Subject: Sports » Auto racing (Page 5)

It’s basically the same, just darker.

stock car racer

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

Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.

American auto racer

You might not think that’s cricket, and it’s not; it’s motor racing.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I want to be the fastest woman in the world… in a manner of speaking.

American woman drag racer

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

Argentinian auto racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

auto racing writer

Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.

Italian motor racing driver & entrepreneur

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

British racing driver

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

American auto racer

What you’ve got to remember about Michael is that under that cold professional Germanic exterior beats a heart of stone.

British auto racer

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I got hit in the head pretty hard. My clock ran backwards for two years.

American auto racer

He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner.

American auto racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

When I drove for British teams… they called me the ‘Tadpole' because I was too small to be a frog.

French auto racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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