Track Design Quotes

Portland is a permanent road course built in a beautiful state, which is for me a fantastic area for many reasons. The downside is that the weather is so unpredictable that it's not uncommon to start the race on the dry and end with the rain as it happened to me in 1996 when I won my first Champ Car race.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler.

There is always going to be competition from other countries and different venues who want to host a race, but the British GP is a must have.

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

I have a very distinct memory of 'ExciteBike' and making my own courses. I had an obsession with that game.

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.

In F1 everything involves money, but there are other details to work on.

'Solja Rag' was designed for Juvenile. It wasn't one of them beats where I was gonna chop it and see who I was going give it to: it was Juvenile all over it.

It's my opinion tracks got too wide. You put 43 cars on the track, and if the turns are too wide like they are at some tracks, you sort of lose perspective of what's going on.

It makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today.

I really like the really high banked tracks.

Formula 1 need to have a good look at itself. As a show, I think we need to put on a better show for the fans.

When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don't want it built like that. It's quite embarrassing.

I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power.

CART is one of the safest racing series in the world.

Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.

The Yas Marina circuit is really pretty impressive. The track itself has some quite slow corners and not a great deal of overtaking opportunities, but it seems to combine a road course with a circuit course.

I would probably build somewhere between a half-mile and three-quarter-mile track. It would be sort of like Indianapolis Raceway Park. When I was a kid, that was my favorite track.