Motor Racing Quotes

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

Mansell can see him in his earphone.

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him

I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem.

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.

Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher.

Schumacher has made his final stop three times.

I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.

I was there when I said it.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.

There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first...being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go.

As you can see, visually, with your eyes.

Let's stop the startwatch.

Look up there! That's the sky!

And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.

Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place.

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.

Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

And he's lost both right front tires.

And there's the man in the green flag!

Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.

And the first five places are filled by five different cars.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing

And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.

Motor Racing Outreach is great. They provide a chapel service every Sunday for drivers, wives, crew members, and others in the NASCAR industry so that we can gather and celebrate our faith. It's important to me to have this time before the race on Sundays. They also provide other services such as at-track childcare and counseling.

Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.

I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.

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

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

The appeal of the Riverside 500 was based on that overall spectacle of witnessing a mob of brightly colored, bellowing automobiles gamboling over the countryside like a herd of runaway steers. Stock car roadracing is in fact like a mechanical stampede, and we personally think it's maybe the neatest form of motor racing known to man. It's definitely the greatest spectacle in roadracing.

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.

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.

Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it.