"And now excuse me while I interrupt myself..."

"Tambay's hopes, which were previously nil, are now absolutely zero." "I've just stopped my startwatch."

"That was exactly the same place where Senna overtook Nannini that he didn't overtake Alain Prost." "A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet, as he is now known, and always has been."

"Martin Schanche's car is absolutely unique except for the one behind, which is identical."

"Two laps to go, then the action will begin. Unless this is the action, which it is." "The young Ralf Schumacher has been upstaged by the teenager Jenson Button, who is 20." "It's a sad ending albeit a happy one here at Montreal for today's grand prix."

"The first four cars are both on the same tyres." "Unless I'm very much mistaken... yes, I AM very much mistaken."

"There's nothing wrong with the car except it's on fire." "With the race half gone there is half the race still to go."

"I imagine the conditions in those cars are totally unimaginable." "The atmosphere is so tense you could cut it with a cricket stump."

"Prost can see Mansell in his earphones." "Either that car is stationary or it is on the move."

"And now the boot is on the other Schumacher." "Do my eyes deceive me or is Senna's car sounding a bit rough?"

"Damon Hill is leading. Behind him are the second and third men." "There's only a second between them. One. Thats how long a second is."

"There is no doubt in my mind that if the race had been 46 laps instead of 45 it would have been a McLaren first and second. But it didn't so it wasn't."

"And it's Mansell, Mansell, Mansell... Nigel Mansell." [it was actually Alain Prost] "He's obviously gone in for a wheel change. I say obviously because I can't see it."

"Anything happens in grand prix racing and it usually does." "Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place."

"He is shedding buckets of adrenaline in that car." Murray: "What's that? There's a body on the track!"

James Hunt: "Um, I think that that is a piece of bodywork from someone's car." Murray: "There's a fiery glow coming from the back of the Ferrari."

James Hunt: "No Murray, that's his rear safety light." "And the first five places are filled by five different cars."

"You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one." "And we've had five races so far this year - Brazil, Argentina, Imola, Schumacher and Monaco."

"And Damon Hill is coming into the pit lane, yes it's Damon Hill coming into the Williams pit and Damon Hill is in the pit, no it's Michael Schumacher."

"As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth."

"I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem." "And this is the third placed car about to lap the second placed car."

Murray: "So Bernie, in the seventeen years since you bought McLaren, which of your many achievements do you think was the most memorable?"

Bernie Ecclestone: "Well I don't remember buying McLaren." ""Andrea de Cesaris... The man who has won more grand prix than anyone else without actually winning one of them."