Subject: Sports » Auto racing (Page 6)

Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

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

auto racing writer
Auto racing Sports

After the third flip, I lost control…

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

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
Auto racing Sports

I had to go off the circuit twice to avoid him. I don't know what Rene Arnoux is doing in Formula One racing. He should be on the beach.

Belgian auto racer
Auto racing Sports

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
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Activities Auto racing Misspokements Sports

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
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

I got hit in the head pretty hard. My clock ran backwards for two years.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

And he’s done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

It’s basically the same, just darker.

stock car racer
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

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

(1929 – ) English race car driver
Auto racing Sports

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

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

American auto racer
Auto racing Expressions Sports

All I had to do is keep turning left!

auto racer
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

Schumacher has made his final stop three times.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports