Driver Ability Quotes

A good driver can make up for bad equipment way more than a good car could make up for a bad driver.

You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

I think when you look at our team, you have to say that the weak point is probably still the driver.

These race cars are dangerous and you don't put someone in one unless you are 100 per cent certain that they can do what they need to do and be safe in the car.

It takes a good car for anybody to be good, but it takes a good car and a special driver to achieve greatness.

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.

It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.

Technology has certainly reduced performance differences among drivers. Whereas a talented driver could get a half-second out of every lap in the past, nowadays talent makes up for only about one or two tenths of a second. But the driver is still the key factor.

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

A racing driver has to be a good driver.

You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1.

We want the ability of the drivers to be the focus, not who has the latest gizmo.

Experience is always a plus, but I believe if you are good enough for an F1 seat, you are good enough from the year you arrive in F1.

If we didn't have Nico [Rosberg] and Lewis [Hamilton] in those cars - there's one or two guys down the field who in those cars would have delivered the same.

Sebastian Vettel's brilliant talent will ultimately come forth and he'll continue to show what he's capable of. I will never ever degrade Vettel's ability. Sooner or later, he'll prove anyone so wrong

Daytona is a restrictor-plate race and, unlike Daytona, guys can't get in a line at Phoenix and go to the front. Daytona and Talladega (Ala.) have always just been two different forms of racing. With the draft being so important at those two tracks, it's more of a team deal than an individual deal. What happens at Phoenix and the races after that has to be done on your own. You can't help each other at Phoenix. You just have to go race.