Quotes by arrogant racing drivers ?
Discussion
I've just bough the book 'The Death Of Ayrton Senna' by Richard Williams.
On the back sleeve is the famous quote 'Once Senna was accused of blocking an opponent. "but I am Senna" he said'. Now a god like Senna can get away with saying something like that, however the vast majority of drivers simply can't and end up sounding like t0ssers.
So the question is boys and girls, what is the most arrogant thing you've ever heard a driver say. Be it on tv, radio, assembly area or parc ferme. Come on spill the beans !
On the back sleeve is the famous quote 'Once Senna was accused of blocking an opponent. "but I am Senna" he said'. Now a god like Senna can get away with saying something like that, however the vast majority of drivers simply can't and end up sounding like t0ssers.
So the question is boys and girls, what is the most arrogant thing you've ever heard a driver say. Be it on tv, radio, assembly area or parc ferme. Come on spill the beans !
a quote that will stay with me for the rest of my life was when i went on one of those experience days back in about 1993, and some tool of a punter, said as we were jostling for position to get the best seat in the car for the demo laps, " i should go in the front coz i've got the biggest knob!"
i thought , "yup"
i thought , "yup"
stockhatcher said:
a quote that will stay with me for the rest of my life was when i went on one of those experience days back in about 1993, and some tool of a punter, said as we were jostling for position to get the best seat in the car for the demo laps, " i should go in the front coz i've got the biggest knob!"
i thought , "yup"
i thought , "yup"
I'm sure he meant to say "...I am the biggest knob..."
jimjamspider said:
"When Brundle asked him why he hadn't been to see Shuey get his award, he said he'd been for a shit"
That was one of the best moments for me last year. I am surprised that the press didn't pick up on it more. Not arrogance though...pure comedy genius!
That was one of the best moments for me last year. I am surprised that the press didn't pick up on it more. Not arrogance though...pure comedy genius!
i thought it was arrogance, pure and simple. wneh Kimi has half the number of victories that schumacher has he can say what he likes but until then, some respect is in order i think. he might hate the bloke but by saying that he was just being childish. a true champion shows respect to his opponents. Take the example of the photo of Senna, Prost, Piquet and Mansell sat on the pit wall together. They might have hated each other but they respected each other. Not that MS cared, he promptly put in one opf the best racing performances of hte last five years. blown tyre? what blown tyre!....
lazyitus said:
Kimi was funny on the last 2006 F1 race.
When Brundle asked him why he hadn't been to see Shuey get his award, he said he'd been for a shit.
When Brundle asked him why he hadn't been to see Shuey get his award, he said he'd been for a shit.
This was the point that my GF had sat down to watch (for the first time that year). She said after laughing.. "This is funny stuff. I might like this." After the first lap she was gone again.
Arrogance of sorts, in bold.
Dale Earnhardt: HANS Device
Though many racing experts touted the HANS (head and neck safety) helmet-restraint system at the turn of the millennium, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt was not among them.
"Earnhardt was pretty much the ringleader against it," racing journalist Ed Hinton recalled. "He once refered to the HANS device as, quote, 'that damned noose.' His commonsense told him if you wore straps around your helmet and you got in a crash it was going to hang you. So he refered to it as the noose because he thought it was going to kill him rather than save him...
"He sat right here in Indianapolis [in August 2000] and he looked me in the eye and, with a lot of people present, he said, 'I'm comfortable the way I've got my stuff rigged, and I have not pulled my brain stem loose and I've hit the wall many times.' I have not pulled my brain stem loose - his exact words... And I looked him back in the eye and my thought was, 'Yet.'"
Tragically, Dale Earnhardt died after hitting the wall during the Daytona 500 in February 2001. The cause of Earnhardt's death? "Basilar skull fracture from restrained torso, unrestrained head."
[The HANS device (which NASCAR made compusory six months after Earnhardt's death) saved Ritchie Hearn's life. "I went head-on into the wall at 210 miles an hour (139 G's). I didn't have a headache, I didn't black out - nothing. I didn't have a mark on me except for my foot."]
Ulitmate racing crashes said:
Dale Earnhardt: HANS Device
Though many racing experts touted the HANS (head and neck safety) helmet-restraint system at the turn of the millennium, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt was not among them.
"Earnhardt was pretty much the ringleader against it," racing journalist Ed Hinton recalled. "He once refered to the HANS device as, quote, 'that damned noose.' His commonsense told him if you wore straps around your helmet and you got in a crash it was going to hang you. So he refered to it as the noose because he thought it was going to kill him rather than save him...
"He sat right here in Indianapolis [in August 2000] and he looked me in the eye and, with a lot of people present, he said, 'I'm comfortable the way I've got my stuff rigged, and I have not pulled my brain stem loose and I've hit the wall many times.' I have not pulled my brain stem loose - his exact words... And I looked him back in the eye and my thought was, 'Yet.'"
Tragically, Dale Earnhardt died after hitting the wall during the Daytona 500 in February 2001. The cause of Earnhardt's death? "Basilar skull fracture from restrained torso, unrestrained head."
[The HANS device (which NASCAR made compusory six months after Earnhardt's death) saved Ritchie Hearn's life. "I went head-on into the wall at 210 miles an hour (139 G's). I didn't have a headache, I didn't black out - nothing. I didn't have a mark on me except for my foot."]
someone said:
Tragically, Dale Earnhardt died after hitting the wall during the Daytona 500 in February 2001. The cause of Earnhardt's death? "Basilar skull fracture from restrained torso, unrestrained head."
