Coolest racing quote?

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When Lauda joined McLaren in 1983, he said;

"The car is not as bad as John makes it look like"

John Watson responded;

"He'll learn, if he drives it fast enough..."
"I spent most of my money on wine and women...I wasted the rest"

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Race engineer: Kimi, we need three-tenths per lap please, three-tenths per lap.

Kimi: "THEN GIVE ME MORE POWER!"

2014 Austrian GP

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Colin;
- Is the Lotus 72 understeering or oversteering for you?

Ronnie;
- Um, err, don't know really, just give me Emerson's settings.
"I spent most of my money on wine and women...I wasted the rest"

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Youthful impetuousness and courage are not enough, nor is the will to succeed. To be a driver means that one must be part of the machine for hours, hands at the wheel and gear lever, feet on throttle, clutch, and brake, and eyes on the revolution counter, water, and oil gauge. God help the man who loses control for even a fraction of a second, or who is mastered by emotions and thoughts concerning matters other than racing. The machine will kill him without a doubt...
Rudolph Caracciola
To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.”
Sir Stirling Moss

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This has been run before, but it's sooo cool;

AJ Foyt from the pits to driver Arie Luyenduk after he was overtaken by Danica Patrick;

"You were just passed, by a little girl."
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Mark Donohue wrote: If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

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xpensive wrote:This has been run before, but it's sooo cool;

AJ Foyt from the pits to driver Arie Luyenduk after he was overtaken by Danica Patrick;

"You were just passed, by a little girl."
* Arie Luijendijk

and that's funny - despite seriously demotivational :lol:
"Explain the ending to F1 in football terms"
"Hamilton was beating Verstappen 7-0, then the ref decided F%$& rules, next goal wins
while also sending off 4 Hamilton players to make it more interesting"

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how did this not come up yet?

'okay mark, priority rosberg, priority rosberg.'
'don't think so, mate. britney's in the wall.'

interlagos, 2006
44 | 22 | 14

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Don't know who exactly said this, or are these exact words, it happened after one driver didn't make through the corner!
It went something like this : '' He run out of his talent in the middle of the corner! ''

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I think it went something like "I was fine until mid-corner, that's pretty much where I ran out of talent and spun the car." and I think it was Tom Fowler.

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"Piquet raced on while his teammate tried to find out how far you can drive a bonfire."

- Clive James

Nearly everything in Clive James' season reviews is pure comedic gold anyway:

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A shark? No, I like to think I'm more like a panther. A shark attacks from behind without you knowing. A panther, you know it's coming - but he still gets you..
Lewis Hamilton, 2014
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Poles: *****
Wins: ***

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"We broke something, i think it was traction..." Carl Edwards

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Steve S14 wrote:Marcus Gronholm "up in the ass of timo"

this is by far my favorite racing quote in the interview towards the end of this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqQhQSbe6fw
Guys, I'm slowly working my way through this thread because I haven't looked at it before.

But that's the winner so far :o

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I think it was Monza but I could well be wrong ?

Back in '97 or so when Brundle said "His tyres are absolutely rooted" and Murray was lost for words for a bit.
Being the legend he was, he recovered pretty quickly though.

What a commentator !

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