Walker reveals cancer, Horner receives OBE (Update)
'The voice of formula one', who hung up his microphone more than a decade ago, told his former employer, the BBC, that the lymphatic cancer was detected when he was hospitalized last month for a broken pelvis following a fall.
"They've caught it incredibly early. It's treatable, the doctors say my condition is mild and I'm very hopeful," the 89-year-old Briton said.
Meanwhile, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has admitted he is "honored" but "shocked" to have been selected for an OBE – order of the British empire – in the Queen's birthday honors list.
"It's all a bit unexpected, incredible really," the 39-year-old is quoted by the Express newspaper.
Briton Horner has led the Milton-Keynes based team, owned by the Austrian energy drink, to three consecutive seasons of drivers' and constructors' world championship clean sweeps.
06/17/13 Former Formula One commentator Murray Walker has been diagnosed with cancer. The 89 year old told the BBC that he had been diagnosed with a form of lymphatic system cancer, but said that the condition was treatable.
"They've caught it incredibly early. It's treatable, the doctors say my condition is mild and I'm very hopeful", Walker said.
Walker, who was diagnosed with the illness during tests after breaking his pelvis in a fall last month, will undergo chemotherapy over the next few months.