For all the Forumla 1 race fans out there.

 

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

"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go"

"Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place"

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

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

"It's raining and the track is wet"

"So Bernie [Ecclestone], in the seventeen years since you bought McLaren, which of your many achievements do you think was the most memorable?" Bernie Answers, "Well I don't remember buying McLaren." [Bernie Ecclestone used to own the Brabham team].

"...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..."

"Ah! Now here's Senna in the pits (for the black flag). No point in saying I wish I could lip read: I can't even see his lips! There's Ron Dennis bending over at the right. This is A-! Out gets Senna! For whatever reason and I just hope we can get a message about this. I hope we can get a message. Ayrton Senna with, with rage and impotent fury etched in every line of his body, reluctantly drags himself out of the McLaren." (In reality Senna calmly stepped out of the car and walked away.)

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

"Unless I'm very much mistaken....I AM very much mistaken!"

"Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is."

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

"You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one."

"The Italian GP at Monaco..."

"Martin's got a bald spot - he won't be pleased..." (Germany, 1994, as Brundle retires, and climbs out of the car. Murray stops talking about the broken McLaren as soon as he sees Martin's head)

"So now you're looking at the battle between Frentzen and Herbert for 7th place. Heinz Harald Frentzen in the Sauber Mercedes behind Johnny Herbert, behind him Johnny Herbert in his first race in the Ligier Renault..."

"Frentzen is taking, er..., reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen."

"Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best formula 1 driver that grand prix racing has ever produced" [then again, there's probably people on the net who believe this.]

"And an enormous gap building before Mika Hakkinen goes through in third position...when I say enormous it's 1.5 seconds"

"Michael Schumacher leading Damon Hill by four tenths of a second or so, because it's moving...[cut to Hill under Schu's rear wing] AND THAT'S NOT FOUR TENTHS OF A SECOND! That's Michael Schumacher!"

From the Spanish GP 1995: "and Eddie Jordan is in fifth place"... (actually Eddie Irvine in one of his compatriot Eddie Jordan's cars).

"...and he's lost both right front tyres" (which may have been accurate back in the days of the Tyrrell P34, but it was from 1995!)

"Alesi is in second place and Hill is in second place..."

"As you can see, visually, with your eyes..."

"And we have had 5 races so far this year, Brazil, Argentina, Imola, Schumacher and Monaco! "

"And Damon Hill is coming into the pit lane, yes it's Damon Hill coming into the Williams pit, and Damon Hill in the pit, no it's Michael Schumacher! "

"...and now, just in case there is any CONFUSION this is the race order on lap 19: David Coulthard leads and has yet to stop; Hakkinen leads and has yet to stop..."

"We're now on the 73rd lap and the next one will be the 74th." [Monaco 1992]

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

"And Senna wins the 1999 Monaco Grand Prix" [from the 1990 Monaco GP]

"This race will actually develop into a Grand prix" (Hungarian GP)

"..and Damon Hill is following Damon Hill"

"Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th"

"Schumacher has made his final stop three times!"

"Nigel Mansell had a problem with the wheel-nut on his Williams, then he went on to win brilliantly for Ferrari!"

"And Damon Hill is going under the drier part of the Monaco circuit, that's of course because it's got a roof"

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

"And Olivier Panis justifiably wins such a well deserved Grand Prix" (in which Hill, Schumacker, Alesi, Berger and Villeneuve all came off and only 4 out of 20 drivers finished)

"People ask me who's going to be the next Hill, the next Schumacher, and I keep saying to watch out for Mika Salo" (Salo crashes a few laps later)

(Schumacher is coming out the pit lane ahead of Villeneuve) "And Schumacher overtakes Villeneuve. Oh, no he doesn't! Oh, yes he does!"

"Stop! Stop! Look! Look! It's a Williams, and I'm guessing that's Jacques Villeneuve, I can't tell you for sure because I can't see from here. And so Villeneuve retires .... it's Hill! Damon Hill is out of the Monza Grand Prix!"

"They're now on lap 68, which means there's one, two, three, four, five laps to go before the end of the Hungarian Grand Prix" (hey, kids, learn to count with Murray.....)

"And the brilliant Williams duo of Graham Hill and Gilles Villeneuve are turning this into a magnificent race"

"And Damon Hill is six.....1! 2! 3! 4! 5! 6! seconds ahead!", "Schumacher started 22nd- he's gone past 21! 20! 19! 18! 17!"

"And Hill congratulates Schumacher. They're not bosom buddies, but they're not far off!" (Hill was actually critising Schumacher for heavy-handed driving tactics after the 1995 Belgian GP).

"And I usually say that if anything is going to go wrong with the car, it has done by now, but I'm not going to say that about Jacques Villeneuve.... Oh, I already have." (Brazil 1997)

This referring to Rubens Barichello's pit stop time: "I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one."

"The two Britons running in second and third, Irvine and Fisichel...Herb...er...oh..."

"And remember that Jacques Villeneuve is a SICK man." Referring to Jacques' illness during the race.

"and this is Ralf Schumacher the youngest driver in F1 at only 21 years old, and of course he is the son of twice world champion Michael!"

"We're watching Ralf Schumacher... son, of course of double world champion Michael Schumacher..... er, the brother of Michael Schumacher...."

Monza 96. Remember those stupid tyre stacks on the kerbs which got scattered around the track on the first lap? Camera cuts to single tyre in the middle of the track. Murray: "And look at that tyre! Someone had better go and get that quickly. (As if on cue, marshall runs out and grabs it) "WELL DONE LAD!!!!!"

(This occurred when Eddie Irvine was give a 10 second penalty for blocking in the Spanish GP)
Murray: FERRARI OUT !!! (of the race) Thats Eddie Irvine!!
Martin: That's Eddie Irvine taking his 10 second penalty there.

Murray: And Coulthard is now on the inside, AND HE'S GOING THROUGH!!! (add appropriate excitement)
Martin: That's a replay, Murray.

"...while I tell you the retirements are Barrichello, Mika Salo, NAKANO, Damon Hill and SHINJI NAKANO. (He somehow excluded R. Schumacher and Katayama who had also retired at this stage.)

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

"Well he's world champion, and we only get one of those a year."

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

"Hello...hello...three wheels, three wheels on my wagon... but.... OH!!!!..... it's Nakano..." (Murray speaking as if it's a perfectly natural sight to see Shinji Nakano driving along with only 3 wheels)

On Ferrari pit stops: "And the Ferrari team are getting ready to bring in Schumacher or is it Irvine? Well, it could be either. I suspect that its going to be Irvine because he clearly cannot do anything about Ralf Schumacher in front of him. He might as well come in and change his tyres and wheels and hope that in effect he will have a quicker pit stop than Schumacher has when he comes in and pass him in the pits to gain a place and move up in the points. But we will see."
Martin: "Look! Its Schumacher coming in!"

"Well, now, Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve"

During a BTCC race at Silverstone a few years ago, Louise Aitken-Walker and James Weaver were dicing for a midfield place, when Weaver, 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!".

A rather frequent (but nonetheless funny every time I hear it) Walkerism came when Murray was doing one of his classic "Team Tactic Analysis" things... "If I was Michael Schumacher - and I'm not..."

"David Coulthard's engine sounds more like a Zeppelin than a Mercedes" (Japan 97)

"If that's not not an engine failure, then i'm a Chinaman" (Melbourne 2001)