MTosi

"I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse."-Juan Manuel Fangio


"I love motor racing. To me it's a sport, not a technical exercise. My ideal Formula One car would be something like a McLaren M23 with a big normally aspirated engine, 800 hp, 21 inch rear tyres. A lot of people say we should have narrower tires, but I don't agree because you need big tyres to slow you down when you spin. And you need a lot of horsepower to unstick big tyres, to make the cars slide. That would be a bloody fantastic spectacle, I can tell you. We would take corners one gear lower than we do now, and get the cars sideways. You know, people still rave about Ronnie Peterson in a Lotus 72, and I understand that. I agree with them. That's the kind of entertainment I want to give the crowds. Smoke the tyres ! Yeah !

I [care about the fans], because I used to be one of them ! I believe the crowd is really losing out at the moment, and that's bad."
-Gilles Villeneuve


"Lotta people go through life doing things badly. Racing's important to men who do it well. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting."-Steve McQueen


You overdid it ?" I asked. "Just ran out of road?" "No, no," he grinned. "I ran out of lock!" -Gilles Villeneuve


"When you see the tree your about to hit, it's called understeer. When you can only hear and feel it, it's oversteer" - Walter Rohrl


"I remember when sex was safe and motor racing was dangerous." -Jack Brabham


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Jarez Mifkin

I heard this one in a competition school a while back.

Veloce Raptor

If everything feels under control, you're not going fast enough.

924RACR

You steer the car with your feet; the steering wheel is used only to "present" the car to the corner. - Sir Stirling Moss

Veloce Raptor

Ah wanna go fast, Momma!

Veloce Raptor

I was seventh!!!

ltc

"What's behind me is not important"

......from the original Cannonball Run (where he rips the rearview mirror off the Ferrari and throws it away).

kurt M

I think that one is missing an "a" or two as in "Whatsa"

deep_uv

Go straighter!!!

924RACR

"All right. While we're still under a caution, I want you to go back out on that track and hit the pace car."
"Hit the pace car?!?"
"Hit the pace car."
"What for?"
"Because you've hit every other goddamned thing out there, I want you to be perfect!"

jrotsaert

The older I get, the faster I was....

Cory M

"I have no idols, I admire work, dedication and competence" Ayrton Senna, 1991

"You can sleep in your car, but you can't race your house..."

"Any suspension -- no matter how poorly designed -- can be made to work reasonably well if you just stop it from moving." -- Colin Chapman

"It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance". - Jackie Stewart

"faster...Faster...FASTER...Until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death"
-Hunter S. Thompson

"...when something on a Lotus broke, Chapman said make everything else lighter." Parnelli Jones

“I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me." ~ Ayrton Senna

Speed doesn’t kill, a sudden lack of it does…

What part of "Porsche-Racing" did you think was going to be cheap?

Skip Wolfe

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering, all the others being games.
- Ernest Hemingway

Veloce Raptor

Dear Lord Baby Jesus, I want to thank you for this wonderful meal, my two beautiful sons, Walker" and "Texas Ranger," and my Red-Hot Smokin' Wife, Carley .

Veloce Raptor

SHAKE AND BAKE!!!!!!!