Coolest racing quote?

[xpensive]

"If you think it's dangerous, perhaps you're driving too fast?"

AJ Foyt, during practice for 1967 Le Mans, when some drivers were complaining over top-speeds climbing above 200 mph.

[bhall]

"I was taking a ---." - Kimi Raikkonen, when asked why he wasn't at the presentation for Schumacher at the 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix.

[ISLAMATRON]

I'm faster than you and I will prove it.

-me at the go cart track... to a 7 year old who somehow ended up upside down in the barriers

[Roland Ehnström]

A couple of film quotes I love:

"He didn't slam you, he didn't bump you, he didn't nudge you... he RUBBED you. And rubbin', son, is racin'." - Harry Hogge, Days of Thunder

"When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after... is just waiting." - Michael Delaney, Le Mans

"There is no terrible way to win. There is only winning." - Jean-Pierre Sarti, Grand Prix

[Ian P.]

"Lots of people want to Be A Racer....
But not every one, wants to Race."

Kevin Cameron I if I recall correctly.

[MattF1]

"I was taking a ---." - Kimi Raikkonen, when asked why he wasn't at the presentation for Schumacher at the 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix.

yeah, broadcast live on TV in the UK.

[onon]

"Racing is in my blood" - Ayrton Senna


"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit and you go for this limit and you touch this limit and you think, ok, this is the limit. As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you realise that you can suddenly go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and your experience as well, you can fly very high." - Ayrton Senna

Kimi's having a --- video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HHUkHbgAtM
he really doesnt care about schumi retiring and he is taking his place in 2007.

[donskar]

"You didn't run out of road, you ran out of skill." -- An instructor, name forgotten, to me.

"Doors are for loos." -- Keke Rosberg, on being offered a ride at the LeMans 24 Hours

And who remembers Lauda's exact line -- something like, "you young drivers may be rabbits, but I am the rat, and rats eat rabbits"???

[xpensive]

"He has his talent confused with his salary"

MrE on a well known British F1 driver.

[modbaraban]

Not a direct quote but translation:

Driving fast is frightening. Driving slow is embarrassing.

(Alex Mochanov, VLN SP2 champion 2008 (2nd overall) and a TV presenter, Racing Team Ukraine)

[nudger]

i found this recent exchange of words hilarious.

in responce to Mario Theissen saying flywheel kers has no road car future

max mosley
“Well, he probably hasn’t thought it through. He would be right if there were battery/super capacitor combinations that were very close to being practical – but all the information is that there isn’t. All these cars – you get these electric cars but if you drive them fast they just don’t have the energy. Good old Mario, but I think he may have got that wrong.”

on being asked about this
Theissen
“It is good that Max is learning about the engineering sides of the car,
I think with a little further understanding he may soon know as much as Flavio Briatore.”

[Conceptual]

What is that one by Enzo about Aerodynamics being for those that cannot build good enough engines?

That is the best that I have seen, although Bernies mockery of Jenson was pretty bad ass as well!

[Ciro Pabón]

Oversteer is when your ass hits the wall, Understeer is when your face hits the wall. -- ?? --

“In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?” - Dale Earnhardt

[xpensive]

"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.

[Callum]

I think Martin Brundle has quite a few gems..

something about a car crashing and "going straight to the scene of the accident"


brilliant:D

i loved the Mosely and Theissen one.