ever] "And that's Alboreto OFF!" [long pause - somber
voice] "Now Michele Alboreto did not in fact qualify for the race, so
how we managed to see him go off I don't know. We'll let you know."
[Even longer pause, now laughing] "Now I'm not a technician, but it
appears a shot of Michele Alboreto going off in qualifying has crept
into this live transmission, thank you Mr. Producer, anyway that was
qualifying, this is the race..."

"And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One
racing"

Any other's worth adding?

Rafe Mc

Not everyone knows who you are talking about (Murray's last race call).
Could you explain (in less than Tom-Pabst-length) briefly.

Thanks,

Tom

Have to say I found Murrays last gig very emotional.

A wonderful man and true professional till the very end.

*

<changes name by deed poll to "Rafe">

Murray Walker, British commentator on all sorts of motorsport for over
50 years (starting at Shelsley Walsh - hooray! - in 1949). Also
broadcast to various other countries - Australia, South Africa, etc.

Renowned for two things:

1) his utter devotion to the sport, for which we should all be
grateful, and...
2) his gaffes.

Indy 2001 was his final commentary before retirement. He will be
missed.

That do you?

<cahnges name back>

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Hey, if King Alfred hadn't saved us in the 9th century we'd all be
apeaking Danish now...

Looks like its Martin Brundle and James Allen from here on in - F1
will never be the same! (At least Brundle comes up with some good
ones)

Rafe Mc

Not bad, just needed to mention that he's the legendary voice of
Formula 1. I guess that you maybe don't get the Brundle/Walker
commentary in the USA?

Rafe Mc

How about this from his final race yesterday, as we came up to the last
few laps:

"And now, if the gloves weren't off before, which they certainly were,
they are now!!"

We'll all miss him:-)

- MichaelJP

hehehe, that was a good one. Where does he pull them from?

Rafe Mc

I don't think they do. *I* do, though - 'cause I'm not American!

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          |\      _,,,---,,_        I want to die like my Grandfather,
   ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_              in his sleep.
        |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'     Not like the people in his car,
       '---''(_/--'  `-'\_)            screaming their heads off!

Rafe Mc