Growing up in Oz so far away from F1, he was a human link to something that was almost unworldly. Sometimes he just seemed to open his mouth to change feet, but my brothers and I loved him. We hung on his every word. I've googled some of his famous quotes. Makes me smile.
RIP Murray.
This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before
Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.
One of his friends on the radio yesterday - “even in his quieter moments he sounded like his trousers were on fire”
I was never a big F1 fan but he made a dull sport interesting. RIP
Just read that he won a gold medal at the ISDT and got a premier award at the SSDT. I knew he had done a lot of trials riding but not realised it was to any great degree. He did a couple of TT's as well I recall (on a manx Norton) His dad raced rudges at the TT and when the factory couldn't afford to run the team he carried on as a privateer using the latest rudge bike with unofficial support. Minor trivia but quite a guy from quite a family, bike racing wise, and he made it to 98
Similar to most, he was the voice of F1 in the 80's and 90's when I watched it on TV. In Canada, we were fortunate to get the BBC feed, so I had Murray and James Hunt doing the commentary. I read Murray's autobiography a few years ago and I was surprised at his "real job" prior to getting into F1. Made me smile today, when I saw a retrospective piece that had Murray and Nigel Mansel on a game show and Murray introduced himself as a "retired advertising executive." He led a great life.