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
cars filling four
Fantastic! There are four different cars filling the first four places.
half whether
He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.
major problem
I don't know what happened, but there was a major malmisorganization problem there.
expected miss
Well, I did miss it, more than I expected; and I had expected to miss it enormously.
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.
unless
Unless I'm very much mistaken... I am very much mistaken.
Are they on a one-stopper? Are they on a two? And when I say they, who do I mean? Well, I don't know. It could be anybody.
Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
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.