Subject: Sports » Auto racing (Page 5)

Jacques Lafitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Lafitte.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

American auto racer

Finishing second means you are the first driver to lose.

(1950 – 1982) Canadian racing driver

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

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

American auto racer

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

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

American auto racer

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

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.

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

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

American auto racer

It’s like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium.

American auto racer

My foot said go before my brain did.

top fuel drag racer

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.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

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

American auto racer