Murray Walker - ''It wasn't work''

[RhynoCZ]

Link: https://youtu.be/9vgM1OM-X7s
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[Ed Case]

If he was commentating on a motor sport event on the TV I used to turn the volume way down if not off coz I couldn't take the constant rattle, gibberish excitement and duff information. Very much the 'resident irritant'.

[M.C]

I agree. I started watching some Formula 1 in 2002 and then every race from '03 onwards. I believe he did half the season in '02 then retired

[Pigeon]

Legend.

I've watched from about 1985 onwards.

[pepperami]

I just cant watch any motor sport if he is doing the commentating , he drives me nuts
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[.....]

Lovely bloke, the passion and knowledge he had for racing made his commentary great. It saddens me that he seems to have taken some journalists' criticism to heart for a few slips of the tongue which mainly served to endear his viewers to him.

[goto10]

I grew up watching F1 & listening to Murray Walker, I think he's great - the over-excitement & errors were part of the charm - it was a nice contrast alongside James Hunt who used to reign him in.
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[Hetzer]

Murray was the dog's.
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[Freddyfruitba...]

I didn't watch the Youtube video (so possibly he may have mentioned it himself), but having read the guy's autobiography recently, I wonder if people are aware that he used to race bikes in his youth?

Also his dad was Graham was a world-class racer (won the IoM TT)
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[Fisty]

Murray is the voice of my childhood, teens and early twenties.

Formula one changed for the worse the day he retired. The man has forgotten more than most will ever know about formula one.
There are few on this planet with the passion that he has for the sport.

"And I have to stop now, because I have a lump in my throat"
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[M.C]

[LongJohn22]

It all depends how you would have fared in the big black chair with hundreds of thousands watching, it's very easy competing on the side lines with no pressure, rather different at the sharp end.
I thought he was the absolute dog's danglies.

[M.C]

As apposed to being on TV fortnightly with millions tuning in?