Motor Racing Quotes

What's behind you doesn't matter.

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

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

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

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

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

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

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Mansell can see him in his earphone.

I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.

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

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

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.

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

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

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

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

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

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

Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Look up there! That's the sky!

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

And there's the man in the green flag!

And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

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

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

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

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

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

Let's stop the startwatch.

As you can see, visually, with your eyes.

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

Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing

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

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

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

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

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.

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

I was there when I said it.

Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

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