Subject: Sports » Auto racing (Page 5)

We worked 80 hour weeks for 30 years to keep from having to get a real job.

American drag racing crew chief & pioneer

You can tell that you’re in trouble when you feel the air on the back of your neck instead of in your face.

American auto racer

If a man can f**k and drive race cars… man… I mean, what else-is there?

American auto racer

There’s no secret. You just press the accelerator to the floor and steer left.

American auto racer

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

American auto racer

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

Scottish auto racer

Schumacher has made his final stop three times.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

And he’s done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

American auto racer

It’s lap 26 of 58, which unless I’m very much mistaken is half way.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Colin had a hard on in practice earlier, and I bet he wished he had a hard on now.

motor racing commentator

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

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Nelson Piquet looks like a jockey being strapped into his car. Alan Jones looks like a commando on his way to Vietnam.

British auto racer & executive

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

(1929 – ) English race car driver

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

British auto racer

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

American auto racer

The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

American auto racer

The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator