Top 25 Best Quotes About Racing

[Dave Hedgehog]

DubZeus said:

Good drivers have dead flies on the side windows. Walter Rohrl

quality

[1000TCR]

When accelerating the tears of emotion have to run off horizontally to the ear. (Walter Röhrl)

[Dr Slotter]

Fangio - "Less brakes, more accelerator".

[stephen300o]

"A crazy man finishes in the cemetery".

Juan Manuel Fangio

[Roadru77er]

The Moose said:

The bullst stops when the flag drops

You can slide further on bullst than you can on gravel.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

My own reflection on my 5 years of racing alternates between:

"I bought 5 years of amazing life experience that not many people ever get to experience and enjoy"

And

"I spunked enough on racing to have been able to buy myself a nice flat, outright for cash..."


I still refer myself to the first quote. Well, it's all I can do, right?!

[Rovinghawk]

"It's not until you go too far that you know where the limit is"

Villeneuve?

[JDMDrifter]

Love this one

[corozin]

"The most important componant on any racing car is the nut that holds the steering wheel"

[daytona111r]

James Hunt on his racing suit
"Sex, breakfast of Champions"

[R_U_LOCAL]

Enzo Ferrari:

"Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines."

And:

“I don't sell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has to hold the engines in.”

(Probably a bad translation from Italian, but you get the idea)

[BMWDAVE82]

Some top quotes here, thanks for sharing OP

[Freakuk]

Marco Simoncelli (RIP) - "You live more for 5 minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all of their life"

One of mine - "if you're not crashing, you're not trying hard enough"

[FRA53R]

"There may be more important things in life than driving fast, but if there are I don't want to know about them"

[Roman Moroni]

Pit Pony said:

"If I didn't crash, I wasn't going fast enough" - McRae (Rip)

"If in doubt, flat out" RIP x2

[coppice]

Unfortunate that the sainted Colin couldn't confine this philosophy to driving cars.

[machineripper]

Freakuk said:

One of mine - "if you're not crashing, you're not trying hard enough"

Also a great one.

[Coatesy351]

Markku Alen

"now maximum attack,"

[TurningRetro]

Mark Donohue when asked by Porsche engineers during development of the 917-30 whether it had enough power:-

"it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear."

[CallorFold]

itcaptainslow said:

"If everything seems under control you're just not going fast enough" - Mario Andretti if I remember correctly.

I like this one