--- title: "Murray Walker Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "Murray Walker delivers lively race banter that keeps you chuckling. Read and share all 177 quotes by Murray Walker, collected on QuotesBy.net." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## Murray Walker quotes 1. > (Adelaide 1986, Mansell's tire blow-out) '\[Rosberg\] may have been prepared to move over... (tire explodes) AAAAAND LOOK AT THAT!!!! Out, and... and collossaly... that's Mansell!!! THAT IS NIGEL MANSELL!!!! And the car absolutely shattered... he's fighting for control... you can see what happened... that's Mansell out of the race.' [Permalink to quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") 2. > 'Anything can happen in Formula 1, and it usually does' [Permalink to quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/2/ "Permalink to quote 2") 3. > 'The car in front is absolutely unique - except for the one behind it, which is identical' (during a rallycross commentary from Lydden Hill. Both cars had been built by Norwegian rallycross legend Martin Schanche) [Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") 4. > 'He's obviously gone in for a wheel change. I say obviously because I can't see it' [Permalink to quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/4/ "Permalink to quote 4") 5. > 'With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go' [Permalink to quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/5/ "Permalink to quote 5") 6. > 'Jenson (Button) will win, when the car is good enough for his talent' - free practice, Silverstone 2006 [Permalink to quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 7. > 'Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?' [Permalink to quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/7/ "Permalink to quote 7") 8. > 'Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place' [Permalink to quote \#8](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/8/ "Permalink to quote 8") 9. > 'As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is 5th' [Permalink to quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/9/ "Permalink to quote 9") 10. > 'I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem' [Permalink to quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/10/ "Permalink to quote 10") 11. > 'He is shedding buckets of adrenaline in that car' [Permalink to quote \#11](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/11/ "Permalink to quote 11") 12. > 'It's raining and the track is wet' [Permalink to quote \#12](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/12/ "Permalink to quote 12") 13. > 'And there's just a few more corners for Nigel Mansell to go to win the Canadian Grand Prix...and...he's going rather slow....HE'S STOPPING HE'S STOPPING!' - on the last lap of the 1991 Canadian Grand Prix [Permalink to quote \#13](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/13/ "Permalink to quote 13") 14. > 'And this is the third placed car about to lap the second placed car...' [Permalink to quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/14/ "Permalink to quote 14") 15. > 'They say clothes maketh the man... the clothes are Niki Lauda's, but the contents are me...' [Permalink to quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/15/ "Permalink to quote 15") 16. > '...Prost can see Mansell in his earphones...' [Permalink to quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/16/ "Permalink to quote 16") 17. > 'So Bernie \[Ecclestone\], it's some seventeen years since you bought McLaren, you've had some good times, you've had some bad times. What do you remember best ?' [Permalink to quote \#17](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/17/ "Permalink to quote 17") 18. > 'What's that? There's a BODY on the track!!!' [Permalink to quote \#18](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/18/ "Permalink to quote 18") 19. > 'There's a fiery glow coming from the back of the Ferrari' [Permalink to quote \#19](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/19/ "Permalink to quote 19") 20. > Murray: And look at the flames coming from the back of Berger's McLaren. [Permalink to quote \#20](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/20/ "Permalink to quote 20") 21. > 'And there's a 600 foot drop on my left..AND we're doing 120 mph... AND we're approaching a hairpin...OH MY GOD we're going to die...' [Permalink to quote \#21](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/21/ "Permalink to quote 21") 22. > 'To Nigel Mansell: Nigel, first of all, would you slowly and carefully take your hat off? You've got an enormous bump on your head, can I show it to the viewers? Right up there? Ooh... I'm sorry...' \[Nigel leans forward to show the camera as Murray pokes it with his finger !\] Nigel starts laughing [Permalink to quote \#22](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/22/ "Permalink to quote 22") 23. > (Murray, commentating on rallycross from Lydden, describes how a BMW driver has cut holes in his windscreen so that his visibility is improved in all the muck...)Looks through a completely clean windscreen, and that's of course the big advantage of being in front. (as he is doing so, the car crashes heavily into an earth bank...) And that's the big DISADVANTAGE of getting your line wrong! [Permalink to quote \#23](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/23/ "Permalink to quote 23") 24. > From the Spanish GP 1995: 'and Eddie Jordan is in fifth place'... (actually Eddie Irvine in one of his compatriot Eddie Jordan's cars). [Permalink to quote \#24](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/24/ "Permalink to quote 24") 25. > '...