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Quotes About F1

I need to do well and show I'm a worthy driver in F1.
~ Lando Norris
As you get to F1 as a rookie, you want to prove what you can do and show your potential and I couldn't really do that for different reasons, and it was mentally really, really tough.
~ Marcus Ericsson
I'm asked to drive touring cars, I'm asked to drive IndyCar, but I think Formula One is much more hi-tech and that's where I want to be in as long as I can.
~ Jos Verstappen
I've learned what F1 is like, and it is an extremely competitive sport on and off the track.
~ Daniel Ricciardo
He does possess a penetrating sense of humour. At the end of one briefing in Mexico, when Nigel Mansell had let the world know that he was suffering seriously from uncontrollable diarrhoea and needed to interrupt practice several times on this account, Prost drily asked Roland Bruynseraede, 'If Nigel has to come in during the race will you show a brown flag?
~ Sid Watkins
I am happy to be the son of the greatest F1 racer of all time. I'm happy that he is the greatest F1 racer of all time, and I admire him for that. And even if sometimes it can be a bit difficult, it is what it is. There are good sides to it, and there are bad sides.
~ Mick Schumacher
I am very pleased to be back in F1 and to have signed to drive for Minardi.
~ Jos Verstappen
My computer displayed the surprising and at least disconcerting following message: "Error. No keyboard. Press F1 to continue!"
~ Fabrice
September 3rd, 2017, the Italian Grand Prix on the F1 Ferrari team radio, Alonso asked: "Where's Palmer?" "Retired" the team reply "Karma" said Alonso
~ Fernando Alonso
I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.
~ Sebastian Vettel
Being an F1 driver is a crazy job but not what everyone expects. My year consists of 20% driving and 80% media, marketing, and travel.
~ Daniel Ricciardo
Singapore is one of my favorite races, and the city is great.
~ Daniel Ricciardo
Sir Stirling Moss, who said that women don't have the mental aptitude to take part in F1, is from a different generation. There's no reason why women can't rise to the top in F1. If you're not good enough you don't survive.
~ Susie Wolff
In F1 everything involves money, but there are other details to work on.
~ Jos Verstappen
If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.
~ Jenson Button
When I joined F1, I was 19 years old, full of energy.
~ Fernando Alonso
When I was very little, my dad had his own go kart team as well while he was still in F1, so I always joined and riding through the paddock on my bicycle.
~ Max Verstappen
Times change, things move. F1 used to have customer cars years ago. You could buy a car from March or from Ferrari and go racing.
~ Christian Horner
Politics is something that is bigger than many people would think and you just need to learn how to deal with them and how to accept it and how to treat them. I think that from when you are 10 years old and you look at F1 and don't realise it's there and then it is.
~ Carlos Sainz Jr.
The fact that people are regarding me as the team leader doesn't change much. At the Sauber F1 team both drivers get the same equipment and treatment.
~ Nico Hulkenberg
I've learned a tremendous amount. I've gained a lot of experience competing at the highest level with the best drivers in the world in F1.
~ Lance Stroll
We have 21 races in the year and Monaco is the one that you want to win.
~ Lewis Hamilton
I think it was wrong to take the decision to slow F1 down. It was much better in my day, when it was already a lot safer than it had been in the '70s and '80s, but you could still drive crazy fast.
~ Jacques Villeneuve
Since I started driving in F1 in 2006-07, the cars have got slower and easier to drive.
~ Lewis Hamilton