MURRAY’S TOP 10 RACES IN HIS OWN WORDS...

TWO years ago Murray Walker picked some of his favourite races since the World Championship began in 1950 at Silverstone. ‘MyTop 10 are bound to be contentious,’ he said. Here they are...

1957 GERMAN GRAND PRIX

JUAN MANUEL FANGIO started in the Nurburgring in Maserati with a light fuel load and took the lead. He later had a long pit stop and went 50 seconds down with 10 laps to go. Beating the lap record every lap, he won the race and the title. It was his last great win.

1961 MONACO

MY race of the Sixties was at Monaco in 1961 as Stirling Moss in a year-old privately owned Lotus held three works Ferraris at bay for the whole, gruelling 100-lap race.

1968 GERMANY

JACKIE Stewart was in a class of his own in his French Matra. The weather was absolutely appalling but, with a damaged wrist in a splint, Jackie won by over FOUR MINUTES.

1976 GREAT BRITAIN

THE rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda gives me my race of the Seventies. After damaging his car, the partisan crowd demanded that they let Hunt race. They did and he won, only to be disqualified with Lauda handed victory.

1979 FRANCE

JEAN-PIERRE JABOUILLE’s Renault became the first turbo car to win a grand prix. But all eyes were on a sensational battle between Gilles Villeneuve’s

Ferrari and Rene Arnoux’s Renault.

1982 MONACO

WITH just over two laps to go Alain Prost crashed out of the lead in his Renault. Riccardo Patrese now led in the Brabham, only to lose control and let Didier Pironi’s Ferrari take over. Then Pironi retired so Andrea de Cesaris’s Alfa Romeo led, only to run out of fuel and let a recovered Patrese win.

1987 GREAT BRITAIN

AFTER an unplanned, long, long pit-stop in his Williams-Honda, Nigel Mansell caught his bitter rival and teammate Nelson Piquet brilliantly to take the lead.

1993 EUROPE (DONINGTON)

IN non-stop torrential rain Ayrton Senna’s McLaren started fourth but led by the end of lap one. He won by well over a minute.

2008 BRAZIL

LEWIS HAMILTON had to finish or better to beat Felipe Massa’s Ferrari to the title. Finish fifth he did, taking the place on the last corner, on the last lap, at the last race.

2016 ABU DHABI

HE may have had to follow Lewis home, but with the championship at stake Nico Rosberg did what was required under pressure. A fabulous achievement.