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!) [Permalink to quote \#25](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/25/ "Permalink to quote 25") 26. > '...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...' [Permalink to quote \#26](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/26/ "Permalink to quote 26") 27. > James: 'And now what's wrong with Prost's car?' [Permalink to quote \#27](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/27/ "Permalink to quote 27") 28. > '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.) [Permalink to quote \#28](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/28/ "Permalink to quote 28") 29. > 'Well let's, uh, lugsh, luxurrriate in a little hypothesis and try to work out what, if anything, is wrong with Alain Prost.' (Prost was being caught by Berger late in the race.) 'Has he got tire problems? Very unlikely. Is Prost having fuel trouble? Well, who knows? I think it's a bit unlikely. Is Prost having gearbox trouble? I can't tell you. And since P, uh, Prost is unlikely to come on the radio and let me know you'll have to guess along with me.' [Permalink to quote \#29](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/29/ "Permalink to quote 29") 30. > 'ANNDD! We have a, uh, I - (laughing) - I, uh, I'm S- (still laughing). I have to eat humble pie again, for all the people out there. Uh, we have a lap scoring problem and, uh, I have to rather lamely tell you that, uh, it's still Gerhard Berger in 2nd place. It's Berger in 3rd position. In four- in- in-. Um, Boutsen in 3rd position...' [Permalink to quote \#30](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/30/ "Permalink to quote 30") 31. > 'That's 55 laps completed by both Prost and Berger and and and and and the expeeerrrienced Alain Prost is really responding.' [Permalink to quote \#31](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/31/ "Permalink to quote 31") 32. > 'And there's the man in the green flag!' [Permalink to quote \#32](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/32/ "Permalink to quote 32") 33. > 'The Jordan factory is at the factory gates' [Permalink to quote \#33](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/33/ "Permalink to quote 33") 34. > '...and there's no damage to the car.....except to the car itself.' [Permalink to quote \#34](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/34/ "Permalink to quote 34") 35. > 'The beak of Ayrton Senna's chicken is pulling ahead' [Permalink to quote \#35](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/35/ "Permalink to quote 35") 36. > 'David pulls across in front of Coulthard...' (actually Mika Hakkinen at the start of the 1998 Australian GP) [Permalink to quote \#36](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/36/ "Permalink to quote 36") 37. > 'and I interrupt myself to bring you this....' [Permalink to quote \#37](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/37/ "Permalink to quote 37") 38. > 'Unless I'm very much mistaken... and YES I AM very much mistaken!' [Permalink to quote \#38](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/38/ "Permalink to quote 38") 39. > 'This is an interesting circuit because it has inclines, and not just up, but down as well.' [Permalink to quote \#39](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/39/ "Permalink to quote 39") 40. > 'Two laps to go and then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.' [Permalink to quote \#40](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/40/ "Permalink to quote 40") 41. > 'This has been a great season for Nelson Piquet, as he is now known, and always has been' [Permalink to quote \#41](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/41/ "Permalink to quote 41") 42. > 'And the first five places are filled by five different cars.' (Teams of course) [Permalink to quote \#42](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/42/ "Permalink to quote 42") 43. > '...the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds' [Permalink to quote \#43](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/43/ "Permalink to quote 43") 44. > 'Tambay's hopes , which were nil before, are absolutely zero now.' [Permalink to quote \#44](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/44/ "Permalink to quote 44") 45. > 'You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one.' [Permalink to quote \#45](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/45/ "Permalink to quote 45") 46. > '...and Blundell is doing very well in sixth position...in fact he's lapping 2.5 seconds faster than Blundell who is in fifth position' [Permalink to quote \#46](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/46/ "Permalink to quote 46") 47. > 'We're watching the Finnish Driver who is third, but he won't for very much llllong...oh yeah, he might be actually' [Permalink to quote \#47](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/47/ "Permalink to quote 47") 48. > 'And an enormous gap building before Mika Hakkinen goes through in third position...when I say enormous it's 1.5 seconds' [Permalink to quote \#48](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/48/ "Permalink to quote 48") 49. > 'Schumacher is still the fastest man on the track, not only by virtue of the fact that he leads the Australian Grand Prix, but he also holds the fastest lap' [Permalink to quote \#49](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/49/ "Permalink to quote 49") 50. > 'Eddie Irvine with smoke pouring up from the eng...I suspect something's locked up and he's out of the race' [Permalink to quote \#50](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/50/ "Permalink to quote 50") 51. > 'And Alesi spins there...spins out of the race, surely... 