Tom Wolfe Quotes

First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit.

I'm a racing driver and I need to race, that's what I do.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

I don't know how to drive a car.

As a driver, you want to race every lap possible, especially when you've got a good car.

I've never been to a race car race before.

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

If I get into a car on a circuit, I drive as fast as I can; that's it!

Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

Formula 1 is about running to the maximum.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool.

We need to make sure F1 stays the quickest category of all, and GP2 is not that far away, so that's a little bit worrying.

I'd be a race car driver. I love fast cars.

I'm a fast driver.

I'm just a race car driver.

My wife had a go at me last night. She said, Youll drive me to my grave. I had the car out in thirty seconds.

It's just fantastic to feel the speed and the braking. It was a hard work - to hold an f1 car on the circuit is a job in itself. To drive quickly is another thing. I enjoyed it.

It would be quite good to be a Formula 1 racecar driver.

you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

In the rest of the world though, particularly in Europe, the most popular form of racing is not stock cars. It's not NASCAR. It doesn't look anything like NASCAR. It's Formula 1.

I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.

On My First Driving Lesson “First things first: A car has five gears. What is that smell?…Okay, first thing before that first thing: Farting in a car that’s not moving makes you an asshole.