Murray Walker Quotes

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him

Mansell can see him in his earphone.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before

And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

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

[Andrea De Cesaris is] the man who has won more Grands Prix than anybody else in the history of Grand Prix racing without actually winning one of them.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

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

Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

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

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

Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!

I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.

Look up there! That's the sky!

Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

And there's the man in the green flag!

And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

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

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.

It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way.

Let's stop the startwatch.

As you can see, visually, with your eyes.

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

I wouldn't want to stop making those gaffes, even if I could. People realise I am flesh and blood. I am not sensitive about it. It's just my enthusiasm. I want to say so much more than I have time for.

Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?

Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.

I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.