Subject: Sports » Auto racing

I got hit in the head pretty hard. My clock ran backwards for two years.

American auto racer

You get more than one of them things and you call them Loti.

American auto racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Finishing second means you are the first driver to lose.

(1950 – 1982) Canadian racing driver

And Michael Schumacher is actually in a very good position… he’s in last place.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

British auto racer

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

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Louise Goodman to British racing driver Johnny Herbert: Johnny, it's started to rain, how will that affect the track?

Herbert’s reply: Well, it makes it wet usually.

British racing driver

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

The faster he goes, the quicker he’ll get to the pits; the slower he goes, the longer it will take.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

All I had to do is keep turning left!

auto racer

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

(1929 – ) English race car driver

And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

British auto racer

Senna’s car is absolutely unique, apart from the one following, which is identical.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

American auto racer

And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

In my sport the quick are too often listed among the dead.

Scottish auto racer