Quotes About Motorsport

I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!

Obviously you can make a pretty good living these days as a crew member or a crew chief or as a driver. But the technology is expensive.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

As a family, when you're dedicated to motorsport, you eat, sleep and breathe the career. With us, we are all or nothing to the point that when we do something, we do it to the best or don't do it at all.

I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I'm 6ft and I'm 70kg so I haven't much fat on me.

For some reason, the busier I am at the track, the better I tend to race. I think it's because I don't have to deal with all the distractions outside the car that can get me in trouble at times.

But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.

I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

I can't remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can't remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That's when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

Ultimately, a women's only championship is not going to get more females into motorsport as a whole.

The heart of Ferrari is winning in F1. I don't want to see our drivers in 7th and 12th place.

Love it or hate it, motorsport is not purely talent. It never has been and never will be.

I'm no different from other drivers - my talent is in my brain, not in my right foot.

From GP3 to Formula 2, it's obviously a step, but it's only a step on driving I would say. Here from Formula 2 to Formula 1, it's a huge step on driving because we have nearly 400 BHP more, with a lot more downforce. So it's a completely different car.

I think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.

I'd like to thank the management at Force India for giving me the chance to return to Formula One as a team driver.

Williams has a long history of nurturing young drivers at the start of their F1 careers.

I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn't know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.

I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end.

Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

I really want to thank Red Bull Racing and Dr. Helmut Marko for the confidence they have in me.

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 assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.