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I settle for Heinz when there's no Murray option on YouTube.
I like the way he finishes sentences and then nods off for 30 seconds
Certainly makes more sense than the French or Italians
Bottom post of the previous page:
I settle for Heinz when there's no Murray option on YouTube.
Quite possibly he was writing that year's book during the silences
Nicely said .PTfan54 wrote: ↑3 years ago Man, I cannot believe that this login still works.
Anyway, Murray's passing gave me more reason for pause than most in a while. I grew up listening to him call races and I think that he must have been a very big part of what got me into racing to begin with, because I'm not sure what Formula 1 racing in 1994 had to offer a 5 year old boy if there hadn't been an incredibly excited British man screaming the action at the top of his lungs. I remember thinking after he retired from commentating full-time in 2001 that every commentator who came after him just wasn't as good, and every so often would look up some collection of "Murrayisms", which you couldn't help but read in his voice. More time passed and eventually I stopped following F1 so closely, and then gave up following motorsports entirely; other parts of life got in the way. I maintained enough of a passing knowledge to know who was winning the driver's championships, and what the latest technical controversies were, but I more or less "outgrew" motorsports; not because it is a childish thing ("cool car go fast" is neat at any age), but just because I was becoming a different person. Still, every so often, I would go back and find a Murray Walker compilation on Youtube and enjoy listening to some of his iconic calls. (Related: many times over the past few years, I have wished I could go back in time to tell my teenage self that one day Youtube will exist, and therefore he doesn't need to keep a multi-GBs large collection of motorsports crash videos.) When I found out that Murray had passed, it was like finding out that a small part of my past had died. Murray had been a touchstone that I could use to connect with some version of my former self; it hadn't occurred to me that he was still alive, but it never felt like he could really die, either. I used to think that my fondness for Murray was some form of nostalgia, but now as an adult, it's much more obvious to me that he was simply supremely excellent at what he did. His voice, his passion, his love for motorsports, the respect he had for drivers, and the love they had for him, were all timeless, and remain so. I hope he went peacefully. As he lived to 97, survived through his service in WW2, reached the pinnacle of his field, remained happily married for 66 years, and was as beloved a figure as you could find in F1, he had one of the best "good innings" you could imagine. We should all be so lucky.
Farewell, Murray.
Trying not to get upset watching it....Everso Biggyballies wrote: ↑3 years ago Sky F1 did a couple of Murray related tributes and this is one of them they have now tweeted.