Racing Car Quotes

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.

The Dodge Charger in the late '70s at Daytona, that looked like an awesome car.

I believe there is room in the market for a daily driver that embodies all the attributes of the best track racing car and the comfort of a luxurious sports car.

I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.

You have to first of all feel good with yourself before doing something which requires being fast or driving a racing car.

Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.

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

Quite frankly, Kimi Raikkonen is the fastest driver in the world

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

I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.

I think it's always better to be in an F1 car because, in general, the car behaves itself.

As soon as I got my driver's license, I went crazy, and I got the Ford Cosworth, which was this limited edition street racing turbo. It was like this 200-miles-an-hour monster.

My favourite car I drove in the 'shoot out' at Silverstone was the 2016 Mercedes DTM car. I loved every moment in it, the downforce being particularly surprising.

I am so competitive I cannot imagine myself without a racing car.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track.

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

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

I had to drive with a roof in LMP2, and I managed to get used to that quite quickly - although it's still not a Halo, it's still different to what I'm used to.

Grandma's Camry, I don't think it goes past 100. If you're in an F1 car you can do circles around my Grandma's Camry. But it's Ol' Reliable, for sure.

Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.