If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver. — Ayrton Senna
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. — Colin McRae
As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. — Ayrton Senna
Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win.
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood. — Ayrton Senna
Race is only relevant when it will heighten racial tensions, so ABC doesn’t mention that the driver was black. They do, however, give you the critical detail that it was a luxury car. — Dave Smith
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers
If I wanted to learn how to race a speed car, I'm not going to go and race with Formula One drivers. I'm going to go to a beginner's class. — Jay Shetty
As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it. — Smokey Yunick
If you're in control, you're not going fast enough. — Parnelli Jones
It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. — Mario Andretti
Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win. — Enzo Ferrari
Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you. — Jeremy Clarkson
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts. — Ferdinand Porsche
It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance. — Jackie Stewart
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio. — Juan Manuel Fangio
If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. — Mark Donohue
When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast. — Alain Prost
I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car. — Nigel Mansell
Car Racing Quotes
Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. — Henry Ford
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes. — Emerson Fittipaldi
If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough — Mario Andretti
Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win!
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough. — Ayrton Senna
You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built. — Colin Chapman
Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it. — Richard Childress
Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines. — Keith Duckworth
Auto Racing Quotes
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. — Damon Hill
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. — Hunter S. Thompson
Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail. — Junior Johnson
It's basically the same, just darker. — Alan Kulwicki
It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium — Dick Trickle
We broke something, I think it was traction. — Carl Edwards
When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.' — Cristiano da Matta
When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again. — Bobby Allison
You win a race, the next race it’s a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That’s what is funny. But that’s what is interesting. And that’s what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time. — Michael Schumacher
Nascar Racing Quotes
If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we're missing the love part of the equation. — Tony Stewart
Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal — Kyle Petty
I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them. — Jesse Ventura
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. — Darrell Waltrip
Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors? — Jim Hightower
The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses. — Mario Andretti
In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it. — Jeff Gordon
It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991 — Alan Kulwicki
Kyle Busch has got to be the loneliest NASCAR driver ever. He's led so many laps he never sees anybody in front of him for two-thirds of the race. He just sees clean racetrack...He's the Maytag guy. — Kyle
Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious. — Carlos Mencia
Motor Racing Quotes
Mansell can see him in his earphone. — Murray Walker
Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him — Murray Walker
Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts — James Hunt
Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion. — Murray Walker
I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it. — Ayrton Senna
Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others. — Ayrton Senna
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. — Kimi Raikkonen
Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position. — Murray Walker
Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays. — Colin Chapman
With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is. — Murray Walker
More Race Car Driver Quotes
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. — Colin McRae
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Race is only relevant when it will heighten racial tensions, so ABC doesn’t mention that the driver was black. They do, however, give you the critical detail that it was a luxury car. — Dave Smith
If I wanted to learn how to race a speed car, I'm not going to go and race with Formula One drivers. I'm going to go to a beginner's class. — Jay Shetty
As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it. — Smokey Yunick
If you're in control, you're not going fast enough. — Parnelli Jones
It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. — Mario Andretti
The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes. — Emerson Fittipaldi
Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it. — Richard Childress
The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio. — Stirling Moss
I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control. — Jeff Gordon
Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others. — Ayrton Senna
I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family. — Tony Stewart
The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses. — Mario Andretti
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. — Juan Manuel Fangio
Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out. — David Alan Grier
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? — Janet Guthrie
To be a driver that can cross off one of those marquee events as a winner, that cements your legacy in motorsports, to be able to win the Daytona 500 is the ultimate dream of a race car driver. — Tony Stewart
Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. — Ray Bradbury
The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way. — Paul Schrader
In the old days drivers were fat and tires were skinny. — Jose Froilan Gonzalez
I feel safe when I'm on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate. — Sterling Marlin
You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family. — Kurt Busch
I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver. — Rodger Ward
I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide. — Mitch Hedberg
The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators. — Nigel Mansell
As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track. — Kevin Harvick
Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do. — Justin Allgaier
We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit. — Jay Leno
Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race. — Michael Andretti
Dale Earnhardt was the best race car driver there will ever be in NASCAR. I would hope you don't expect me to replace him because nobody ever will. — Kevin Harvick
I lean on a lot of drivers. I have a dirt racing background so I gravitate towards asking for advice from drivers who also dirt race, people like Clint Bowyer since dirt racers seem to have a similar driving style and like the car set up similarly. — Austin Dillon
The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver. — Hans Selye
A great race car driver in a bad car doesn't make great results. A great car and a bad race car driver doesn't make great results. You have to have both. It's the combination of driver and car. — Jeff Burton
It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload. — Chris Gerdes
Our racing simulator is more about gathering data about the car, trying different setups, and trying to find speed in the actual racecar as opposed to speed in the actual driver. There's no other way to get that kind of testing in, without doing the actual event, or getting outside and spending the money to make it happen. And it costs a lot to go to the racetrack. — Martin Truex Jr.
Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me. — Michelle Rodriguez
I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there. — Kurt Busch
My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. — A. J. Foyt
As a kid, I loved my Matchbox cars, my Big Wheels, and the race cars on TV. When I laid eyes on my first go-kart when I was just five, it gave my desire for making things with wheels go fast a focus. This combined with the fact that I've been incredibly competitive since a young age made for the proper mix of passion and aggression to become a race car driver. — Andy Lally
The makeup of the drivers has changed a lot with so many young drivers coming and a lot of the legends moving on. Compared to when I started, it's gone through a lot of changes. The cars have changed a lot and the approach to racing. There are a lot more employees. It's become a much bigger business and more corporate. — Matt Kenseth
The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events. — Denny Hamlin
I think I was always realistic - well, not the Percy thing, that was ridiculous - but I never dreamed of being a racing car driver or anything. — Alan Titchmarsh
My father was a racing driver, his name is Don Halliday. I grew up with it all around me. I have always been into fast, dangerous sports, even as a child. As soon as I got in a car I knew it was for me and that I would enjoy racing and competing. My mother was also involved in Solo One. She always said I was like my father and would want to compete one day. — Liz Halliday
Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act. — Brock Yates
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