Quotes from Dario Franchitti

I have my three pace cars, I have two Corvettes and a Camaro from three years, I have one 65 Sport Fury pace car from the year that Jimmy Clark won. But Porsches and Ferraris are the main thing.

I get dressed in the same way. Its not a superstition, at least I tell myself its not. Its more a way of getting that brain in gear to do that same thing. I get in the car the same way. Even the guys who are strapping me in the car get their own brains ready to go to work.

I was a big 'Pole Position' fan. I've been playing games for a long time.

I think my passion is really more towards older cars, but I think if I said Ferrari or something like that, Id say their brands are really it. Whether its cars I own, probably Ferrari F40 or Porsche Carrera GT.

You think about the dangers, you accept them and you go about your job, it is only if you start to think about it too much in the car that you'd have a problem.

Id love to work with the team in IndyCar; I just wont be behind the wheel anymore.

Dad re-mortgaged the house and family and friends pitched in to help me get through that first year and after that, that was it. I won my first championship in cars that year - 1991.

Im absolutely a car collector. Im a car fanatic.

For IndyCar racing, we really need to get it out to a wider audience so people can see just how exciting it all is. Once you've seen it and realize what it's all about, then it can be quite addicting.

Some days I end up thinking I really wish I was in the car - ike the Sonoma test, the boys tested it and I really missed driving the car there. But there are other days that I dont miss it.

Anybody that knows me knows that my job was making cars go fast, and mostly breaking them as opposed to fixing them, so it was good fun to get involved and to help the teams.

Cart is not as sanitised as formula one. You just get in the car and get on with it. And it is more fun.

Formula One is what I want to do. But I will go there only if I do a good enough job to attract an offer from a good, competitive, team.

Losing friends, it's the hardest thing that has ever happened to me and I still got back in the car after crashes. I'd get back in with broken bones and it just seemed easy, there was the drive to do it.

I think the hardest thing to reproduce, though, is the g-forces. When you turn a corner and all of a sudden you have three, four, maybe even five times the force of gravity pushing against your body, it's literally trying to push you through the side of your car. There's no way to duplicate that feeling.

I am proud of what I was able to do, the races I was able to win and the championships, but that had as much to do with the teams and the people I worked with as well. Its not something you just do on your own; it's a whole army.

When I was a kid I was only interested in going fast and I still love that feeling of speed. But when you start to go racing, it's winning that's important.

I put myself under a lot of pressure when I was racing, all the time.

I really thought my racing days were behind me but it is tough to give up something that has been a part of my life for so long and that I love so much.

I think my love of cars came from my dad, when I was much younger. Before my dad spent all his money on my racing, he had some nice cars. And my grandfathers had nice cars.

The first big drive I did I bought an Aston Martin and drove it from London to Scotland and had a fantastic drive. The last thirty miles is really twisty road that I know like the back of my hand, and it was just wonderful to get behind and have a really fun drive again.

Then realising and being told that I wasn't going to be able to race anymore, that was a whole different stage. It's that old thing of you don't know what you've got, right? Pretty quickly I realised how much I was going to miss doing what I do.

Always played all of the race games on everything from the PlayStation to the Xbox and PS2, and as advanced as PCs are now, it's amazing how realistic they can make the experience.

Ive had a wonderful time, a great career. I wouldnt call it a career; it was what I loved to do. I never called it a job; its been an absolute privilege.