Murray Walker RIP

R.I.P Murray Walker . Another 'legend' departed ..

The voice of the sport. RIP 

What a lovely, lovely man. I shall never forget his commentary on  rallycross event when as he was explaining that the cars windscreens were full of holes so the driver could see where he was going and the car in shot drove off the track into an earth bank!!

Very sad to have read the news (although I have to admit both Mrs M and I immediately said that we thought he died some years ago!) He made motor sport exciting compared to the very sterile voices we hear nowadays.

Murray Walker RIP

He comes from an era of truly great Sports Commentators that have all sadly moved on such as Bill McClaren on Rugby, Richie Benaud for cricket, Peter O'Sullevan for Horse Racing, Eddie Wareing on Rugby League.

Maybe it's just my youth that has slipped away but they all seemed to have more passion and knowledge than those commentating today.

Murray Walker joins that group.

Yes, and add John Arlott and Brian Johnstone for cricket, Dan Maskell for tennis and Kenneth Wolstenholme for football to that list. And, of course, golf won't be the same without the incomparable voice of Peter Allis. 

Everybody seems to have forgotten Raymond Baxter who was the voice of sport when I was a lot younger.

Back in the mid to late 60s I used to watch Grandstand on a Saturday afternoon and they used to have a competition on occasionally where different types of vehicles would attempt different tasks, like Halflingers or 2 seater sports car or some Army vehicle like a Jeep trying to do a muddy hill climb or on a racetrack with a handicap system. I loved it and it was commentated on by Raymond Baxter. 

Anyone else remember this?

Right now I'm thinking of four-wing drive, turbo charged angels trying things like that, WN,  surly it won't be too long until we hear of such things.

R I P Murray 

Sad news indeed. A part of F1 history and he commentated on most of it.

David