Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken - Murray Walker

If you watched any motor sport on British television between about 1960 and 2001, there’s a good chance you’ll have heard of Murray Walker. If you haven’t heard OF him, you’ll definitely have heard him. Like Sid Waddell with darts and Peter Alliss and golf, Murray Walker is one of those commentators who are instantly recognisable by their voices but who you may well not look twice at if you saw them in the street. As someone who came to Formula 1 racing in the early 1980s, it was twenty years before I saw a race that didn’t have Murray Walker’s over excited vocal delivery over the top of it. For many of my generation and generations past, he WAS motor ...  Read the complete review

Murray Walker is possibly the most popular and famous motor sport commentator in the world. He commenced his motor racing commentating career in 1949, and completed his last Formula 1 commentary in 2001; a time span of over fifty years. His autobiography, tells his life story, from growing up in the Midlands and Essex, his time in the British Army during World War II, and, of course, his activities in the world of motor sport. Murray wrote this book soon after his retirement, and was encouraged to do so after remembering advice he'd given to a motor racing great that if he did not write his autobiography, he'd be committing a crime against motor ...  Read the complete review

Murray Walker is an asset to our Country and a true gentleman who has written an excellent Autobiography about his ups and downs in his life and is a book well worth buying. I never knew that Murray Walker had been involved with several different activities and various jobs in his career. Murray was born in Hall Green Birmingham, which is the same area as Nigel Mansell was brought up in. Murray soon moved from Wolverhampton to Enfield in Middlesex at the age of 5 till 36 when he married Elizabeth. From 1942 to 1947 Murray joined the Army with the 30th Primary Training ...  Read the complete review

If you are interested in motor sport in any way, especially Formula One, then this book is for you. Murray Walker is the legendary UK Formula One commentator, who has been watching motor sport from well before the first ever championship took place back in 1950. He has therefore seen it all, drivers such as Juan Manuel Fangio, Alberto Ascari, Stirling Moss, Graham Hill. Drivers that we can usually only read about, he has seen them all racing with his own eyes. It is interesting to read about how he compares these drivers to recent day heroes such as Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill and of course, Michael ...  Read the complete review