The best racing quotes.....
09-03-2008, 12:20 PM
#16
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"Senna was 34, which means that, by F1 standards, he did not die young, just hard and a very long way from home. Senna transcended the tiresome debate about whether race drivers are really athletes because he was something far rarer in this world than an athlete — he was a genius.
Senna could take a 1,100-pound F1 car and transform it into a living, breathing thing; a throbbing dance partner in his dangerous pas de deux.
Niki Lauda said simply, ‘He was the best driver who ever lived.’"
"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
-Ernest Hemingway-
If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough horsepower
- Mark Donohue
I drive way too fast to worry about cholestrol.
-anonymous
"For any successful driver, it’s confidence. Self-belief. But that’s in anything in life. If you’re confident in what you’re doing and you really believe in yourself that you can pull it off, then generally you will."
-Colin McRae
And lastly, since we're approaching this year's Spa F1 GP:
"You don't necessary need lot of downforce there, just large enough "attachments"..."
-David Hobbs (on Kimi Raikkonen through Eau Rouge)-
Senna could take a 1,100-pound F1 car and transform it into a living, breathing thing; a throbbing dance partner in his dangerous pas de deux.
Niki Lauda said simply, ‘He was the best driver who ever lived.’"
"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
-Ernest Hemingway-
If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough horsepower
- Mark Donohue
I drive way too fast to worry about cholestrol.
-anonymous
"For any successful driver, it’s confidence. Self-belief. But that’s in anything in life. If you’re confident in what you’re doing and you really believe in yourself that you can pull it off, then generally you will."
-Colin McRae
And lastly, since we're approaching this year's Spa F1 GP:
"You don't necessary need lot of downforce there, just large enough "attachments"..."
-David Hobbs (on Kimi Raikkonen through Eau Rouge)-
09-03-2008, 12:34 PM
#18
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Originally Posted by NOT ERNEST HEMMINGWAY!
"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
09-03-2008, 12:37 PM
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I am your father, Luke.
09-03-2008, 12:43 PM
#20
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"When the flag drops, the bull**** stops" is usually attributed to Sir Jack Brabham. The first part of that phrase was the title of his autobiography.
"You know you're in trouble when the first person to get to you after a
wreck is carrying a beer"
- NASCAR driver, Jimmy Horton, speaking of his accident at Talladega in
1993.
"The car is such a dog we should have tied it to the fence"
- Dick Johnson, former Australian Touring Car Champion, discusses an
obviously less than brilliant vehicle....
"F1 won't change me"
- Jenson Button, just weeks before dumping his girlfriend of five years and
buying a Ferrari.
"Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral
wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avignon"
- Jean Alesi on the dreadfully inefficient Prost AP02.
"He's just a total bloody idiot. Always was, always will be"
- Derek Warwick on Rene Arnoux.
"Oh, we're just looking for the ear"
- Niki Lauda replying to somebody asking what the former world champion was doing back at the site of the 1976 accident that nearly killed him at the
Norschleife circuit.
"I am a non discriminating driver. I want to kick everybody's ***"
- Greg Ray, IRL.
"The track is my canvas. My car is my pencil"
- Graham Hill.
"Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best formula 1 driver that grand prix
racing has ever produced"
- A questionable quote from commentating legend, Murray Walker.
"Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to"
- Bernie Ecclestone.
"Clark came through at the end of the first lap of the race so far ahead
that we in the pits were convinced that the rest of the field must have been
wiped out in an accident"
- An onlooker describing Jim Clark's incredible first lap speed at the 1967
Belgian GP at Spa.
"My game is going wrong - the star is setting" - Ascari speaking to Fangio
in 1955 - just four days before his death at the wheel of a sportscar.
"Jimmy ranked with, perhaps even out-ranked, Nuvolari, Fangio and Moss and I think we all thought that he was in a way invincible. To be killed in an
accident with a Formula 2 car is almost unacceptable"
- Bruce McLaren speaking of the great late-Jim Clark.
