Quotes About Racing

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

You would not believe how loose this car is for two laps after the green. Then, just like that, it's back to how it was before. But, those first few laps, damn, it's loose! JUNIOR NO LIKEY!

It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.

My brother and I are always playing F1 on the PlayStation and now I am going to be in one of those cars on the games!

I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.

I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

In order to win, you have to be aggressive - with your car, with the racetrack, and with the competition. But you don't have to be stupid about it.

A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.

The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second

There are not many things you can do to make the car go faster at some racetracks. What you got from the shop is just how you're going to race. It's really about strategy.

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

There are four different cars filling the first four places.

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

Then you have to answer to your car owner, you have to answer to the sponsor, you have to answer to all these folks why you're not racing. But that's the only way it will ever stop.