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Mansell handles corners better than Maradona.

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

American auto racer

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

My foot said go before my brain did.

top fuel drag 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

The lead is now 6.9 seconds… in fact, it’s just under 7 seconds.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

Every car has a lot of speed in it. The trick is getting the speed out of it.

American auto racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

British racing executive, writer & photographer

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

American auto racer

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

American woman auto racer

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

Argentinian auto racer

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

American woman drag racer

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

American auto racer

Put an ordinary driver in an Indy-type race car and he'd probably crash before he got out of the pit area.

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

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

auto racing writer

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

Scottish auto racer

To win in the slowest possible time.

Australian race car driver