Subject: Sports » Auto racing (Page 6)

Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

And Michael Schumacher just stood on his seat and pulled out something special.

British auto racer

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

French auto racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I'd rather have an accident than fall in love – that's how much I love motor racing.

Italian woman auto racer

You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Senna’s car is absolutely unique, apart from the one following, which is identical.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

Everything was fine until I slid left and ran out of talent!

the 'father of drag racing'

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

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

American auto racer

It’s basically the same, just darker.

stock car racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

American auto racer

When I raced a car last it was at a time when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. Now, it’s the other way round.

German auto racer

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

Scottish auto racer

There are four different cars filling the first four places.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator