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[Yambo]

Marvin Hagler

Always worth watching. Just 66 ffs.

[Noggin]

RIP MW.

Like any commentator thinking on the hoof he had his share of amusing gaffes. Copied from google...

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

There are seven previous winners of the race on the grid today, four of them are Michael Schumacher!

"He seems to be losing pace a bit....yes, I think his engine's missing!"

I bloody loved his 'gaffs' - He was so passionate that the silly things he said always added to the commentary, not reduce it

[Bigjawa]

RIP MW.

Like any commentator thinking on the hoof he had his share of amusing gaffes. Copied from google...

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

There are seven previous winners of the race on the grid today, four of them are Michael Schumacher!

"He seems to be losing pace a bit....yes, I think his engine's missing!"

I bloody loved his 'gaffs' - He was so passionate that the silly things he said always added to the commentary, not reduce it

Used to love his commentaries with James Hunt, especially when Hunt would just say what he thought and fuck the consequences.

[Yorick]

Some of the best quotes from the late, great Murray Walker


There's nothing wrong with the car except it's on fire."

"Unless I'm very much mistaken. I am very much mistaken!"

"And now excuse me while I interrupt myself!"  

"It's a sad ending, albeit a happy one, here at Montreal for today's Grand Prix."

"Two laps to go, then the action will begin. Unless this is the action, which it is."

"I'm ready to stop my startwatch."

Murray Walker: "There's a firey glow coming from the back of the Ferrari!" James Hunt: "No Murray, that's his rear safety light."





"Andrea de Cesaris, the man who has won more Grand Prix than anyone else without actually winning one."  

"Do my eyes deceive me or is Senna's car sounding a bit rough?"

"And the first five places are filled with five different cars."

"The battle is well and truly on if it wasn't on before, and it certainly was."

"The young Ralf Schumacher has been upstaged by teenager Jenson Button, who is 20."  

"The first four cars are both on the same tyres."

"I imagine that the conditions in those cars today are totally unimaginable."

"Tambay's hopes, which were absolutely nil before, are absolutely zero now."

[hawker]

Marvellous Marvin Hagler. A fabulous middleweight boxer in the 1970s. once considered the greatest boxer of all time!

Also just seen that Max Von Sydow has died. Swedish Actor starring in... The Exorcist. Flash Gordon I think?. Shutter IslandAnd others... Game of Thrones more recently...
Even guest-starred on the Simpsons Go figure??

Comes to everyone alas.!

[moth]

Marvellous Marvin Hagler. A fabulous middleweight boxer in the 1970s. once considered the greatest boxer of all time!

Also just seen that Max Von Sydow has died. Swedish Actor starring in... The Exorcist. Flash Gordon I think?. Shutter IslandAnd others... Game of Thrones more recently...
Even guest-starred on the Simpsons Go figure??

Comes to everyone alas.!

Max died last year. Has he done it again?

[Horse]

Used to love his commentaries with James Hunt, especially when Hunt would just say what he thought and fuck the consequences.

Apparently JH used to sneak out for a spliff during races.

[Bike Breaker]

Marvellous Marvin Hagler. A fabulous middleweight boxer in the 1970s. once considered the greatest boxer of all time!

Also just seen that Max Von Sydow has died. Swedish Actor starring in... The Exorcist. Flash Gordon I think?. Shutter IslandAnd others... Game of Thrones more recently...
Even guest-starred on the Simpsons Go figure??

Comes to everyone alas.!

Max died last year. Has he done it again?

There have been a lot of repeats on the telly lately.

[KungFooBob]

Sabine Schmitz (51) Queen of the Nürburgring.

[Trinity765]

Sabine Schmitz (51) Queen of the Nürburgring.

Cancer. That's very sad

[weeksy]

Sabine Schmitz (51) Queen of the Nürburgring.

Oh wow.... sheesh. Didn't know she was poorly.

[Rockburner]

Yaphet Kotto just died.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56412867

[wheelnut]

Sabine Schmitz (51) Queen of the Nürburgring.

Bugger! RIP fast transit driving lady

[Scotsrich]

Sabine Schmitz (51) Queen of the Nürburgring.

The passing of some people can touch you for no discernible reason.

This is one of those times.

RIP.

[MingtheMerciless]

RIP Queen of the Ring.

Fuck Cancer!

[Wossname]

That's really sad....she was a stunning driver, and modest with it.

[hawker]

Marvellous Marvin Hagler. A fabulous middleweight boxer in the 1970s. once considered the greatest boxer of all time!

Also just seen that Max Von Sydow has died. Swedish Actor starring in... The Exorcist. Flash Gordon I think?. Shutter IslandAnd others... Game of Thrones more recently...
Even guest-starred on the Simpsons Go figure??

Comes to everyone alas.!

Max died last year. Has he done it again?

There have been a lot of repeats on the telly lately.

Hmm, I reckon Imust have spotted it on 9th March this year as someone remembered him? That might figure why I saw it, one year too late??

[Bigjawa]

Yaphet Kotto just died.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56412867

One of those actors who was in loads of stuff but you never really noticed him.

[wheelnut]

Glynn Lunney

NASA flight controller. Along with Gene Krantz he was the flight controller responsible for bringing Apollo 13 back home.

Coincidently, I’ve listened to the second series of 13 minutes this week. Well worth a listen for anyone interested in Mercury/Apollo history.

[Phoenix]

Larry McMurtry aged 84.

In addition to being both a book lover and a antiquarian book seller he was a Pulitzer Prize Winning author and screenwriter.

Credits: The Last Picture Show, Terms Of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, and Brokeback Mountain.