Subject: Sports » Auto racing

It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

(1940 – ) Italian-American auto racer

It’s like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium.

American auto racer

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.

American auto racer

My first priority is to finish above rather than beneath the ground.

American auto racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

It sure didn't make me the million dollars people said it would, but it sure made my ex-wife happy.

American auto racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Nigel Mansell is someone with about as much charisma as a damp spark-plug.

British sportswriter

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

Argentinian auto racer

Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.

Italian motor racing driver & entrepreneur

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

The new asphalt is like putting a tuxedo on a rattlesnake.

American auto racer

Nigel Mansell is the only man who goes to Nick Faldo for charisma lessons.

English actor & television personality

That’s the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Ernie Irvan could go bear hunting with a switch. He ain't never afraid.

American auto racer

It's hard to describe what it's like to see a stock car flying through the air knowing it's going to land on top of you.

American auto racer

You have to treat death like any other part of life.

American auto racer

Alain Prost is in a commanding second position.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

And as Mansell comes into the pits, he’s quite literally sweating his eyeballs out.

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

American auto racer

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