Murray Walker funny quotes...

[Speed]

'Stewart have two cars in the top five - Magnussen 5th and Barichello 6th'
'Tambay's hopes , which were nil before, are absolutely zero now.'
'That's history. I say history because it happened in the past'
'The atmosphere is so tense you could cut it with a cricket stump'
'The Benetton handling superbly as ever. Williams have worked very very hard on this car at the beginning of the season.'
'The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander'
'The Italian GP at Monaco...'
'There goes Panis in the Prost. For years we knew them as Ligiers, because that is what they were called.'
'Theres a new leader. We did not see the change so we can't show it to you but here it is.'

[Wrex]

Surely in this day and age, there must be internet sites devoted just to this topic. Does anyone know where the biggest collection of Murray quotes are?

BTW, I miss him so much?

[Speed]

I found those here:
http://www.formulaone.free-online.co.uk/index.html

Great drivers' database, also...

[Wrex]

Had to have a look


'..and Damon Hill is following Damon Hill' - Murray Walker


'2 McLarens and 2 Ferraris on the front row.' - Murray Walker


'3rd, 4th and 5th in the same shot! 1st and 2nd would be if we could see them' - Murray Walker


'A sad and literally messy ending to the Canadian Grand Prix albeit, thank heavens, a happy one.' - Murray Walker


'Alesi is in second place and Hill is in second place...' - Murray Walker


'An Achilles heel for the McLaren team this year, and it's literally the heel because it's the gearbox' - Murray Walker


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


'And here is Gabriele Tarquini in 3rd place who has already driven for 31 Formula One Grand Prix teams... Ahum... i don't know if we've have that many but I'm sure that if we did so Gabriele didn't drive for all of them!' - Murray Walker


'And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.' - Murray Walker


'And in front of David Coulthard, the scarlet McLaren of four-times Monaco Grand Prix winner, Michael Schumacher.' - Murray Walker


'And now the boot is on the other Schumacher' - Murray Walker


'And Panis is almost literally laughing his head of in that car.' - Murray Walker


'And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One racing' - Murray Walker


'And the first five places are filled by five different cars.' - Murray Walker


'And the Williams pit are getting ready for Hill, the tyre coolers are coming off' - Murray Walker


'and this is the third placed car about to lap the second placed car' - Murray Walker


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


'As you can see, visually, with your eyes...' - Murray Walker


'Eddie Irvine, a magnificent number two for Ralf Schumacher' - Murray Walker


'I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are unimaginable!' - Murray Walker


'I'm going to stop the start watch' - Murray Walker


'Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th' - Murray Walker


'Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.' - Murray Walker


'Look up there! That's the sky!' - Murray Walker


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


Classic Stuff

[twig]

"...and that car in the lead is is completely unique, except for the car behind it, which is completely identical!" - Murray Walker

[StuiE]

http://www.worldmotorsport.com/murray

[laudaman]

Murray (talking to Bernie) - "So Bernie, you've owned Mclaren for 10 years. You've had some good times and you've had some bad times. What do you remmber best?"

Bernie - "I don't remember buying Mclaren."


Another quality one was when MW was commentating on a race that took place at a dirt track and he was commenting on how one of the drivers had put a whole in the windscreen so he could see where he was going. With chillingly great timing, the vehicle in question promptly hit a bank and started rolling down the track. Murray - "What am I saying! What am I saying!"

[Nicholas]

Here are a few from my collection

"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.)


[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..."

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

Commentating on Malcolm Wilson driving a Mk II Escort through a rally stage: "And for real, spectacular driving - watch this!" [Wilson rolls the car approximately 5 seconds later]

During an on-board shot in a BTCC car, the driver points at the car in front and gives him a two fingered salute to which Murray says "You're first and I'm second to you!"
Again, during and on-board shot of a BTCC race, the driver gives the car in front a one fingered salute, and Murray covers for the younger viewers with "I'm going for first!"

[Speed]

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

2) '...and Berger finishes his flying lap to begin a quick one...'

[Spinner]

"He's in front of everyone in this race except for the two in front of him ...."

".... into lap 53, the penultimate last lap but one...."

" Here's Giacomelli - driving like the veteren he is not."

" I make no apologies for their absence; I'm sorry they're not here..."

[Miss Hardt]

"When you walk round the Hockenheimring, it's quite a spooky feeling, because you've just got these enormous, dark, satanic pine trees all around you, and it's as quiet as a mouse."

How can he say this?????

[BootsOntheSide]

Or the one when Will Hoy flipped the Toyota BTCC car- "The car upside down is a Toyota". Very Brundlesque that one.

Also
"...and there's no damage to the car.....except to the car itself."
"This is an interesting circuit because it has inclines, and not just up, but down as well."
"This has been a great season for Nelson Piquet, as he is now known, and always has been"
`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 there's a dry line appearing in the tunnel" (pause while he realises what he's just said) "Obvious really as it has a roof"
"Barrichello, when asked yesterday how he thought he would go tomorrow, which is now today..."
" Mansell has made himself a comfortably cushion, well, its actually more like a lounge suite."
"If the gloves weren’t off before, and they were, they sure are now!"

[Number Juan]

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

that had me falling about!!!

2DTV here we go

[Invincible]

The unforgettable

"Mansell can see him in his earphones!!!"

"This race will actually develop into a Grand prix" (This was at the Hungarian GP btw )

[DavyboyLT1]

(at the Monaco GP, in the 80's)

Murray Walker: "...and his car is ON FIRE going into the Swimming Pool!"

James Hunt: "Well, that should put it out!"