Coolest racing quote?

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nudger wrote: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.”
:lol: Max getting his foot firmly planted back in his mouth with the help of Theissen.

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another brundle paraphrase

ambition overcoming adhesion
..?

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nudger wrote: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.”
Great quotes...
A lawyer to try to tell a guy with a doctorate in engineering how to engineer huh?


Silly Max - now go sit in the corner and put the Dunce's cap on your head :lol:

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"There are two types of drivers at Indianapolis, those who have crashed and those who are going to crash". -Eddie Cheever

"I told you it was loose". -Parker Johnstone's answer when asked what he wanted written on his tombstone.

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Murray Walker - "It's been 16 years since you've bought McLaren you had some good time and you had some bad times, what do you remember best?"

Bernie Ecclestone - "Well, I don't remember buying McLaren..."

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Well, the best quotes to me were from the greatest:
(traduced)
"A crazy man finishes in the cemetery."

"Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!"

"I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse."

"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."

"Women rule our lives, don't they?"

"You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well."

"You always have to try to be the best, but never feel you are the best."

"When a car is good and engine sounds harmoniously, the noise transforms in music and the driver is like a orchest director."

"Senna was the only one, at any time, that asked me for advice".

and the best:

"It's easy: I accelerate more and brake less"
"You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well." -Juan Manuel Fangio

"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence." -Ayrton Senna

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"Lets win with the least possible advantage"

:wink:
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Belatti wrote:"Senna was the only one, at any time, that asked me for advice
Who said that please?

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He did say 'the greatest', so that must imply Juan Manuel Fangio! :wink:
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"My car quit so I parked it." (after retiring from the 1988 Monaco Grand Prix)

"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."

"It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen." - pre-season 1994.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H.P.Lovecraft

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If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Gilles Villeneuve
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H.P.Lovecraft

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An F1 commentator on the cause of a DNF:

"They said the cause was an electrical fault. Sure, a rod came throught the block and cut a wire."
Enzo Ferrari was a great man. But he was not a good man. -- Phil Hill

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mx_tifosi wrote:He did say 'the greatest', so that must imply Juan Manuel Fangio! :wink:
indeed
"You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well." -Juan Manuel Fangio

"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence." -Ayrton Senna

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"You can see how the car actually accellerates when skidding over the run-off area!"

Eurosport commentator John Watson on the curious friction-coefficient of grass.
"I spent most of my money on wine and women...I wasted the rest"

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not an F1 quote..but a racing one.

Jack Burnicle commenting on the World Supersport Motorcycles at Philip Island last week.

Cal Crutchlow nearly fell off the bike with both feet off the footpegs.

"He was hanging on there with his testicles..."

Too funny... =D>
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