"Life in the Fast Lane" is a documentary about our favourite motor-racing personality: Murray Walker! I should be home by then and I will make a point of watching. He's a really great guy and I swear they just don't make 'em like this any more⦠Who would believe the voice of motorsport is 87 years old! Fanâ¦â¦TASTIC ! Let's face it, he was instrumental in galvanising many a kid's childhood interest in Formula 1, not to mention all the other stuff I so clearly remember him enthusing over, Husqvarnas and all⦠(I'll explain if anyone asks ) Here's a link to BBC's latest update: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/13631434.stm I wonder if Legard will be watchingâ¦?â¦
Because of archive rights issues this programme will not be available post-broadcast on the BBC iPlayer, so you need to watch it on Sunday, record it or download it.
Thanks Genji. Intending to watch on TV in any case, I'd not realised this or thought to research it. Cheers. "Anything can happen in Formula 1, and it usually does…"
Disappointed it won't be on iplayer, I don't have a tv license so can't watch it live! I just tried the Murray Walker quiz, some classics in there. I didn't do too well though, 664/1000
My interest in F1 was sparked by watching live motorsport, not listening to a demented lunatic with verbal diarrhorea.
Hahaha… Well, for what it's worth, so was mine Basil. But Muzzah helped make it fun for the average person who might otherwise have had less interest. His enthusiasm was (and still is) completely genuine. And yes, he made loads of mistakes but with Murray, most were happy to overlook these quirks and many actually found it fun! - He is the very antithesis of Legard…
I'm due to see Senna later so I hope I'm back in time for the Murray show. He was such a part of life when I was growing up; one of those people you feel know personally when you don't at all, almost like one of the family, as silly as it sounds. I suppose that was part of his gift Where can I find this quiz please?
I can't help you with the quiz I'm afraid Max, but I can tell you that your sense of Murray Walker as "part of the family" is exactly how he really is. He's everyone's favourite, perfect Grand-dad. And quite how the hell he is 87 now is utterly beyond me. He's got more buzz than a young Aldrin on Red Bull…
With both Senna and Murray, today is going to quite a day for misty-eyed nostalgia. Funnily enough, we always had the same feeling about Ron Dennis, even though he seems such a totally different character! This may be hard to believe I think it may just be a nostalgia thing or just that he was there being grumpy in our living room every Sunday afternoon.
You were definitley up too late Basil, all your posts are cranky! Everyone would berate Murray for making mistakes live on air, but messers Allen, Brundle, Legard & Coulthard are hardly flawless. Many a time I have been shouting at the TV trying to get them to see the flaming obvious! When you consider this, it is all the more remarkable how Murray kept doing the job for so long and right into his late seventies. The partnership of James Hunt and Murray walker is still the best there was. Murray and Brundle also seemed to work very well to, but since then the cameraderie (no that is not an Italian footballer) hasn;t been there on the same level.
Now that you've mentioned HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED my harsh views on Murray Walker have softed a bit. Good ol' Murray
Genji posted a link in post #4. My family have just been going through a lot of the old rubbish in my room, and dug up a signed picture of Murray Walker with a short note to me on the back. I was about 5 or 6 when I got it (I think I sent him some sort of fan mail), and after that he could do no wrong.