'Yes!...NO! Alesi manages to keep the engine, does not stall, but of course he will have lost the place I think. No! he's kept the place' [Permalink to quote \#51](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/51/ "Permalink to quote 51") 52. > 'Yes, the beauty of this race is that it is totally unpredictable' [Permalink to quote \#52](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/52/ "Permalink to quote 52") 53. > 'Michael Schumacher leading Damon Hill by four tenths of a second or so, because it's moving...\[image cuts from Mansell to Hill under Schu's rear wing\] AND THAT'S NOT FOUR TENTHS OF A SECOND! That's Michael Schumacher!' [Permalink to quote \#53](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/53/ "Permalink to quote 53") 54. > 'The Italian GP at Monaco...' [Permalink to quote \#54](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/54/ "Permalink to quote 54") 55. > 'I'm applying intelligence and observation to the situation...' [Permalink to quote \#55](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/55/ "Permalink to quote 55") 56. > 'Schumacher's appeal for ignoring the chequered flag is next Tuesday.' [Permalink to quote \#56](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/56/ "Permalink to quote 56") 57. > '...the enthusiastic enthusiasts...' (Italy 1994) [Permalink to quote \#57](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/57/ "Permalink to quote 57") 58. > '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) [Permalink to quote \#58](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/58/ "Permalink to quote 58") 59. > '...and Andretti is going very slowly - he must have an electrical problem of some sort... '(Andretti is touring on three wheels, having hit something solid) [Permalink to quote \#59](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/59/ "Permalink to quote 59") 60. > '...but Here is Now and There is Damon Hill' [Permalink to quote \#60](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/60/ "Permalink to quote 60") 61. > '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...' [Permalink to quote \#61](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/61/ "Permalink to quote 61") 62. > 'Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula 1 driver that grand prix racing has ever produced' [Permalink to quote \#62](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/62/ "Permalink to quote 62") 63. > '...and the Peugeot cup of misery is filled past overflowing...' [Permalink to quote \#63](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/63/ "Permalink to quote 63") 64. > Murray: 'And there are flames coming from the back of Prost's car as he enters the swimming pool.' [Permalink to quote \#64](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/64/ "Permalink to quote 64") 65. > Rallycross at Lydden Hill. 'And Keith Ripp comes round Chesson's Drift, avoids the Hatter's bank...' \[upon which little yellow Mini commences its ascent\] '... BUT HE DOES NOT!!!!!' \[Mini now 30 feet in air, lands heavily and performs six rolls before stopping\] '...and BANG, BANG, OVER, OVER goes the Mini...' A quality moment. [Permalink to quote \#65](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/65/ "Permalink to quote 65") 66. > 'Alesi is in second place and Hill is in second place...' [Permalink to quote \#66](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/66/ "Permalink to quote 66") 67. > 'As you can see, visually, with your eyes...' [Permalink to quote \#67](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/67/ "Permalink to quote 67") 68. > 'Andrea de Cesaris...the man who has won more Grands Prix than anyone else without actually winning one of them.' [Permalink to quote \#68](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/68/ "Permalink to quote 68") 69. > 'And why would they want a bigger rear wing? Because a bigger rear wing means more downforce, more downforce means more grip, more grip means more transmission...' [Permalink to quote \#69](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/69/ "Permalink to quote 69") 70. > 'Well done Ukyo, well done Ukyo, you are a Japanese gentleman!' \[as Katayama got out of the way for Schumacher and Villeneuve, Jerez 1997\] [Permalink to quote \#70](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/70/ "Permalink to quote 70") 71. > 'Oh that's the Forti, and, it looks like, err, its Roberto Moreno's car , the err Brazilian .. I was going to say the elderly Brazilian , he's only 36 but he's actually the oldest driver in the race at the present moment, though he's just retired from it!' [Permalink to quote \#71](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/71/ "Permalink to quote 71") 72. > 'Hill, Hill ... Hill is in, he's beneath me now... and he's got slicks! It's slicks! He got a new set of slicks! This is strange' (as it was raining!) [Permalink to quote \#72](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/72/ "Permalink to quote 72") 73. > '....Schumacher crosses the line to start another lap, and there's nothing there!' [Permalink to quote \#73](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/73/ "Permalink to quote 73") 74. > 'The Benetton handling superbly as ever. Williams have worked very very ####### this car at the beginning of the season.' [Permalink to quote \#74](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/74/ "Permalink to quote 74") 75. > 'And we have had 5 races so far this year, Brazil, Argentina, Imola, Schumacher and Monaco!' [Permalink to quote \#75](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/75/ "Permalink to quote 75") 76. > '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!' [Permalink to quote \#76](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/76/ "Permalink to quote 76") 77. > '...and now, just in case there is any CONFUSION (operative term here) this is the race order on lap 19: David Coulthard leads and has yet to stop; Hakkinen leads and has yet to stop...' [Permalink to quote \#77](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/77/ "Permalink to quote 77") 78. > 'A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play' \[The long-standing rumour that Murray actually wrote this legendary slogan is completely false. He says himself that he 'was responsible for the administration of what is probably one of the best known slogans of them all', whatever that means...\] [Permalink to quote \#78](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/78/ "Permalink to quote 78") 79. > 'Nigel Mansell - the man of the race - the man of the day - the man from the Isle of Man' [Permalink to quote \#79](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/79/ "Permalink to quote 79") 80. > 'An Achilles heel for the McLaren team this year, and it's literally the heel because it's the gearbox' [Permalink to quote \#80](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/80/ "Permalink to quote 80") 81. > 'And now the boot is on the other Schumacher' [Permalink to quote \#81](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/81/ "Permalink to quote 81") 82. > 'The atmosphere is so tense you could cut it with a cricket stump' [Permalink to quote \#82](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/82/ "Permalink to quote 82") 83. > 'Alain Prost is in a commanding second place' [Permalink to quote \#83](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/83/ "Permalink to quote 83") 84. > 'Now the Frenchman Jacques Lafitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Lafitte.' [Permalink to quote \#84](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/84/ "Permalink to quote 84") 85. > 'I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong' \[Murray on his style of commentary\] [Permalink to quote \#85](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/85/ "Permalink to quote 85") 86. > 'I am inclined to go over the top and I know it. I am communicating an electric situation' [Permalink to quote \#86](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/86/ "Permalink to quote 86") 87. > 'I like to think I come over as a slightly over-the-top enthusiast. It is a very exciting sport after all' [Permalink to quote \#87](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/87/ "Permalink to quote 87") 88. > \[after Derek Warwick spun at Monaco ending up facing the wrong way...\] 'Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.' [Permalink to quote \#88](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/88/ "Permalink to quote 88") 89. > \[possibly Murray's most ecstatic moment when Mansell passed Senna to win in Hungary after starting well down the grid\] 'He's going for it! OH MY GOODNESS...HE'S THROOOOOOUGH!!!' [Permalink to quote \#89](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/89/ "Permalink to quote 89") 90. > 'We're now on the 73rd lap and the next one will be the 74th.' \[Monaco 1992\] [Permalink to quote \#90](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/90/ "Permalink to quote 90") 91. > 'James has just nipped out to have a look at the far side of the circuit' \[Actually James Hunt would leave the commentary box to smoke a joint!\] [Permalink to quote \#91](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/91/ "Permalink to quote 91") 92. > 'If they have any shillelaghs in Suzuka, they'll be playing them [Permalink to quote \#92](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/92/ "Permalink to quote 92") 93. > 'He's watching us from hospital with his injured knee' [Permalink to quote \#93](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/93/ "Permalink to quote 93") 94. > 'In his quieter moments he sounds like his trousers are on fire' \[Clive James on Murray Walker\] [Permalink to quote \#94](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/94/ "Permalink to quote 94") 95. > 'Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh no he isn't! It's a lap record.' [Permalink to quote \#95](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/95/ "Permalink to quote 95") 96. > 'It's not quite a curve, it's a straight actually.' [Permalink to quote \#96](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/96/ "Permalink to quote 96") 97. > 'And Senna wins the 1999 Monaco Grand Prix' \[from the 1990 Monaco GP\] [Permalink to quote \#97](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/97/ "Permalink to quote 97") 98. > \[hysterical as ever\] '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...' [Permalink to quote \#98](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/98/ "Permalink to quote 98") 99. > \[Alesi, then in a Tyrrell, was passed by Senna at Phoenix, or was he...