Quotes About Racing

It's easy to be optimistic when your car is fast.

These days it is not very easy to overtake in Formula One, the cars have great aerodynamic downforce. When you are behind a car, you lose downforce.

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.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

You cannot get off the treadmill simply by running faster. All you can do by that mechanism is temporarily pass others, until they respond by running faster too, with the long-term consequence of having the whole field increase their speed just to stand still. The victor in such a race is not the runner, but the treadmill.

What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

He seemed to be a pure racing animal, which explained two of his other peculiar habits: at the start of every race, he'd let out a bloodcurdling shriek, and after he won, he'd roll in the

Ejemplo clásico:Steve Prefontaine.Pre aceleró demasiado rápido dos veces en la misma carrera en las olimpiadas de 1972;las dos veces lo alcanzaron. Llegado el último tramo, Pre no había guardado combustible y cayó hasta el cuarto puesto, lo que hizo que se quedase sin medalla. Esa derrota histórica grabó a fuego la lección: nadie pierde el puesto de perseguidor si no se ve obligado a ello. A menos que seas tonto o imprudente, o a menos que seas Gari Kasparov. En

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

Theres no keepin up with the brother man I can spell my name in burnt rubber.

I do a lot of charity rides and we always use the colour pink on the vehicles and we create these bespoke pink racing suits. One of the bikes is pink leopard print!

After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing outside my country. After consistently being at the top, I decided to move to Italian Formula Renault.

As it seems, Spa is a good venue for the Schumacher family.

In my opinion, the most stagnant thing in our sport is our schedule and our venues that we go to.

It's not a small thing, it's a pandemic, but economically we should not be in this position that we are this fragile as an industry. We don't go racing for three months and we are on the verge of collapsing, which is amazing.

Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.

I rode Sea Pigeon in all his work - that's why my arms are so long.

In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.

I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

Based on my review of the scientific literature, I suggest that you aim for a daily carbohydrate intake target that is based on your training workload as indicated by Table 6.1. Be sure to use your optimal racing weight instead of your current weight to make these calculations, as you're not trying to fuel your excess fat stores for optimal performance!

Any business you're involved with, and racing is no different, is about people. It's all about people.

If I get into a car on a circuit, I drive as fast as I can; that's it!