Murray Walker
Graeme Murray Walker, OBE (known as Murray Walker, born October 10, 1923 Hall Green, Birmingham, England ) is a British reporter and television commentator. It was through his work as a Formula 1- Rapporteur of the BBC ( later ITV) announced a broad, mainly English-speaking audience, which he finished in 2001. Since then it occurs sporadically as a commentator of classic car racing or other racing series.
Walker applies beyond the UK as a living legend and reporter enjoying themselves at former Formula 1 greats cult status. He was known primarily for its characteristic, enthusiastic manner to comment as well as expressed in the heat of the moment Comments ( known to many as " Walkerisms " or " Murrayisms " ), which were already unmasked a moment later as thoughtless and foolish. Walker looked also occupied by the supposed curse that excrete a recently designated by it as an excellent driver pilots with prospects of victory for technical reasons or driving skills to see.
Early life
Murry Walker was born in 1923 as the son of Graham Walker and Elsie Spratt. His father was a successful motorcycle racer in the 1920s and 1930s, and was in his career, among other things, once the TT winner and twice European champion.
Walker attended Highgate School in London before he was drafted during World War II by the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and military training. He took part in the battle, inter alia, in the realm of forest and left the army with the rank of captain. After his military career Walker worked in the advertising industry, inter alia, for Dunlop, Aspro, Mars, Vauxhall Motors and British Rail.
Reporter career
His debut as a sports commentator Murray Walker was in 1949 on the side of Max Robertson, a former, also very famous sports reporter for the BBC. With the Formula 1 Walker came only in the 1970s in contact when the British television not yet transferred every race live. As of the 1978 season, he commented then 23 years, almost every Grand Prix for the BBC and ITV, until he was replaced after the U.S. Grand Prix in 2001 by James Allen. It was to say goodbye to the racetrack chief of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Tony George, presents an original brick from the original Brickyard of speedways.
Walker used from the late 1980s, his well-known name for the publication of numerous Formula 1 Yearbooks, which appeared under the title " Murray Walker's Grand Prix Year" by 1997.
In November 1997, his honorary doctorate from Bournemouth University was presented, in July 2005, he also received the Dr. hc. Middlesex University in London.
Walker returned in the aftermath sporadically back as a reporter. He commented on Sky Sports in 2005 and 2006, all four races of the Grand Prix Masters series for former Formula 1 driver. In January 2006, BBC Radio 5 Live announced at also that Walker for a series of races become part of his commentary team.
In March 2006, Walker was introduced as a representative of the newly formed Honda Racing F1 Team, which had emerged in late 2005 from Formula 1 racing team British American Racing ( BAR). The commitment included that Walker cares about the welcome and entertainment of VIP guests of the team for half of the 18 Grands Prix season long.
In addition, he returned in March 2006 for a race of the Clipsal 500 V8 Supercar in Adelaide back to the microphone; in April he commented for the Australian Network Ten television stations even the Australian Grand Prix Formula 1 In March 2007, he commented again the Clipsal 500 V8 Supercar round in Adelaide and was subsequently honored with the lifetime privilege to attend the event as guest of honor. Even the Australian Grand Prix 2007, he commented again as part of the Network Ten teams. In July 2007, Walker jumped as a substitute for BBC commentator David Croft one, whose wife was expecting a child, and commented on the European Grand Prix. For Motors TV he commented in July 2008, also two runs of the historic Formula 1 during the Silverstone Classic.
Werbefigur
In the late 1990s acted Walker next to the former British Formula 1 World Champion Damon Hill as the main character of a commercial fast-food chain Pizza Hut. This amount includes the commenter urge walkers and also Hills enduring image as Second was caricatured: After the commentator had eaten his pizza before racing driver, he called as the finale of an exciting race: " And Hill finishes second ... again". Later, Walker set to music a commercial for the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.