MotoGP - Swedish 500cc GP - Anderstorp 1985.

[@ragaglia]

Thanks, his voice and style is easy recognizable but I didn't know he used to comment motorcycle races, I always heard him in his classic F1 comments along with James Hunt.

[@yds250]

Yes it is Murray Walker,His Father Graham Walker was also a Commentator,as well as a Isle of Man TT racer and winner from the 1930's.

[@Eeter26]

I’m swedish and it’s a little sad anderstorp is our largest motorsport venue. Could do well with some elevation change.

[@grantbattison7948]

Extremely dangerous tracks those days, no decent run-off areas etc

[@yds250]

You are right there. The DORNA outfit would not let the Spanish World Cup (MotoGP) race there in this day and age.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

All tracks were like this back in the 80’s. The year after Spencer damaged his knee by hitting a strawbale at Rijeka in the former Jugoslavia.

[@jojosthlm]

It is a great track. I raced on it and also crashed without major problems.

[@ragaglia]

Is that Murray Walker commenting?

[@marklegg79]

looks like a club meet at Carnaby

[@priszilla7928]

This is the last championship and race that Freddie Spencer would win

[@pabloperez4063]

Little could he imagine then

[@JukkaX]

"Spencer go home" \m/ right on!

[@shaneseccombe1837]

He did go home, with the race win and as champion!😂👍

[@AlonsoRules]

wow what a dangerous track, its like the IOM

[@Putinhuylo3]

Anthony Kernich Haha yeah right. Andetstorp was one of the safest tracks in it's time. 3 fatalities in 50 years.

[@BlackRose-vi2yg]

And people always say it was better in my day!! WTF.. the track looks like a car park

[@jamesd2128]

What a dump ! Club racers would be right at home at this track, but holding GPs here bordered on farcical.

[@Putinhuylo3]

jamesd2128 Yet the world championships returned, year after year. :) But yeah, it's an awesome clubracer track. Niki Lauda liked it too. So did Spencer, Rainey etc... But it is a bit flat, I'll give you that. No wonder, it was built on a marsh.

[@ewennicolson4342]

It wasn't so much the track, it was the facilities. Also, they couldn't make it look pretty for the tv cameras. Moto GP wasn't always a sanitised and 'produced' product. It was also miles from anywhere, so if you ran out of beer......

[@jojosthlm]

@@ewennicolson4342 Facilities was not up to standard. Lack of hot water in the showers is what I remember as the main disappointment. Can imagine that the pro riders were not used to cold showers 🤣