Racing Expertise Quotes

People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.

The TT is a very precious thing to the riders. These guys that do the roads are very unique people. On the first hand you've got the bravery, the knowledge of the circuit, the guys live this - this is what they are about. I am very aware of that.

Honestly, I feel nobody can drive a race car better than I can. Driving-wise, I feel like I can out-drive anybody.

We're at the top echelon of motorsports, and we've got guys who have never won Late Model races running on the racetrack. It's pathetic. They don't know where to go.

I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.

Mercedes and Ferrari fear Red Bull more than any other team because they know the potency and capability that we have.

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

I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.

The way I see it Bill Elliott is just another way of saying fast

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.

Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.

I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability.

As far as I'm concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that no one else possessed. And he won with everything he put his hands on, including off-road.

I'm no different from other drivers - my talent is in my brain, not in my right foot.

I've been to more racetracks than any other person I've met. Almost every track, missing only a few of the newer ones.

I want to rely on my gut feeling. Isn't that what made great race drivers in the end?

Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.