"Drivers are just interchangeable light bulbs - you plug them in and they do
the job"
- Teddy Mayer, McLaren.
"And that is Ralf Schumacher - son of Michael"
-Who else but Murray Walker, ITV commentator?
"I think I've proved that, in equal cars, if I want someone to stay behind
me... well, I think he stays behind..."
- Gilles Villeneuve.
"Break a leg"
- Grid Girl at 1999 British GP offering some 'advice' to Michael Schumacer
pre-race. A few hours later Michael was in a hospital and his leg was in
plaster, following an early race shunt.
"Christ - I used to complain that this thing was underpowered, I must have
been mad"
- Chris Amon after driving a 1970's F1 car up the hill at Goodwood.
"Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines"
- Enzo Ferrari prior to the advent of the Daytona Cobras.
"I'm fine, but I'm going to need to change my shorts when this race is over"
- Greg Moore over the car to pit radio after a spin in the Michigan 500.
"It's been 2000 years since a Good Friday was this bad"
- Benetton tech boss, Pat Symonds speaking at the 2000 British GP, the site
of another dismal performance.
"No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end
of the straightaway in high gear"
- Too much power is never enough....Mark Donohue on the Can Am Porsche 917.
"Are you here to race or to crash?"
- Chico Landi addressing drivers safety concerns in Brazil in the 1980's.
"You might think that's not cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing"
- Yep. Murray again.
"It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you..."
- Alex Zanardi speaking to Louise Goodman on TV during the former's awful
1999 Grand Prix season.
"F--k off"
- Yvan Muller to Peter ***, during the postrace press conference at the 1999
Snetterton British Touring Car Championship night race.
"Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin, unless this is
the action, which it is"
- Murray Walker.
"The man's an animal"
- John Cleland speaking about Steve Soper, at Silverstone BTCC race, 1992.
"...if they have any more drive-throughs, they're going to have to start
selling burgers and fries in the pit lane"
- Charlie *** commentating on a drive through penatly for Laurent Aiello at
Silverstone BTCC round, 1999.
"Racing drivers have *****, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal"
- David Coulthard.
"You're a pack of ********s"
- Race winner Jim Richards responds to a booing crowd on the podium of the controversial 1992 Bathurst 1000.
"You're a pack of lovely, lovely people"
Jim Richards makes up for his 1992 speech after winning the 2002 event.
"The litte Mexican ******* tried to kill me!"
- Jo Siffert on Pedro Rodriguez.
"Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken!"
- Murray Walker.
"The passport changes but the blood doesn't"
- Italian-American, Mario Andretti on the lure to drive at Ferrari.
"I knew I'd been beaten by the best driver in the world"
- Rene Arnoux on his epic last lap battle with Gilles Villeneuve at Dijon
1979.
"Finishing second means you are the first person to lose"
- Gilles Villeneuve.
"In my day the drivers were fat and the tires were skinny"
- Unknown.
"I want to stay in F1 but things have to get better for me to have a chance.
No disrespect, but I won't go to Minardi"
- Johnny Herbert, 2000.
"We'll be looking to give McLaren and Ferrari a run for their money"
- Craig Pollock, BAR Team Principle, speaking prior to the team's 1999 race
debut. As it turned out, BAR wasn't even able to give Minardi a walk for
their money, failing to score a single point.
"There's a bit of debris there, Rouse hits it, Oh, nice header from Menu!"
- Murray Walker, Brands Hatch BTCC, 1994.
"Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal"
- Kyle Petty, Stock Car driver.
"It was a Ford, so it didn't really matter"
- Mark Skaife answering a question about a car fire in a touring car race at
Barbagallo.
"I already tried that. Something heavy metal like. And sunglasses. But it
didn't work; I went to the gas station and when I left the guy at the
counter said, 'bye Mr Schumacher".
- Michael Schumacher on trying not be recognised...
"He's broken our camera lens; that'll be six grand please Derek!"
