Quotes About Motor Racing

#1. Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it.

Carroll Smith

#2. There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first ... being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go.

Carroll Smith

#4. I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#5. Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.

Mario Andretti

#6. I have spent
or wasted
my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

Brock Yates

#7. I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.

Ayrton Senna

#8. Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing

Jody Scheckter

#9. Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

Murray Walker

#10. You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

Murray Walker

#11. I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy, and I was extremely influenced by it in books until I got there.

Billy Al Bengston

#12. Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

Peter Dunne

#13. One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Bruno Senna

#14. Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.

Colin Chapman

#15. As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

Carlos Ghosn

#16. We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.

Jackie Stewart

#17. Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.

Kimi Raikkonen

#18. I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

Emerson Fittipaldi

#19. Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

Nelson Piquet

#20. At the start of each year I sit down and look at both calendars and plan it that way. Obviously sometimes there are some overlaps but I have to be organised. At the moment motor racing is taking precedence and I have been quite lucky this year in picking and choosing.

Liz Halliday

#21. That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

Murray Walker

#22. Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

Murray Walker

#23. The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

Sebastian Vettel

#24. As you can see, visually, with your eyes.

Murray Walker

#25. Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place.

Murray Walker

#26. I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains ... otherwise they wouldn't race.

Sid Watkins

#27. I was there when I said it.

Murray Walker

#28. It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

Mario Andretti

#29. And there's the man in the green flag!

Murray Walker

#30. Look up there! That's the sky!

Murray Walker

#31. And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.

Murray Walker

#32. Alain Prost is in a commanding second position

Murray Walker

#33. If you try you might succeed. If you don't try you won't succeed. On motor bike racing it goes= if you fall off and get back up you might win. if you stay lying down you won't win. Keep trying

Warren Fox

#34. The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

#35. Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.

Murray Walker

#36. When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

Alain Prost

#37. And he's lost both right front tires.

Murray Walker

#38. What's behind you doesn't matter.

Enzo Ferrari

#39. And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

Murray Walker

#40. And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.

Murray Walker

#41. Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher.

Murray Walker

#42. Unless I am very much mistaken ... I AM very much mistaken ... !

Murray Walker

#43. And all Niki really has to do now is coast

Murray Walker

#44. Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.

Murray Walker

#45. To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.

Stirling Moss

#46. The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.

Murray Walker

#47. Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?

Murray Walker

#48. With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

Murray Walker

#49. All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.

Dax Shepard

#50. Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

Murray Walker

#51. And the first five places are filled by five different cars.

Murray Walker

#52. And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

Murray Walker

#53. Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth.

Murray Walker

#54. I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

Murray Walker

#55. Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.

Murray Walker

#56. Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#57. And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

Murray Walker

#58. Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.

Murray Walker

#59. The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.

Murray Walker

#60. And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

Murray Walker

#61. Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines.

Enzo Ferrari

#62. Schumacher has made his final stop three times.

Murray Walker

#63. As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.

Murray Walker

#64. Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

Murray Walker

#65. It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way.

Murray Walker

#66. Mansell can see him in his earphone.

Murray Walker

#67. I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem.

Murray Walker

#68. Yes! Yes! There's the attitude. Where was that girl during the race? Off getting sushi?

Doug Solter

#69. Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place.

Murray Walker