Subject: Sports » Auto racing (Page 6)

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

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

British auto racer

Tambay’s hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Alain Prost is in a commanding second position.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

(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

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

Scottish auto racer

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

American woman drag racer

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

American auto racer

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

That’s the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

It’s like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium.

American auto racer

And the first five places are filled by five different cars.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

You have to treat death like any other part of life.

American auto racer

The faster he goes, the quicker he’ll get to the pits; the slower he goes, the longer it will take.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

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

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

American auto racer

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

American auto racer