Quotes About Racing

Suzuka is a nice circuit.

Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

I was very lucky in that my parents supported my racing so much - they just said 'whatever you want to achieve, if you work hard enough you can achieve it.' They never, ever let me believe that, as a female, I couldn't compete in a man's world.

My father, well he helped me with everything. From the start he was my biggest supporter and taught me a lot about his experience as a driver.

I was lucky to have friends and family who were always supportive. It didn't matter to them how I raced.

Like any parent, they've been extremely supportive of my racing throughout my childhood. I mean, my mom says that she didn't want me racing, but I think my dad and I both knew she wasn't going to win that battle. She loves it more than anybody, so it's neat to have the archives of all my old races.

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.

I didn't wait to hear any more. I hurried up the stairs to our rooms, closing the door firmly behind me. Leaning back against it, I took some deep breaths to calm myself down. My heart was racing as if I was under threat. And that was how I felt. An ominous sense of foreboding shivered through me. I wanted to grab my bags and run

A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.

I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.

Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.

All types of racing costs a lot of money no matter what you're doing.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff.

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.

Sage advice about curves is go in slow, go out fast.

I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood - and thank God this is not my job - but also the team principals should be more prominent.

To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.