Auto Racing Quotes

This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.

The first time I used a simulator was in 2014 when I was competing in the Ginetta Junior Championship.

NASCAR is not immune to the down economy.

I am, after all, a NASCAR fan.

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona.

I love racing and I've always enjoyed racing. I love to try and go back to the local short tracks and do those races. And sometimes I do.

I like the competition that Nextel Cup gives us. The schedule is difficult. But this is something I want to do for sure.

I've never seen a NASCAR race; I've seen an Indianapolis 500 race.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses

My favorite was Jeff Gordon. I just followed him growing up because I started watching racing when he came on the scene.

Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I like road-course racing.

We're going to do whatever it takes to bring that NASCAR style of racing on the track to full fruition. That's simply what we have to do.

I've driven for A. J. Foyt, now the Andrettis, and my NASCAR team is Richard Childress Racing, which is one of the greats in that sport.

There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.

There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.

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.

Auto racing has been a big part of my life since I was very young. When the car feels right, it's like, 'We've got a big machine.'

I've done drag races. I've done Long Beach Grand Prix stuff. I've done NASCAR stuff. Just about anything carwise under the sun, I've done. Whether it be driving schools or racing schools, I've had a passion for it for a long time.

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.

In this country, the most popular form of car racing is the huge multibillion dollar industry that's called stock car racing. That's what NASCAR is. That's what the SC stands for in the middle of NASCAR, Stock cars.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

Living in Indy, you have to be a race fan.

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.