Subject: Sports » Auto racing (Page 2)

And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn’t surprising as this is an all Escort race.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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My dad once said that you meet a much nicer class of person there, but I'm not sure.

British auto racer
Auto racing Sports

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

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

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

Scottish auto racer
Auto racing Sports

There are four different cars filling the first four places.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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There’s no secret. You just press the accelerator to the floor and steer left.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

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

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

Argentinian auto racer
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Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.

Italian motor racing driver & entrepreneur
Auto racing Sports

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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Some drivers grow the fruit. Others just come in and pick it.

British auto racer
Auto racing Sports

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
Auto racing Sports

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

British racing driver
Auto racing Sports

If I was earning £1 a race, I'd still be a racing driver – just a poor one.

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

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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…. Into lap 53, the penultimate last lap but one. 

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
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