Quotes About Racing

My dad kind of liked racing and motorsports, but wasn't a big fan, it wasn't like he watched every race or whatever.

In his stint with Renault, Michael Schumacher not only helped make Germany an F1 nation, he also sparked my enthusiasm and fire for racing.

I have never been ready 100% even when I have been racing on my, let's say, gold times.

When you are a kid racing karts, you want to be an F1 driver.

I am so competitive I cannot imagine myself without a racing car.

I'd love a racing career, but as I didn't start until I was 28 I missed years of experience.

I like road-course racing.

My favorite was Jeff Gordon. I just followed him growing up because I started watching racing when he came on the scene.

Charlotte is a place I always enjoy racing.

The racing team is the most important thing in the world to me. It's where all my eggs are fully in that basket. I go dance and do TV to try to make that world more important.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It's hard to see how it pulls in fans.

I have never been to Ladies' Day at the Grand National. I've never been to any day there, truth be told, and unless they introduce a Scruffy People Who Believe Horse Racing to Be Deeply Cruel Day and pay me to attend I can't see that changing.

It is not that I lost my biggest passion - it is still racing.

Racing's in my blood. My mum met my dad when she went to buy her first motorbike in his shop.

People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together.

My progression into F1 came to represent so much more than a racing driver simply trying to reach the pinnacle of the sport. It was also the hope that finally there may again be a female on the starting grid.

Because it was my decision to stop racing, I feel fine not being a driver anymore.

I'm simply trying to go as far as I can go in racing.

When I decided to stop as a racing driver in 2015, I knew I wanted to continue with the challenge of competitive motorsport.

I'm very fortunate now in that I have my first love, which is drama and acting, for a living and I'm also managing to go racing as well.

I like running my Super Late Models here and there and there are times when you go to those events and they are for $2,000 or $3,000 to win. There's no money involved in that; you're basically spending your money to go racing in those things but it's so enjoyable. For me, it's kind of like a golf game.

And Dale Jr., Dale's son, and Dale and I all raced to the checkered - were racing toward the checkered, which would have been the greatest race in NASCAR history, I'm convinced of it, had we have made it that last quarter of a mile. But instead it became the worst race in NASCAR history when Dale crashed and died on turn four.

I grew up wearing free racing T-shirts.

I looked at motor racing in America where at the Indy 500 the drivers are told 'gentlemen start your engines' and the crowd go wild because they know the race is about to start. I needed a hook and came up with 'let's get ready to rumble.'