Top 85 Quotes About Car Racing
#1. The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.
Denny Hamlin
#3. Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird.
Rachel Maddow
#4. I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.
Queen Latifah
#6. We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
John Shelton Reed
#7. The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
#8. Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.
Stirling Moss
#9. You don't get a mix of ovals and road/street course racing with this level of competition and speed anywhere other than Indy Car, and I think that's why it has remained a popular choice for so many young drivers.
Charlie Kimball
#10. And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.
Murray Walker
#11. A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.
Christopher Poole
#12. It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.
Mario Andretti
#13. I'm a casual F1 racing fan. I'm probably more of a stock car, NASCAR guy.
Robin Zander
#14. I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.
Kurt Busch
#15. Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.
Tom Wolfe
#16. The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.
Nick Mason
#17. If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.
Doc Bundy
#18. I take my camera pretty much everywhere and try to get the most diverse photos possible, since I get to travel to all the greatest cities in the country and see iconic architecture and things like that. I also like racing photos - like motorcycles, cars, stuff like that.
C. J. Wilson
#19. Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
Dave Barry
#20. Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.
Henry Ford
#21. The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.
Stirling Moss
#22. 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.
Greg Biffle
#23. Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that.
Jackie Stewart
#24. I lean on a lot of drivers. I have a dirt racing background so I gravitate towards asking for advice from drivers who also dirt race, people like Clint Bowyer since dirt racers seem to have a similar driving style and like the car set up similarly.
Austin Dillon
#25. A writer without reviews is like racing car without an engine - shows lots of potential but it's never going anywhere.
Lillian White
Lillian White
#26. Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.
Charlie Kimball
#28. I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.
Connie Chung
#29. In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.
Garth Stein
#30. Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?"
"Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it.
Kimberly Montague
#31. And suddenly I realized that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.
Ayrton Senna
#33. The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.
Hans Selye
#34. People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.
Michael Schumacher
#35. And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.
Murray Walker
#36. And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.
Murray Walker
#37. Since I was kid, what's drawn me to racing is the feeling inside of me, the passion I have for the sport, the feeling I have while competing and doing what I do in a car, on a bike, whatever it's been.
Jimmie Johnson
#38. I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.
Rowan Atkinson
#39. I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
Valentino Rossi
#40. But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.
Picabo Street
#41. When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Ayrton Senna
#42. I think I was always realistic - well, not the Percy thing, that was ridiculous - but I never dreamed of being a racing car driver or anything.
Alan Titchmarsh
#43. I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.
Tony Stewart
#44. You know, I was pretty comfortable where I was at. We had cars that could win races (at Roush). I know (Joe Gibbs Racing is) expecting me to perform and do my job. Before this year, I can't remember the last time I've ever been nervous at all inside of a race car.
Matt Kenseth
#45. I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.
Nigel Mansell
#46. On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.
Danica Patrick
#47. Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have.
Mario Andretti
#48. Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.
Nigel Mansell
#49. I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
Paul Newman
#50. I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
Gary Oldman
#51. Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It's like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It's like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.
Chetan Bhagat
#52. There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.
Jackie Stewart
#53. The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.
Juan Manuel Fangio
#54. And the first five places are filled by five different cars.
Murray Walker
#55. The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.
Emerson Fittipaldi
#56. Yeah, our car was really good even after the crash. I told you before the race that if we had good track position at the end I thought we could finish good. It was a really good day for our Linksys car. Just a fun day racing.
Jamie McMurray
#57. As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.
Charlie Kimball
#59. A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
Mario Andretti
#60. I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.
Murray Walker
#61. The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.
Ferdinand Porsche
#62. The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second
Murray Walker
#63. I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.
Charlie Kimball
#64. It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.
Jackie Stewart
#65. When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.
Danny Masterson
#66. Driving is something really special for me. Even women doesn't excite me as much as racing cars! I guess I'm just becoming old.
Michele Alboreto
#68. Speeding around his own private racetrack in his own Formula One racing car. Some
David Walliams
#69. The weight changes and balance that I have become accustomed to in riding have helped me to feel what the car is doing. It has become instinctive to me and I think that has something to do with why I am doing so well in my passion for racing.
Liz Halliday
#70. Why would any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It's like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It's like sitting in a racing car but not driving it. Only wimps do that.
Chetan Bhagat
#71. In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.
Tim Allen
#72. When I turned 16, I got my driver's license like the rest of my classmates, but I also got an extra present: a two-day practice session in a Formula Ford: my first open-wheel racing car and the first step on the ladder toward becoming a professional driver.
Charlie Kimball
#73. It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.
Allan McNish
#74. I love to feel a racing car around me, to feel the way it holds me.
I love to make it do all that it was built to do, and then a little bit more.
Stirling Moss
#75. Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is.
Heikki Kovalainen
#76. We are racing down Main Street. Arthur is right on the tail of a blck sedan with tinted windows that won't pull over. He slams the horn.
"Arthur," I say.
The car doesn't yield.
"Arthur," I say.
He hits the horn again, still close on the car's bummper.
"Arthur, our turn was back there.
Peter Canning
#77. Someone I talked to who covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60 percent chance that Junior qualified with a car not quite up to code and people looked the other way because there's no points involved [with the pole].
Tony Kornheiser
#78. To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.
Stirling Moss
#79. Just hang on, Malcolm, I pray as I press down on the gas and the car leaps forwards, racing into the night. I'm coming. And I've brought the cavalry with me.
Pittacus Lore
#81. Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.
Colin McRae
#82. We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.
Jackie Stewart
#83. I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.
Michael Schumacher
#84. Once you've raced, you never forget it ... and you never get over it.
Richard Childress
#85. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?
Steven Wright
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