\] 'And Senna's going through on the inside, or is he, YES!, but now Alesi has the inside, side by side, Alesi! Wow! Great Stuff!' [Permalink to quote \#99](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/99/ "Permalink to quote 99") 100. > '..and Damon Hill is following Damon Hill' [Permalink to quote \#100](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/100/ "Permalink to quote 100") 101. > 'Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th' [Permalink to quote \#101](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/101/ "Permalink to quote 101") 102. > 'Schumacher has made his final stop three times!' [Permalink to quote \#102](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/102/ "Permalink to quote 102") 103. > 'And he has been lapped 9th, 10th, 11th'' (This was in reference to Jacques Villeneuve, who was leading at the time, and there were only 11 cars running anyway!) [Permalink to quote \#103](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/103/ "Permalink to quote 103") 104. > 'Nigel Mansell had a problem with the wheel-nut on his Williams, then he went on to win brilliantly for Ferrari!' [Permalink to quote \#104](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/104/ "Permalink to quote 104") 105. > Jacques Villeneuve is just making the last turn on the last lap. 'I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that Jacques Villeneuve is going to keep the Ferrari of Michael Schumacher behind him and win his first GP...' [Permalink to quote \#105](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/105/ "Permalink to quote 105") 106. > 'And the car upside down is a Toyota' \[During a BTCC race. At the time, Toyota were using the slogan 'The car in front is a Toyota'; in this race, both works Toyotas took each other out:\] [Permalink to quote \#106](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/106/ "Permalink to quote 106") 107. > 'It has all come alive in Hungary. There is the proof! Williams! Benetton! Ferrari! The Benetton is Berger and the Ferrari is Damon Hill!' [Permalink to quote \#107](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/107/ "Permalink to quote 107") 108. > 'And Damon Hill is going under the drier part of the Monaco circuit, that's of course because it's got a roof' [Permalink to quote \#108](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/108/ "Permalink to quote 108") 109. > 'Look at Michael Schumacher. He's on the ragged edge between flying off the track and staying off it.' [Permalink to quote \#109](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/109/ "Permalink to quote 109") 110. > 'And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One racing' [Permalink to quote \#110](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/110/ "Permalink to quote 110") 111. > 'I know it's an old cliche, but you can cut the atmosphere with a cricket stump' [Permalink to quote \#111](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/111/ "Permalink to quote 111") 112. > 'And Olivier Panis justifiably wins such a well deserved Grand Prix' (in which Hill, Schumacher, Alesi, Berger and Villeneuve all came off and only 4 out of 20 drivers finished) [Permalink to quote \#112](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/112/ "Permalink to quote 112") 113. > '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) [Permalink to quote \#113](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/113/ "Permalink to quote 113") 114. > (Schumacher is coming out the pit lane ahead of Villeneuve) 'And Schumacher overtakes Villeneuve. Oh, no he doesn't! Oh, yes he does!' [Permalink to quote \#114](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/114/ "Permalink to quote 114") 115. > '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!' [Permalink to quote \#115](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/115/ "Permalink to quote 115") 116. > '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.....) [Permalink to quote \#116](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/116/ "Permalink to quote 116") 117. > 'And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures'. [Permalink to quote \#117](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/117/ "Permalink to quote 117") 118. > 'Into lap 53, the penultimate last lap but one' [Permalink to quote \#118](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/118/ "Permalink to quote 118") 119. > 'Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him.' [Permalink to quote \#119](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/119/ "Permalink to quote 119") 120. > 'I'm going to stop the startwatch...' [Permalink to quote \#120](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/120/ "Permalink to quote 120") 121. > '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). [Permalink to quote \#121](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/121/ "Permalink to quote 121") 122. > 'There goes Panis in the Prost. For years we knew them as Ligiers, because that is what they were called.' [Permalink to quote \#122](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/122/ "Permalink to quote 122") 123. > '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) [Permalink to quote \#123](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/123/ "Permalink to quote 123") 124. > 'And Michael Schumacher is in the pits!' (he was out by then,although he was probably in the garage or somthing.) [Permalink to quote \#124](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/124/ "Permalink to quote 124") 125. > 'Rally points scoring is 20 for the fastest, 18 for the second fastest, right down to 6 points for the slowest fastest.' [Permalink to quote \#125](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/125/ "Permalink to quote 125") 126. > Murray: There's a car coming into the pits now, they're so unreliable with all those electronics on board. [Permalink to quote \#126](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/126/ "Permalink to quote 126") 127. > '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!' (PF: Any rumours that Mick Schumacher already has a GP2 drive are entirely false, of course! And Ralf is Michael's younger brother, not son.) [Permalink to quote \#127](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/127/ "Permalink to quote 127") 128. > 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, a marshall runs out and grabs it) WELL DONE LAD!!!!!' [Permalink to quote \#128](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/128/ "Permalink to quote 128") 129. > 'Heinz-Harald Frentzen. The man with all the luck, and it's all bad.' (Qualifying Imola 97) [Permalink to quote \#129](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/129/ "Permalink to quote 129") 130. > Murray: Eddie Irvine is in the pit lane. [Permalink to quote \#130](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/130/ "Permalink to quote 130") 131. > Near the end. 'He (Jackie Stewart) will not produce a winner, but if he can produce second, it will be the next best thing.' [Permalink to quote \#131](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/131/ "Permalink to quote 131") 132. > '...and if you look back 4 seconds...no, 31 seconds...!' (Imola, 27th. April 1997) [Permalink to quote \#132](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/132/ "Permalink to quote 132") 133. > 'And Panis is almost literally laughing his head off in that car.' [Permalink to quote \#133](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/133/ "Permalink to quote 133") 134. > 'If I was Michael Schumacher.... which of course I am not...' [Permalink to quote \#134](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/134/ "Permalink to quote 134") 135. > 'And the track temperature has in fact risen in degrees!' [Permalink to quote \#135](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/135/ "Permalink to quote 135") 136. > 'Well he's world champion, and we only get one of those a year.' [Permalink to quote \#136](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/136/ "Permalink to quote 136") 137. > 'And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race' [Permalink to quote \#137](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/137/ "Permalink to quote 137") 138. > 'I should imagine that the conditions in the ######## are unimaginable!' [Permalink to quote \#138](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/138/ "Permalink to quote 138") 139. > 'Well, that is amazing, but I fear, absolutely... predictable!' [Permalink to quote \#139](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/139/ "Permalink to quote 139") 140. > 'And as the race starts... I regret that we must leave Brands Hatch, join us again at 4.45!' [Permalink to quote \#140](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/140/ "Permalink to quote 140") 141. > 'Three lights... four lights... five laps... (laughs) pause! Go, Go, Go!' [Permalink to quote \#141](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/141/ "Permalink to quote 141") 142. > 'As an Englishman, I have my fingers crossed for Eddie Irvine in the Jaguar.' (Irvine comes from Northern Ireland) [Permalink to quote \#142](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/142/ "Permalink to quote 142") 143. > 'Michael Schumacher is scything his way through the field... (Schumacher crashes) OOHHHHH! Schumacher out of the race!' (Canada 1999) [Permalink to quote \#143](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/143/ "Permalink to quote 143") 144. > 'And this will be Williams' first win, since last time a Williams won!' [Permalink to quote \#144](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/144/ "Permalink to quote 144") 145. > 'Jenson Button, in the top ten, is in eleventh position...' [Permalink to quote \#145](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/145/ "Permalink to quote 145") 146. > (Jarno Trulli was on the screen, but just as Murray opened his mouth, it cut to his Jordan team-mate Heinz-Harald Frentzen) [Permalink to quote \#146](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/146/ "Permalink to quote 146") 147. > 'There are actually seven previous winners of the Monaco Grand Prix, starting in tomorrow's race, and four of them are Michael Schumacher... there he is now!' [Permalink to quote \#147](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/147/ "Permalink to quote 147") 148. > 'Are they on a one-stopper, are they on a two-stopper? And when I say who... er, they... er.. who do I mean? Well, I don't know...' [Permalink to quote \#148](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/148/ "Permalink to quote 148") 149. > ''Will it rain?', said Jim Rosenthal. Well Murray Walker says 'Yes it will'... but then maybe it won't!' [Permalink to quote \#149](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/149/ "Permalink to quote 149") 150. > 'Now, if Alesi has run out of fuel - and I'm going to use an Anglo-Saxon expression here - the Benetton mechanics are looking AB-SO-LUTE-LY