Murrayisms

[Mince]

Murray Walker's Murrayisms

Stating the Obvious

    * It's raining and the track is wet!
    * There are four different cars filling the first four places.
    * This is lap 54. After that it's 55, 56, 57, 58.
    * The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second which is less than one second.
    * This is an interesting circuit because it has inclines, and not just up but down as well.
    * Look up there! That's the sky!
    * The faster he goes the quicker he'll get to the pits. The slower he goes the longer it will take.
    * Twenty four points for Schumacher, twenty three points for Hill, so there's only one point between them if my mental arithmetic is correct.
    * As you can see, visually, with your eyes.
    * Either the car is stationary or it's on the move.

Make your mind up Murray!

    * There is nothing wrong with the car except that it is on fire.
    * I imagine the conditions in those cars today are totally unimaginable.
    * I make no apologies for their absence. I'm sorry they're not here.
    * It's not quite a curve. It's a straight actually!
    * He can't decide whether to have his visor half open or half closed.
    * With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.
    * He's here again for the first time.
    * And Michael Schumacher is actually in a very good position. He is in last place.
    * A sad ending, albeit a happy one, here at Montr?al for today's Grand Prix.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

The man is a living legend! Wonderful stuff.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

And then there's these....



"And now excuse me while I interrupt myself..."

"He's obviously gone in for a wheel change. I say obviously because I can't see it."

"He is shedding buckets of adrenaline in that car."

"...he can see him in his earphones..."

"...and there's no damage to the car... except to the car itself..."

"Alboreto into the pits and I'm going to stop the startwatch."

"There is a man with a great Grand Prix future behind him."

Murray: "And there are flames coming from the back of Prost's car as he enters the swimming pool."
James Hunt: "Well, that should put them out then."

Murray: "What's that? There's a body on the track!"
James Hunt: "I think that that is a piece of bodywork from someone's car."

"Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?"

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

"And he's lost both right front tires."

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

"And we have had five races so far this year, Brazil, Argentina, Imola, Schumacher and Monaco."

"And Schumacher overtakes Villeneuve... oh, no he doesn't.... oh, yes he does!"

"And this is Ralf Schumacher, the youngest driver in Formula 1 at only 21 years old, and of course he is the son of twice world champion Michael!"



Murray's Other Commentaries.                         

Murray in the Navigator's seat of a Chevette HSR during an introductory piece for a rallysprint race:
"...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!!!!!"


Murray's explanation of Rally scoring:
"Rally points scoring is 20 for the fastest, 18 for the second fastest, right down to 6 points for the slowest fastest."


                                                                       

[The Peepmaster]

I love that last one, Tarks.