Coolest racing quote?

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...brake when you see god, just make sure you don`t meet him.

not sure who/where/when

The rally driver version of the OS/US quote

"Understeer is when you see the tree, oversteer is when you hear the tree"
"Make the suspension adjustable and they will adjust it wrong ......
look what they can do to a carburetor in just a few moments of stupidity with a screwdriver."
- Colin Chapman

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Two favorites of mine...

1) The one in my sig

2) "When I raced a car last it was at a time when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. Now, it's the other way round."
- Hans Stuck

And what I personally find myself saying increasingly..

"No one knows --- in this business"
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"If you can drive you can drive. Period"

Mario Andretti on the versatility or not of drivers. Perhaps regarding a certain F1 comeback of recent.
"I spent most of my money on wine and women...I wasted the rest"

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"Not bad for a number two driver"

Mark Webber to his boss after winning the British GP 2010 following some internal team difficulties...
If you are more fortunate than others, build a larger table not a taller fence.

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xpensive wrote:"Yeah, it came out from that hole in the engine-block"

Mario Andretti, when he was asked if his Alfa Romeo retired from an "oil-leak" again.
This had me in stitches
More could have been done.
David Purley

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xpensive wrote:"If you can drive you can drive. Period"

Mario Andretti on the versatility or not of drivers. Perhaps regarding a certain F1 comeback of recent.
:lol:
"You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well." -Juan Manuel Fangio

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My favourite racing quote comes approximately 50 seconds into this interview :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPlyQ9vjQGI[/youtube]
"Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine ..."

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JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:
xpensive wrote:"Yeah, it came out from that hole in the engine-block"

Mario Andretti, when he was asked if his Alfa Romeo retired from an "oil-leak" again.
This had me in stitches
I know this from some other italian source:
ah ,it was an electrical failure.
can you be a bit more detailed?
-well, it was actually a conrod going through distributor issue ...

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khA67-r5 ... iOH3In6FLo[/youtube]

A Legendary moment by James Hunt, and Murray was such a pro!

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crbassassin wrote:Hamilton "Don’t you ****ing do that to me again,”

Dennis "Don’t ****ing talk to us like that again.”

Hamilton “Go ****ing swivel.”
Hamilton talks to the man who financed his entire career in this manner?Yet Hamilton fans say he doesn't act entitled or spoiled.

FA: I feel F1 is no more like a sport.
after he was penalized for impeding Massa from over 300 feet in front of Massa during 2006 when the FIA tried their best to give Micheal another WDC as a going away present. The only moment I ever disliked the Scuderia
“To be able to actually make something is awfully nice”
Bruce McLaren on building his first McLaren racecars, 1970

“I've got to be careful what I say, but possibly to probably Juan would have had a bigger go”
Sir Frank Williams after the 2003 Canadian GP, where Ralf hesitated to pass brother M. Schumacher

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"A great car, a fantastic car, it's just a bit on the slow side"

Damon Hill on trying to qualify his utterly hopeless Brabham-Yamaha for the 1992 British GP.
"I spent most of my money on wine and women...I wasted the rest"

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...you do this again to me, and I promise you, that they will need to cut you out of your car...

Uwe Alzen to a fellow driver after a race
"Make the suspension adjustable and they will adjust it wrong ......
look what they can do to a carburetor in just a few moments of stupidity with a screwdriver."
- Colin Chapman

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo da Vinci

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"You just ran out of skill."

Driving school instructor to me after I understeered off a corner.
Enzo Ferrari was a great man. But he was not a good man. -- Phil Hill

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"Sadly, this is also a part of racing."

Mario Andretti in the Lotus motorhome after the 1978 Monza race, not knowing that Ronnie was going to die.
"I spent most of my money on wine and women...I wasted the rest"

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gridwalker wrote:My favourite racing quote comes approximately 50 seconds into this interview :
There is another wonderful Coulthard quote from Budapest when he is being asked about the cold weather. He answers its nice to see the interviewers nipples. This has been on youtube but I can't find it now. Someone else can?