- Murray Walker after Derek Warwick crashed into the remote TV camera during a BTCC race.
"You know you're in trouble when the first person to get to you after a
wreck is carrying a beer"
- NASCAR driver, Jimmy Horton, speaking of his accident at Talladega in
1993.
"The car is such a dog we should have tied it to the fence"
- Dick Johnson, former Australian Touring Car Champion, discusses an
obviously less than brilliant vehicle....
"F1 won't change me"
- Jenson Button, just weeks before dumping his girlfriend of five years and
buying a Ferrari.
"Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral
wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avignon"
- Jean Alesi on the dreadfully inefficient Prost AP02.
"He's just a total bloody idiot. Always was, always will be"
- Derek Warwick on Rene Arnoux.
"Oh, we're just looking for the ear"
- Niki Lauda replying to somebody asking what the former world champion was doing back at the site of the 1976 accident that nearly killed him at the
Norschleife circuit.
"I am a non discriminating driver. I want to kick everybody's ***"
- Greg Ray, IRL.
"The track is my canvas. My car is my pencil"
- Graham Hill.
"Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best formula 1 driver that grand prix
racing has ever produced"
- A questionable quote from commentating legend, Murray Walker.
"Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to"
- Bernie Ecclestone.
"Clark came through at the end of the first lap of the race so far ahead
that we in the pits were convinced that the rest of the field must have been
wiped out in an accident"
- An onlooker describing Jim Clark's incredible first lap speed at the 1967
Belgian GP at Spa.
"My game is going wrong - the star is setting" - Ascari speaking to Fangio
in 1955 - just four days before his death at the wheel of a sportscar.
"Jimmy ranked with, perhaps even out-ranked, Nuvolari, Fangio and Moss and I think we all thought that he was in a way invincible. To be killed in an
accident with a Formula 2 car is almost unacceptable"
- Bruce McLaren speaking of the great late-Jim Clark.
"Drivers are just interchangeable light bulbs - you plug them in and they do
the job"
- Teddy Mayer, McLaren.
"And that is Ralf Schumacher - son of Michael"
-Who else but Murray Walker, ITV commentator?
"I think I've proved that, in equal cars, if I want someone to stay behind
me... well, I think he stays behind..."
- Gilles Villeneuve.
"Break a leg"
- Grid Girl at 1999 British GP offering some 'advice' to Michael Schumacer
pre-race. A few hours later Michael was in a hospital and his leg was in
plaster, following an early race shunt.
"Christ - I used to complain that this thing was underpowered, I must have
been mad"
- Chris Amon after driving a 1970's F1 car up the hill at Goodwood.
"Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines"
- Enzo Ferrari prior to the advent of the Daytona Cobras.
"I'm fine, but I'm going to need to change my shorts when this race is over"
- Greg Moore over the car to pit radio after a spin in the Michigan 500.
"It's been 2000 years since a Good Friday was this bad"
- Benetton tech boss, Pat Symonds speaking at the 2000 British GP, the site
of another dismal performance.
"No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end
of the straightaway in high gear"
- Too much power is never enough....Mark Donohue on the Can Am Porsche 917.
"Are you here to race or to crash?"
- Chico Landi addressing drivers safety concerns in Brazil in the 1980's.
"You might think that's not cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing"
- Yep. Murray again.
"It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you..."
- Alex Zanardi speaking to Louise Goodman on TV during the former's awful
1999 Grand Prix season.
"F--k off"
- Yvan Muller to Peter ***, during the postrace press conference at the 1999
Snetterton British Touring Car Championship night race.
"Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin, unless this is
the action, which it is"
- Murray Walker.
"The man's an animal"
- John Cleland speaking about Steve Soper, at Silverstone BTCC race, 1992.
"...if they have any more drive-throughs, they're going to have to start
selling burgers and fries in the pit lane"
- Charlie *** commentating on a drive through penatly for Laurent Aiello at
Silverstone BTCC round, 1999.
