Quotes About Racing

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150 miles per hour

I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

I tried to go back to sleep, but my mind was racing racing racing. Only I wasn't really thinking about anything specific. It was just this stream of words and half thoughts, like there were a thousand different channels in my brain and someone was flipping through them one after the next.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

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

After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.

The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.

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

Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.

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

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

Autumn, not spring, is swimming's preseason. It is a time to build an aerobic base, develop a routine, and set goals for the year. The few meets held between August and January are dress rehearsals to real racing, which begins in January.

Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no opportunity is lost to show off a good contusion. A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story: it's like a big flashing arrow marking you out as punchable, and before long there'll be boys queuing up to add bruises of their own, as if they'd just been waiting for somebody to show them it could be done.

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.