Driving Technique Quotes

Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.

I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years. Whatever influence that has never leaves you. If you learn to drive a car, and you learn the right way if there is ever a right way. You learn the good aspects, you learn to drive properly. And that never leaves you.

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.

People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.

In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.

I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

When I'm doing longer runs I can be very consistent on the lap times because I know what the car is doing all the time.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Most corners are similar in terms of how you can beat them.

When it comes to hitting solid drives, the secret is to swing within yourself. I know that sounds like a cliche, but it's true. If you swing at 100 miles per hour and hit it on the toe, you won't hit the ball as far as you would with an 80-mph swing that catches the ball in the center of the clubface.

It was when I first tried a go-kart in '96. I saw a go-kart race locally, and that got me excited about it, and I wanted to try one. When I got to try one, I just loved the speed and after that it became more about how to improve the lap time and all the details and that.

Stand on the gas, my friend. If your right foot doesn't ache, you're obviously doing something wrong.

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

When I drive there is not much emotion in there. I'm just trying to get everything right and get every lap, every corner perfect.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

I am one of the best to have raced in F1. I am probably not fastest in qualifying, or the wet, but I am 9.5 in all areas. I try to benefit from that.

I drive like my body and my limitations leave me to do it. After my accident, I discovered that to do a roundabout in the road car, you don't have to grab the steering wheel, you can use friction to turn.

Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.

When I got to Ferrari I learnt to be less aggressive, and how to set up the car for my driving style.

It is not only about just doing a fast lap. You also need to use your brains and be clever, and I think that is what makes you a complete driver at the end.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

The way I see it is: You've got to take it to the limit, not over the limit, for sure, but you've got to take it to the limit with your driving style.

You know if you have driven well or not, but sometimes because of the car or package you simply cannot do any more.