17‘Unless I’m very
much mistaken...’
Some classic Murrayisms
from the great man himself... to his future lies in driving for the right team. Without
that support, it would be impossible for any talent to
make it. It doesn’t matter how good a driver you are.‘And the first five
Without the right team you won’t win races.’places are filled by five
In January Murray flew to Australia to commentatedifferent cars’
on the Clipsal 500 touring car race. His diary is already
full for 2009. He still enjoys his driving and owns a
sporty BMW 335d – not your average car for an‘There is nothing
octogenarian. So how does he relax? ‘That’s a trickywrong with the car
one. I don’t do too much, certainly not in the garden.
What I’m involved in is what most men want to doexcept it is on fire’
when they retire: working full time at my hobby. I go
to race meetings and do lots of after-dinner speaking.’‘And here comes
Damon Hill in the Occupational hazards
Murray has suffered with a serious hearing problemWilliams. This car is
for many years, largely because of his time in theabsolutely unique,
tank regiment and in noisy pit lanes. ‘Being an oldexcept for the one
man doesn’t help but, certainly, loss of hearing wasbehind it, which is
an occupational hazard for me.’
Murray says his proudest moment was receivingexactly the same’
an OBE from the Queen. His saddest was
commentating at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994‘You might not think
when Senna was killed. ‘But I’ve been privileged to
be paid for my hobby most of my life,’ he says. ‘Notthat’s cricket. And it’s
many people can say that.’ ■not. It’s motor racing’
Murray Walker’s Motorsport Madness, a‘And Edson Arantes do
collection of high-octane, funny clips from the
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