Auto Racing Quotes

Someone I talked to who covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60 percent chance that Junior qualified with a car not quite up to code and people looked the other way because there’s no points involved [with the pole].

Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.

Never ever doubt in magic.

Everything we do needs to be geared toward making the sport [auto racing] more accessible to the fans - the rules of the sport, how the race plays itself out, how people qualify into the races - everything needs to be as easy to understand as possible.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is.

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it.

There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.

Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

We broke something, I think it was traction.

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one.

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.

Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

You win a race, the next race it’s a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That’s what is funny. But that’s what is interesting. And that’s what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.

To finish first, you must first finish.

To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

If you're in control, you're not going fast enough.

What's behind you doesn't matter.

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.

Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.

It's basically the same, just darker.

Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.

The client is not always right.

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.