Quotes and One Liners

Auto racing Sports Women Asked if female drivers were as strong as their male counterparts

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

You drive the car, you don't carry it.

Janet Guthrie

American woman 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.

Benny Parsons

American auto racer

Accidents Auto racing Problems Sports

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

Jackie Stewart

Scottish auto racer

Auto racing Sports Ferraris

All I had to do is keep turning left!

George Robson

auto racer

Auto racing Misspokements Sports On winning the 1946 Indy 500

I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well.

Emerson Fittipaldi

Brazilian auto racer

Auto racing Sports

Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Auto racing Insults Misspokements Sports

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

British race commentator

This is lap 54; after that, it’s 55, 56, 57, 58.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

Auto racing Sports Cale Yarborough

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

Mario Andretti

(1940 – ) Italian-American auto racer

Auto racing Sports Brakes

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

Auto racing Expressions Sports On a newly re-paved Darlington Raceway

American auto racer

I never lost my job while I was leading a race.

American auto racer

Auto racing Situations Sports Work Winning

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

American auto racer

Auto racing Sports Wally Dallenbach

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Auto racing Sports On starting from the back of the grid

My dad once said that you meet a much nicer class of person there, but I'm not sure.

Damon Hill

British auto racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I imagine the conditions in those cars today are totally unimaginable.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator