Acosta chases history on Sunday, but not on a Bantam
Former commentator Nick Harris details an illustrious list of names Pedro Acosta could join in Portugal this weekend with a podium
It may be a long time ago, but I remember I only had one thing on my mind on my sixteenth birthday - how can I raise the princely sum of £15 to buy my first motorbike. My friend s Dad was selling his 125cc Bantam and with some help from my parents, I was on the road.
On Sunday at Portimao in Portugal, a 16-year-old Spaniard will not be worrying about a BSA Bantam but concentrating on re-writing the 73-year-old Grand Prix history books and joining a very exclusive club. Pedro Acosta s sensational victory in the second round of the Moto3™ World Championship in Qatar opened the doors for some record-breaking at round three on Sunday. That staggering first Grand Prix win when he decimated the field after having to start from pit lane came just a week after his second-place podium finish in Qatar on hi
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Murray Walker, much-loved idiosyncratic voice of Formula 1– obituary
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Murray Walker
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Murray Walker, who has died aged 97, was for more than half a century the high-octane voice of British motor sport and a consummate exponent of – and, indeed, with a strong claim to have invented – the “pants-on-fire” school of broadcast commentary.
At full throttle at the television microphone for a Formula 1 grand prix, Walker would typically let rip with what he called his “crash, bang, wallop” approach, developed during years of commentating on low-budget motocross and rallycross competitions.
“I reacted excitedly and enthusiastically to their drama, speed and aggression,” he remembered, “and when I moved full time to the more sophisticated tarmac racing I took my whoops, expletives, shouts of amazement and malapropisms with me.”
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