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A Murray Spoonerism


Vern Schuppan


"One Murray memory that always come to my mind was when Rene Arnoux was having that great dice at Dijon with Gilles Villeneuve and they were famously banging wheels. Murray got so excited he starting calling Arnoux, 'Arne Renoux'!"


"My friends the stars, part three! I can't remember the occasion but I can remember the people and what a line-up. Left to right - rally stars Tony Pond, Pentti Airikkala and Jimmy McRae (Colin's dad); ex-touring car racer and rally organiser Nick Brittan; a tieless JohnWatson, Nigel Mansell, an amazingly youthful-looking DerekWarwick and later winner of the Indy 500, AmericanDannySullivan."


Vicious Attack MurrayWalker


"One of the most outstanding people I met inmyF1 career and the last really of the great private owners was KenTyrrell. In the early days ofmysecond year of commentating on F1 I went out to Jarama for the Spanish GP. I was spectating and looking up a hill to a hairpin bend. As Didier Pironi, who was one of Ken's drivers, came round the hairpin and started going down the hill, his front wheel came off and came bounding down the circuit, straight at me. A front wheel and tyre, and everything that goes with it, weighs a lot, and it was carrying an enormous momentum. I watched this wheel very carefully andmovedaside. It just clippedmeonthe shoulder as it went past. "So, I thought it was pretty fantastic that I had been hit by Didier Pironi's wheel. I


strolled off into the pit lane. I said, 'Hey Ken, do you know what just happened?' I told him. 'Oh,' said Ken, 'Didn't hit you hard enough did it?'He joking!”was


MurrayWalker Scrapbook


"Every so often, I got to sit in a Formula One car to do a piece to camera. Here I am smirking


happily out of the cockpit of Nelson Piquet's World Championship-winning Brabham BMW in spite of the fact that I thought I had just lost my gold Rolex watch.”


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