Subject: Sports » Auto racing

It will be like lying in a bath with your feet on the taps, but not as comfortable.

Scottish auto racer

Racing is 99 per cent boredom and one per cent terror.

Australian auto racer

Wally Dallenbach's like a kite without a tail out there.

American auto racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.

Italian motor racing driver & entrepreneur

…. Into lap 53, the penultimate last lap but one. 

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

You might not think that’s cricket, and it’s not; it’s motor racing.

(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

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

The lead is now 6.9 seconds… in fact, it’s just under 7 seconds.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

American auto racer

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

American auto racer

When I raced a car last it was at a time when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. Now, it’s the other way round.

German auto racer

Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna’s Lotus sounding rough?

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

There are four different cars filling the first four places.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Need to tie some kerosene rags around his ankles so the ants don’t eat his candy ass.

American auto racer

There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

Scottish auto racer

At 180 mph, when your front wheel wants to play pogo stick, you don't do nothing. You don't sneeze, you don't hiccup, you don't even breathe. All you do is point it and hang on.

American motorcycle racer

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

British auto racer

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

British auto racer

If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.

boxing writer & sports historian