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 ...

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 ...