mike raymond 1000?

[mrcattyfigs]

does anybody else think it's time australian race fans honoured mike raymond for his contribution to local motor racing? personally i think it's high time the man who gave us driver knicknames like tricky dicky, gentleman jim, lightning larry perkins, rice grice or something, i don't think it was rice exactly but it was something ryhming with ice, maybe lice, did grice have an itchy beard? actually i can't think of any other driver knicknames mike coined at the moment, i spose the other ones might have gone along thelines of moffat cough it or seton beat em or skaife waif or tony boney maroni longhurst or bowe wow or ingall bingle/pringle or larkham fark em or lowndes out of bounds etcetc you get the idea. dam i miss that man. ish. was he popular with the drivers? or did they sort of just put up with him during race days an hope he didn't start talking to them too much going across the top of the mountain for the first time or something? johnson seems to have put up with his screeching sweltering 40 degree hot rod speedway circus ringmaster voice bursting into the headphones taking a second or two off his laptimes for nearly 15 years but i suppose mainly so the camera got a good shot of the xmo decals on the dashboard? the only adequate tribute i can think of to pay gratitude to the man would be to rename bathurst the mike raymond 1000. pound. but then wilco bilko would probably feel left out. anybody got any dirt on raymond to share? or pictures? or memories? or quotes from other drivers about `mike the psych'? or nicknames? i will always feel that he was the graham kennedy of motor sport commentary, i don't care what anybody says that's how i feel about him, sob. anyway....