Race car driver Quotes

Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

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

You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake.

Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner.

The important thing is to keep trying

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

The car (FT86) is not only FUN to drive, but in terms of quality and precision of handling, the car has very much surpassed any expectations I had. More easily put, if you had blind folded me and told me this was a new creation by BMW's M department, I would not even hesitate to believe you. It's that good.

Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.

Winning isn't everything to me, but it's a close second.

Losing isn't something that I can just brush off and fake a smile to hide my frustration. It's that will and determination that I hope will get me where I want to go.

Everything was fine until I left and then I ran out of talent!

To finish first, you must first finish.

Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing!

How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.

There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it.

When you're driving a 750hp machine at 320km/h, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.

A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

I'm kind of quiet but when I put my helmet on, it's like you flip a switch. I'm ready to go.

You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful.

We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.

I think the penalties are grossly unfair. I think it's borderline shameful.

Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal

I've been waiting to get back in the Miller Lite Ford since Homestead.

The team at the shop have put a lot of effort into building me a fast Ford Fusion for Speedweeks. Being in the Unlimited gives us a chance to see what we've got to work with for the Daytona 500. I think both myself and Joey in the No. 22 will be fast down here. I'm ready to go.

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else.

F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

There's always room for improvement.

No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.

The only way to be productive is to be positive.

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot;

if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me where I belong.

We're far from having too much horsepower.

..my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, so I am very much looking forward to competing in my home event and giving the fans something to cheer.

It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength.

It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.

I've already done enough to have earned 'good driver,' so if I can be known as a great person and a good driver, that's better than only being a great driver.

My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid.

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.

Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.

The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.

Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother.

I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon

If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point out some of the negatives.

When I was in Japan with my girlfriend Jessica, she would have had acupuncture every day if she could. I can just about stomach going to a chiropractor and I visited a talented one when I was there, but when he tried a needle on me, it was horrible. My muscles tightened and it didn't work at all.

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.

We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver/engineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked.

I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit.

Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up.

It's all I've ever done, and there's something about being in that car.

Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.

To do something well is so worthwhile, that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy

For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness.

Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.

Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.