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Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.

(1929 – ) English race car driver
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To finish first, you must first finish.

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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Cale Yarborough would have to call a service station to get a tire changed, but he's as good as anyone who ever drove a race car.

American auto racer
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I had to go off the circuit twice to avoid him. I don't know what Rene Arnoux is doing in Formula One racing. He should be on the beach.

Belgian auto racer
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He can’t decide whether to have his visor half open or half closed.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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Passin’ Earnhardt is like trying to take a bone out of a Pit Bull’s mouth.

American auto racer
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It’s lap 26 of 58, which unless I’m very much mistaken is half way.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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When I drove for British teams… they called me the ‘Tadpole' because I was too small to be a frog.

French auto racer
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Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

British racing executive, writer & photographer
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Every car has a lot of speed in it. The trick is getting the speed out of it.

American auto racer
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To win in the slowest possible time.

Australian race car driver
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And he’s done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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There is nothing wrong with the car except that it is on fire.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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Grand Prix motor racing is like Punch [magazine]. It is never as good as it was.

auto racing writer
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There are four different cars filling the first four places.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well.

Brazilian auto racer
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