After a four-year absence from F1 Murray Walker is making a comeback with the Honda Racing F1 Team.

The lure of F1 has finally proved too much for the broadcaster who once stated: "I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong." (See below for a list of famour Walker-isms)

Murray retired from the ITV-F1 commentary team in 2001. Occasional visits to the GP Paddock reminded him what he was missing and after a brief retirement he decided he couldn’t stay away any longer.

For 2006, the Honda Racing F1 Team asked 82-year-old Walker if he would join the team as an ambassador. He will provide Honda’s VIP guests with an insight into the team’s progress and entertain them with his unique brand of commentary. Walker will attend half the season’s 18 grands prix.

Alas Walker will make his Honda ‘debut’ when F1 returns to Europe in April, missing his beloved Australian F1 GP -- at least in Honda's employ.

The four-day Australian F1 Grand Prix festival starts March 30, featuring V8 Utes, Carrera Cup, Formula 3 and historic racing. The F1 cars come out for practise on Friday and qualifying on Saturday. Race day is Sunday, April 2.

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Famous Murray Walker-isms include:

• And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.
• A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.
• A sad ending, albeit a happy one.
• And Edson Arantes di Nascimento, commonly known to us as Pele, hands the award to Damon Hill, commonly known to us as Damon Hill.
• And Michael Schumacher is actually in a very good position. He is in last place. 
• And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.
• And the track temperature has in fact risen in degrees!
• And there's no damage to the car - except to the car itself.
• Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does. 
• Are they on a one-stopper? Are they on a two? And when I say they, who do I mean? Well, I don't know. It could be anybody.
• Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.
• Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.
• Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.
• Fantastic! There are four different cars filling the first four places.
• Have you ever seen so many people at a Formula One Grand Prix before? The answer's no, because there haven't been as many!
• He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed. 
• He is shedding buckets of adrenaline in that car.
• I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.
• I don't know what happened, but there was a major malmisorganization problem there. 
• I like to think I cover over as a slightly over-the-top enthusiast. It is a very exciting sport, after all.
• I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.
• I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
• I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.
• IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
• If the gloves weren't off before, and they were, they sure are now!
• In twelfth and thirteenth, the two Jaguars of Eddie Irvine. 
• It looks as though this year there will be seventeen Grands Prix for the World Championship, compared with the traditional seventeen.
• Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh no he isn't! It's a lap record.
• Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.
• Prost can see Mansell in his earphones.
• Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
• So this being Michael Schumacher's 10th race in his 151st year in F1. 
• That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
• The boot's on the other Schumacher now!
• The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.
• The two McLaren drivers are so hot they look like two fried lobsters in silver suits.
• There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.
• There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.
• This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.
• This will be Williams' first win since the last time a Williams won.
• Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.
• With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.
• You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
• You can't see Alesi's Ferrari because it isn't there.
• You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.