Subject: Sports » Auto racing (Page 5)

What you’ve got to remember about Michael is that under that cold professional Germanic exterior beats a heart of stone.

British auto racer

Grand Prix driving is like balancing an egg on a spoon while shooting the rapids.

British racing driver

I'm going to have minor brain surgery.

American auto racer

Tambay’s hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

To finish first, you must first finish.

American auto racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

And there’s the man in the green flag!

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I'd rather have an accident than fall in love – that's how much I love motor racing.

Italian woman auto racer

There are four different cars filling the first four places.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

Put an ordinary driver in an Indy-type race car and he'd probably crash before he got out of the pit area.

American auto racer

Frentzen is taking… er… reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch, and one on the throttle.

auto racing commentator

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Grand Prix motor racing is like Punch [magazine]. It is never as good as it was.

auto racing writer

Well I don't know which one has more money but I'll tell you what… either one could burn a wet mule with hundred dollar bills.

American auto racer

And Michael Schumacher just stood on his seat and pulled out something special.

British auto racer

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

(1929 – ) English race car driver