Subject: Sports » Auto racing (Page 3)

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

(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

…. Into lap 53, the penultimate last lap but one. 

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

You drive the car, you don't carry it.

American woman auto racer

As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

American auto racer

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

My first priority is to finish above rather than beneath the ground.

American auto racer

Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Jenson Button is in the top ten… in eleventh position.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Speed has never killed anyone – suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you.

English broadcaster, journalist & writer

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

British auto racer

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

British auto racer

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

American auto racer

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

American auto racer

He can’t decide whether to have his visor half open or half closed.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can; relaxing your brain is fatal.

(1929 – ) English race car driver

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

Mansell handles corners better than Maradona.

My dad once said that you meet a much nicer class of person there, but I'm not sure.

British auto racer