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[ConsiderAndGo]

A classic from Murray

https://youtu.be/jr1DXYKX8ZU

[RedFlag]

The whole of 1998, Murray and Brundle couldn’t go a race without quips about Rosset and how hopeless he was.

The standout was at Monaco when he had multiple incidents in qualifying.

https://youtu.be/e-7y1_cju4c

 

Is that the one where to show their displeasure his mechanics switched the first and last letters of his name on his paddock scooter?

Edited by RedFlag, 11 May 2019 - 07:06.

[absinthedude]

There is one of the mid 80s season reviews which has the drivers take turns commentating. I can't for the life of me find a clip, I had it on VHS years ago.

Ayrton Senna was commentating.

"And here's De Cesaris (I think) having a small accident, the car slightly damaged."

What you're watching is De Cesaris spinning and rolling his car on a grass bank, and smashing it to bits..

 

 

 

 

 

Duke/FIA season review of 1985....still available on DVD I believe. 

 

https://www.dukevide...cial-Review-DVD

Edited by absinthedude, 11 May 2019 - 08:13.

[BRG]

An odd one sticks in my mind, from a Belgian GP at Zolder with ALan Jones driving for Williams.  The camera focussed on an empty track and when a car did appear, Murray Walker exclaimed 'And THERE is WIlliams in the Jones'

[Jordan44]

Martin Brundle thug life

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=LgS31SHNIXE

Edited by Jordan44, 11 May 2019 - 23:45.

[HeadFirst]

And the there is Davide Valsecchi (sorry about the spelling), possibly the most enthusiastic on-air personality at any level of racing. He makes every passing move in F2 seem like the greatest in the history of motor-sport.

[Alex79]

Someone already mentioned that outrageous 90's BTCC finale where Soper and Cleland ended up clattering off in Silverstone. The whole race is still one of my favourite BTCC moments:

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=uzxLgAwfeIQ

 

Another good one was the first appearance of Volvo in the V8 Supercars, where Scott Mclaughlin won a podium duel with Jamie Whincup. Neil Crompton hyping up Whincup until the last corner ... until the end left him rather deflated where his two collegues were shouting in glee: That was.... brilliant. He... might have given Jamie Whincup a bump then....

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=hAFRS5r2g8E

[CoolBreeze]

My least fav is that ideot croft screaming half the time from lights out.

[7MGTEsup]

I remember one from the late 90's on WSBK, the commentator was talking about tyre compounds and it went something like this.

 

"Aaron Slight had a hard on this morning and I bet he wished he had a hard on now"

 

That always stuck with me for some reason......

 

Also

 

MB "Kimi you missed the speech by Pele" 

KR "I was taking a $hit"

MB "you will be lighter for the race"

 

or words to that effect.

[Tim Murray]

One that sticks in my mind came from the excellent Toby Moody and Julian Ryder in one of their Moto GP commentaries on Eurosport. One of them noted that 125 cc rider Youichi Ui’s partner had brought his young child along to the event. The other replied ‘That’ll be the wee Ui, then.’

[balage06]

The seagull saga:

 

 

Kimi "teaches" Ms Pinkham how to drive on ice:

 

[absinthedude]

Murray Walker has related a story of commentating on motorcycle racing with his dad....Werner Haas was one of the top racers in the 50s and Walker Sr apparently was covering one half of the track, and Murray the other...."Over to you Murray"....."Here the come, Haas first"......(arse first)

 

I've never heard it, it probably wasn't recorded...but it must have been funny..

[Loosenut]

I wish I could find the footage. I remember it was the Brazilian GP 02, 03 or 04. Montoya and Schumacher enter the straight nose to tail (I can't remember which way around this time), the producer decides at that moment to show us Ralf in the pits. James Allen getting excitied "here we go, they're absolutely together now and.. (yells in frustration at the producer) WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!??"

Edited by Loosenut, 16 May 2019 - 22:58.

[PayasYouRace]

This is one of my favourites:

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=cZMkD8ai5co

 

Not James Allen screaming himself hoarse, but Ant Davidson's "I can't believe I was the one commentating for this race! Martin Brundle, what have you done?"

[Alfisti]

Glen had never won Bathurst, and never did. 

 

Back then there was genuine hate between Holden and Ford fans and I went nuts when Perkins passed Seton right in front of me. i am in the video throwing my hands int he air as it happened. 

 

Larry was punted on lap 1 by a rookie Craig Lowndes and went a lap down so it was a hell of a comeback but looking back, Glen probably deserved this one as he was just as fast as Larry over the last 20 laps or so and they were a proper mum and pop shop. But I ****ing loved Larry. 

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=kn2YQ6kYDPs

[ensign14]

Well, we've had Murray on Damon Hill's world title.

 

So let me suggest the late Sid Collins' extempore eulogy on Eddie Sachs, the Clown Prince of Racing, multiple Indycar race winner, five miles short of winning the '61 500, after the 1964 crash in which he and (unknown to Collins at the time) Dave MacDonald died.

 

You heard the announcement from the public address system. There’s not a sound. Men are taking off their hats. People are weeping. There are over 300,000 fans here not moving. Disbelieving.

 

Some men try to conquer life in a number of ways. These days of our outer space attempts some men try to conquer the universe. Race drivers are courageous men who try to conquer life and death and they calculate their risks. And with talking with them over the years I think we know their inner thoughts in regards to racing. They take it as part of living.

 

A race driver who leaves this earth mentally when he straps himself into the cockpit to try what for him is the biggest conquest he can make (are) aware of the odds and Eddie Sachs played the odds. He was serious and frivolous. He was fun. He was a wonderful gentleman. He took much needling and he gave much needling. Just as the astronauts do perhaps.

 

These boys on the racetrack ask no quarter and they give none. If they succeed, they’re a hero and if they fail, they tried. And it was Eddie’s desire and will to try with everything he had, which he always did. So the only healthy way perhaps we can approach the tragedy of the loss of a friend like Eddie Sachs is to know that he would have wanted us to face it as he did. As as it has happened, not as we wish it would have happened. It is God’s will, I’m sure, and we must accept that.

 

We are all speeding toward death at the rate of 60 minutes every hour, the only difference is, we don’t know how to speed faster, and Eddie Sachs did. So since death has a thousand or more doors, Eddie Sachs exits this earth in a race car. Knowing Eddie, I assume that’s the way he would have wanted it. Byron said, 'who the Gods love die young.

 

Eddie was 37. To his widow Nancy we extend our extreme sympathy and regret. And to his two children. This boy won the pole here in 1961 and 1962. He was a proud race driver. Well, as we do at Indianapolis and in racing, as the World Champion Jimmy Clark I’m sure would agree as he’s raced all over the world, the race continues. Unfortunately today without Eddie Sachs. And we’ll be restarting it in just a few moments.

[Collombin]

Extempore obviously has a different meaning to the one I thought it had. I'm fairly sure he would have had something appropriate prepared - just in case. The Donald seemed to think so too.

Did Sid really say 1961 and 1962 for Sachs' poles? 1962 was the year of Parnelli's 150 of course.

Edited by E.B., 18 May 2019 - 04:00.

[ensign14]

An extempore judgment is basically improvised around the result.  If it had been prepared, it's surprising Sid got a couple of things wrong.   Incidentally Menander came up with the gods/dying young bit.  The thousand doors bit is paraphrase from the Iliad.

 

Greg Fielden took most of it as his eulogy to JD McDuffie in his Forty Plus Four book.

[Bleu]

Tommi Mäkinen is being interviewed as having lost the championship battle in 1998 but then receives phone call about Sainz's retirement on the final stage. One of all-time classics in Finland.

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=c2aqaElX6ZQ

Edited by Bleu, 19 May 2019 - 11:37.