FUUUURRRIOUS!' [Permalink to quote \#150](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/150/ "Permalink to quote 150") 151. > 'Oh Jean. O-o-h Jean. You have got a MAJOR problem sunshine when you get back to the pits' [Permalink to quote \#151](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/151/ "Permalink to quote 151") 152. > 'Damon Hill, there he is, he in... er, leading the Belgian Grand Prix, for the first time in a Jordan! He's leading the race, for the first time, since he led the Hungarian Grand Prix (of 1997) in an Arrows... apart from his earlier lead here, of course!' (It was actually the second time Damon had taken the lead after Michael Schumacher crashed out. You could just see that coming...) [Permalink to quote \#152](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/152/ "Permalink to quote 152") 153. > 'Now, for real spectacular driving... watch this!' (Car flips over) [Permalink to quote \#153](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/153/ "Permalink to quote 153") 154. > 'He's won it! And there was no question of him winning it! Except from his competitors!' [Permalink to quote \#154](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/154/ "Permalink to quote 154") 155. > 'And he's gone off the track, into the kitty litter!' [Permalink to quote \#155](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/155/ "Permalink to quote 155") 156. > 'I think those two may have touched just then!' (this is always played when contact is made, even if you've just run into the back of someone very hard at full speed!) [Permalink to quote \#156](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/156/ "Permalink to quote 156") 157. > 'There's the flag, there's the winner, and there's the rest of them!' [Permalink to quote \#157](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/157/ "Permalink to quote 157") 158. > 'He's right up tight behind him pushing hard!' [Permalink to quote \#158](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/158/ "Permalink to quote 158") 159. > 'And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.' [Permalink to quote \#159](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/159/ "Permalink to quote 159") 160. > 'It must be Barrichelo, it must be Barrichelo .. no no, it's Schumacher!!! It's Schumacher!!! Oh my goodness!!! Michael Schumacher is out of the German Grand Prix!!!'. [Permalink to quote \#160](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/160/ "Permalink to quote 160") 161. > (Adelaide 1991, race stopped in appauling conditions) 'Oh... hello-hello? That's Riccardo Patrese, going up to tell the officials what the time of day is!' [Permalink to quote \#161](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/161/ "Permalink to quote 161") 162. > 'And Damon Hill takes the chequered flag to win the Formula 1 World Championship, and I've got to stop, because I've got a lump in my throat!' [Permalink to quote \#162](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/162/ "Permalink to quote 162") 163. > Monza 1992: 'Mansell is 7.3 seconds ahead of Nigel Mansell and Berger is in 13th place...' [Permalink to quote \#163](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/163/ "Permalink to quote 163") 164. > Monza 1988 (about the McLarens): 'Smooth... and very reliable.' (Commentator's Curse strikes half a lap afterwards, when Prost's engine develops a problem) [Permalink to quote \#164](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/164/ "Permalink to quote 164") 165. > Adelaide 1995 (as Coulthard pits): 'And into the pitlane... (Coulthard understeers into the pitlane barrier) OOAAARRRGGGHHH! My goodness! David Coulthard smashes himself out of the Australian- I have never seen that before!' [Permalink to quote \#165](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/165/ "Permalink to quote 165") 166. > Nurburgring 1995 (on Deletrazs antics): 'And what is Deletraz doing? (pause) Doesn't matter what he's doing, it's what Alesi and Schumacher are doing that matters.' [Permalink to quote \#166](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/166/ "Permalink to quote 166") 167. > The running gag of the Grand Prix series is that whereas Murray, safe in the commentary box, sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves. [Permalink to quote \#167](https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker/167/ "Permalink to quote 167") ## Also attributed 1. > Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about. 2. > He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed. 3. > There are four different cars filling the first four places. 4. > The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical. 5. > Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen. 6. > Look up there! That's the sky! 7. > Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world. 8. > I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one. 9. > I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well. 10. > Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "CollectionPage", "name": "Murray Walker Quotes", "url": "https://quotesby.net/Murray-Walker", "about": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Murray Walker" }, "hasPart": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "(Adelaide 1986, Mansell's tire blow-out) '[Rosberg] may have been prepared to move over... (tire explodes) AAAAAND LOOK AT THAT!!!! Out, and... and collossaly... that's Mansell!!! THAT IS NIGEL MANSELL!!!! 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