Subject: Sports » Auto racing (Page 4)

At 180 mph, when your front wheel wants to play pogo stick, you don't do nothing. You don't sneeze, you don't hiccup, you don't even breathe. All you do is point it and hang on.

American motorcycle racer

I'm going to have minor brain surgery.

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

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

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

All I had to do is keep turning left!

auto racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I didn't want my Mom to know I was drag racing for 20 years so I told her I was in prison.

American drag racing crew chief & pioneer

In my sport the quick are too often listed among the dead.

Scottish auto racer

You have to wonder what kind of chemical reactions were taking place inside Walker’s head when he said these things.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I've never seen driving as a sexual thing – I just could never consider it in that light. I think women are interested in the drivers because of the dangers, but some of us are as dull as Old Nick.

Scottish auto racer

I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways.

American auto racer

Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Some of the ravines are so deep that if you topple over, your clothes will be out of date by the time you hit the bottom.

British auto racer

Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

British racing executive, writer & photographer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

And Michael Schumacher is actually in a very good position… he’s in last place.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator