Quotes About Racing

Obviously being third in the Formula 1 world championship would be crazy.

When you're talking about proper competition, I think Formula E has good competition.

Everybody who knows Formula 1 knows McLaren and knows that it is the greatest team in Formula 1.

I was driving in Formula Renault 2.0... with Daniel Ricciardo.

Of course my dad went to Formula One, so I think that my dad is the better driver of the two. But I think, for a girl, my mom was not too bad, of course.

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

Since I was a child I've been looking up to Formula One. Dreaming to be a Formula One driver.

I think I've done a fair bit of my talking on the track over the course of the years, leading up to Formula One and Formula One.

I think that's a very good point they're bringing into Formula One at the moment, to get rid of all the electronics. And I think that's what a Formula One driver needs. That's why they are a Formula One driver. They need to drive themselves.

It's boring whenever Michael's name has to be said next to mine. But I understand; there have not been too many brothers in formula one.

I am not there to finish fourth at the end of the day. I am there to win as a racer, but on the radio, it sounds I am arrogant and not listening to the team, but it is not like that.

I've always been a bit of a car freak.

I don't go to racers' funerals.

The Hardys and Chet arrived at the track in less than an hour. The area was a beehive of activity. Bright-colored stock cars and dragsters gleamed in the sun as drivers prepared their vehicles for the day's competitions.

I'm pretty excited to be racing for Williams. They're real racers.

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting? You've got to have friends out there. You can't do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.

My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.

From the Mississippi Mudflap to the Kentucky Waterfall, to the Tennessee Top Hat and the North Carolina Neckwarmer, nothing says freedom like a mullet blowing unfettered in the wind and I can't wait to restore it to its rightful place in the NASCAR garage.

The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.

Using KERS and the adjustable front wing is not particularly difficult. Once you've worked out where to use KERS to optimum effect at each track, and in which places you adjust the front wing, it happens pretty much automatically.

Just taking the front wing and saying that will make racing better, it's quite a naive and ultimately expensive approach.

The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.