Martin Sorrell Quotes

Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird.

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

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.

I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

I think it was wrong to take the decision to slow F1 down. It was much better in my day, when it was already a lot safer than it had been in the '70s and '80s, but you could still drive crazy fast.

I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1.

It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.

In Colombia maybe 95% of the population follow Formula One. It's crazy.

As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.

When I joined F1, I was 19 years old, full of energy.

I said it was my dream to drive in F1.

I have a passion for racing, for competing and for fighting on the track.

I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking 'that is what I want to do.'

It's true that Ferrari and Monaco are the two most important things to F1.

In World Series, everything is a bit slower than F1. But each time I sit in the car, whether it is World Series or F1, once I am in the cockpit, I am mentally prepared for what the car is. I don't have to physically drive it to remember what it is doing.

Renault has always been a big player in the motorsport world that brings up incredible memories.

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

I think F1, ultimately, is man and machine at its absolute limit. It is modern day chariot racing.

When I first climbed into a go-kart, aged 13, I thought to myself: 'This is what I want to do with my life, and I want to drive F1.'

I can't imagine voluntarily standing beside an F1 track in the rain, watching motorised wedges plastered in corporate decals zooming past at 500mph.

F1 needs Ferrari much more than Ferrari needs F1.

I used to go a lot to F1 when Real Madrid didn't play at the weekends. It was a lot of fun and I always wanted Real Madrid to play on a Saturday so I could watch F1 on Sunday!

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.