Robby Gordon Quotes

It's good to get a good lap and get pole.

It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.

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've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.

Racing is very physical.

Every time I get in the car, I'm just focused on being the fastest, trying to win the race, trying to get pole.

Qualifying has been one of my strongest points all my career.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

Every lap is different.

When I'm on the track, I like hearing the fans cheer me on.

My aim, as always, is to deliver a good and consistent performance across the year. That is the goal for any driver.

Love it or hate it, motorsport is not purely talent. It never has been and never will be.

Sixty points is massive, especially when you are racing a Mercedes with another 70 horsepower.

If you go back many years ago, you could cruise around and build up a big point lead. You cannot cruise around at all. You gotta be on it. And that's what I think people really enjoy. I've always believed that brings out the biggest moments, too. It brings out the driver talent.

I'm simply trying to go as far as I can go in racing.

In Formula 1, you need a great level of endurance because the races are long, so you need a pretty good base endurance.

You want to see how many races you can win, you want to see how many laps you can lead.

In cycling, you just race. When you get to the finish, you see the result.

I ran track, and I was really good at it. I was really fast.

Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.

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