Subject: Sports » Auto racing (Page 4)

After the third flip, I lost control…

American 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

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

auto racing writer

There is nothing wrong with the car except that it is on fire.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

sportswriter

Finishing second means you are the first driver to lose.

(1950 – 1982) Canadian racing driver

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

(1929 – ) English race car driver

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

Scottish auto racer

I was like a pig with a wristwatch.

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

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

It’s like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium.

American auto racer

Some of the ravines are so deep that if you topple over, your clothes will be out of date by the time you hit the bottom.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

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

British auto racer

He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner.

American auto racer

There’s no secret. You just press the accelerator to the floor and steer left.

American auto racer

Need to tie some kerosene rags around his ankles so the ants don’t eat his candy ass.

American auto racer

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

the 'father of drag racing'

Louise Goodman to British racing driver Johnny Herbert: Johnny, it's started to rain, how will that affect the track?

Herbert’s reply: Well, it makes it wet usually.

British racing driver