"Racing drivers have *****, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal"
- David Coulthard.
"You're a pack of ********s"
- Race winner Jim Richards responds to a booing crowd on the podium of the controversial 1992 Bathurst 1000.
"You're a pack of lovely, lovely people"
Jim Richards makes up for his 1992 speech after winning the 2002 event.
"The litte Mexican ******* tried to kill me!"
- Jo Siffert on Pedro Rodriguez.
"Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken!"
- Murray Walker.
"The passport changes but the blood doesn't"
- Italian-American, Mario Andretti on the lure to drive at Ferrari.
"I knew I'd been beaten by the best driver in the world"
- Rene Arnoux on his epic last lap battle with Gilles Villeneuve at Dijon
1979.
"Finishing second means you are the first person to lose"
- Gilles Villeneuve.
"In my day the drivers were fat and the tires were skinny"
- Unknown.
"I want to stay in F1 but things have to get better for me to have a chance.
No disrespect, but I won't go to Minardi"
- Johnny Herbert, 2000.
"We'll be looking to give McLaren and Ferrari a run for their money"
- Craig Pollock, BAR Team Principle, speaking prior to the team's 1999 race
debut. As it turned out, BAR wasn't even able to give Minardi a walk for
their money, failing to score a single point.
"There's a bit of debris there, Rouse hits it, Oh, nice header from Menu!"
- Murray Walker, Brands Hatch BTCC, 1994.
"Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal"
- Kyle Petty, Stock Car driver.
"It was a Ford, so it didn't really matter"
- Mark Skaife answering a question about a car fire in a touring car race at
Barbagallo.
"I already tried that. Something heavy metal like. And sunglasses. But it
didn't work; I went to the gas station and when I left the guy at the
counter said, 'bye Mr Schumacher".
- Michael Schumacher on trying not be recognised...
"He's broken our camera lens; that'll be six grand please Derek!"
- Murray Walker after Derek Warwick crashed into the remote TV camera during a BTCC race.
Last edited by Ray S; 09-03-2008 at 01:03 PM.
09-03-2008, 12:48 PM
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Substitute "racers" for pilots'...."There are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots."
From an actual sign over the unrinal in the old Gasoline Alley at Indy......."There are two classes of drivers.....Those that have hit the wall, and those that are going to hit the wall".
From an actual sign over the unrinal in the old Gasoline Alley at Indy......."There are two classes of drivers.....Those that have hit the wall, and those that are going to hit the wall".
09-03-2008, 02:42 PM
#24
Race Car
remember when sex was safe and racing was dangerous.
how to make a million dollars in motorsports.... start with two million
racing is the art of turning cash into noise.
he ran out of tallent
“the winner ain't the one with the fastest car its the one who refuses to lose”
“Second Place is just the first place loser.” -Dale Earnhardt Sr
how to make a million dollars in motorsports.... start with two million
racing is the art of turning cash into noise.
he ran out of tallent
“the winner ain't the one with the fastest car its the one who refuses to lose”
“Second Place is just the first place loser.” -Dale Earnhardt Sr
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09-03-2008, 03:20 PM
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"He's using my brakes to stop his car!" (believe that was attributed to Emmo Fittipaldi, referring to Andretti's overtaking technique)
09-03-2008, 04:19 PM
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09-03-2008, 04:23 PM
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I do not remember who said this, but I first heard it quoted at a drivers' meeting. While explaining the flags, a corner worker held up the "passing flag" and said "if I wave this flag at you it means that there is a race going on and you are not a part of it - get out of the way."
09-03-2008, 04:36 PM
#29
Hurley Heywood's immortal introductory words when riding right seat: " Don't try to impress me, because you can't. And don't try to scare me, because I already am."
You can quote me on this one, "DE is to racing as paintball is to armed combat'.
You can quote me on this one, "DE is to racing as paintball is to armed combat'.
09-03-2008, 04:53 PM
#30
Drifting
If MS wants to live in anonymity he should just move to the US