He didn't actually die from a Basilar skull fracture... although the HANS device would have saved him. He died from a broken neck.
Edited by MrKipling43 on Tuesday 9th January 14:05
jimjamspider said:
"When Brundle asked him why he hadn't been to see Shuey get his award, he said he'd been for a shit"
That was one of the best moments for me last year. I am surprised that the press didn't pick up on it more. Not arrogance though...pure comedy genius!
That was one of the best moments for me last year. I am surprised that the press didn't pick up on it more. Not arrogance though...pure comedy genius!
One man's comedy genius is another man's juvenile crudity, I suppose.
FWIW, I'd say that Kimi's comment was a set-up, albeit Brundle did not appear to be in on the act.
there was a great on a few years back after a closely faught stock hatch championship. the final race at Snett would decide it
the2 protagonists for the title were(I think)2rd abd 4th, and had a bit of a battle to get past the leader.
eventualy they did, and in the post race interview I was (sadly) watching with the cround and listened in amazement as the "champion" started slagging off these" ....other cars that were just in my way....",
Raised a few eyebrows at the time
the2 protagonists for the title were(I think)2rd abd 4th, and had a bit of a battle to get past the leader.
eventualy they did, and in the post race interview I was (sadly) watching with the cround and listened in amazement as the "champion" started slagging off these" ....other cars that were just in my way....",
Raised a few eyebrows at the time
jimjamspider said:
I really don't think that was set up. There is no way McLaren would want that sort of thing said and his manager wouldn't advise it if he is going onto Ferrari the following year and certainly Brundle wasn't expecting it. I just think he didn't give a s**t 
Except that this was his last race for McL., he had been frustrated because they had been keeping him on a leash for the previous five years, he and his advisors had been deceiving McL. for a year about his Ferrari contract, so I doubt that at that point he cared a whit what McL. thought - except to want to embarrass them.
What struck me was the timing.
Brundle walked directly from the Schumacher award-giving over to Raikkonen. I doubt that much more than a minute had passed between his leaving Schumacher and his coming upon Raikkonen.
Yet when Brundle got to Raikkonen, the latter was leaning casually against a wall having a chat with his trainer.
I don't believe that enough time could have elapsed that KR could actually have been occupying himself in the loo as he claimed he had been, then pulled his suit back on, then walked out of the pit or hospitality area and around and over to the track side of the pit wall, and then assumed his Joe Cool pose before Brundle made his brief walk over from Schumacher to him.
Remember that, in addition to wanting to embarrass McLaren, Raikkonen also wanted to embarrass Schumacher.
In the event he mainly embarrassed himself, but that's how teenagers think.
Edited by flemke on Tuesday 9th January 19:12
FourWheelDrift said:
Arrogance of sorts, in bold.
Dale Earnhardt: HANS Device
Though many racing experts touted the HANS (head and neck safety) helmet-restraint system at the turn of the millennium, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt was not among them.
"Earnhardt was pretty much the ringleader against it," racing journalist Ed Hinton recalled. "He once refered to the HANS device as, quote, 'that damned noose.' His commonsense told him if you wore straps around your helmet and you got in a crash it was going to hang you. So he refered to it as the noose because he thought it was going to kill him rather than save him...
"He sat right here in Indianapolis [in August 2000] and he looked me in the eye and, with a lot of people present, he said, 'I'm comfortable the way I've got my stuff rigged, and I have not pulled my brain stem loose and I've hit the wall many times.' I have not pulled my brain stem loose - his exact words... And I looked him back in the eye and my thought was, 'Yet.'"
Tragically, Dale Earnhardt died after hitting the wall during the Daytona 500 in February 2001. The cause of Earnhardt's death? "Basilar skull fracture from restrained torso, unrestrained head."
[The HANS device (which NASCAR made compusory six months after Earnhardt's death) saved Ritchie Hearn's life. "I went head-on into the wall at 210 miles an hour (139 G's). I didn't have a headache, I didn't black out - nothing. I didn't have a mark on me except for my foot."]
Ulitmate racing crashes said:
Dale Earnhardt: HANS Device
Though many racing experts touted the HANS (head and neck safety) helmet-restraint system at the turn of the millennium, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt was not among them.
"Earnhardt was pretty much the ringleader against it," racing journalist Ed Hinton recalled. "He once refered to the HANS device as, quote, 'that damned noose.' His commonsense told him if you wore straps around your helmet and you got in a crash it was going to hang you. So he refered to it as the noose because he thought it was going to kill him rather than save him...
"He sat right here in Indianapolis [in August 2000] and he looked me in the eye and, with a lot of people present, he said, 'I'm comfortable the way I've got my stuff rigged, and I have not pulled my brain stem loose and I've hit the wall many times.' I have not pulled my brain stem loose - his exact words... And I looked him back in the eye and my thought was, 'Yet.'"
Tragically, Dale Earnhardt died after hitting the wall during the Daytona 500 in February 2001. The cause of Earnhardt's death? "Basilar skull fracture from restrained torso, unrestrained head."
[The HANS device (which NASCAR made compusory six months after Earnhardt's death) saved Ritchie Hearn's life. "I went head-on into the wall at 210 miles an hour (139 G's). I didn't have a headache, I didn't black out - nothing. I didn't have a mark on me except for my foot."]
Not necessarily arrogant, but a before the 2001 Daytona 500, Earnhardt also said..
"I think it's gonna be some exciting racing, gonna see something you'd probably never seen on Fox."
He got that right.
Gassing Station | General Motorsport | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff