Quotes and One Liners

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

Finishing second means you are the first driver to lose.

Gilles Villeneuve

(1950 – 1982) Canadian racing driver

Auto racing Sports Competition Losing

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

Auto racing Sports On the Lotus race car

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

Pamelli Jones

American auto racer

Auto racing began five minutes after the second car was built.

Henry Ford

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

Auto racing Sports

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Auto racing Sports On winning the Indy 500

Put an ordinary driver in an Indy-type race car and he'd probably crash before he got out of the pit area.

Al Unser

American auto racer

Auto racing Sports

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

Bobby Unser

American auto racer

Well I don't know which one has more money but I'll tell you what… either one could burn a wet mule with hundred dollar bills.

Auto racing Money Sports Wealth On Rick Hendrick and Felix Sabates

American 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

Auto racing Misspokements Sports Time

Passin’ Earnhardt is like trying to take a bone out of a Pit Bull’s mouth.

Auto racing Sports On what racing at Winchester Speedway

American auto racer

Auto racing Sports Dale Earnhardt

It’s like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium.

Dick Trickle

American auto racer

My foot said go before my brain did.

J.R. Todd

top fuel drag racer

Auto racing Sports Explaining a red light foul during quarterfinals at Sonoma

Alain Prost is in a commanding second position.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

(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

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Dave Barry

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Auto racing Sports Speed

I could stand up in the seat and not hit my head.