coln72 Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Best quotes and sayings about car racing "Gotta work on the nut behind the wheel before you start fixing bolts on the car". "Racing makes Heroin addiction look like a vague wish for something salty." -- Peter Egan Colin Chapman: Simplify, then add lightness Roger Penske: the harder you work, the luckier you become Jackie Stewart: It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance When you think you know it all, it's a sure sign you don't The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a large one and work down from there On racers that favored implementation of restrictor plates: "If they don't want to go that fast, all they have to do is lift...and somebody better tie a kerosene soaked wrag around their legs to keep the ants from eating their candy a$$!" As an instructor getting into a car for the first session with a student: "don't try and impres me, you won't." "don't try and scare me, I already am." "Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers." -Colin McRae "It's not a throttle-it's a detonator." -Jeremy Clarkson "Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines." -Enzo Ferrari "Racing is the best way to convert money into noise" - unknown "To finish first, you must first finish" – unknown Oversteer is hitting the wall with the back of the car, understeer is hitting the wall with the front... Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down. -Paul Newman If the car feels like it is on rails, you are probably driving too slow. -Ross Bentley Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall. Torque is how far you take the wall with you. "Cheap, fast and reliable. Pick two." "Racing ... because golf, football, and baseball only require one ball." – Anonymous Racing costs today exactly the same as it did twenty years ago.. it takes every penny you have. - Unknown I was doing fine until about mid-corner when I ran out of talent - Unknown Juan Manuel Fangio: "Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio." Mario Andretti “If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.” "If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough" "It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down." ....it would have been cheaper to spend our money on cocaine and hookers....... ( at a bar, name unavailable) You'll know you've made it.....when you wear out your rear tires.....before your front tires..... ( Former IP Champ and all around great fellow) I KNOW I'm the slowest part on the car..... ( B. Wright, repeated too often....) "Never run out of real estate, ideas and traction at the same time." - seen on a Track Daze T-shirt "Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that." - Jackie Stewart "Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax.” - Jackie Stewart "He who turns least wins." Ross Bentley Poverty is owning a racecar. (bumper sticker) Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece...but to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, and defiantly shouting "wow, what a ride." (On the back of a race car trailer somewhere). "Here, hold my beer" - anybody before doing something arguably awesome Wide open until you see God, then brake – unknown Speed costs, how fast do you want to go? Friend of mine used to say: "Hang on, saw this in a cartoon, I think I can pull it off." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rian Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 I loled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coln72 Posted March 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough" Loved this one :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwarf Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 (edited) "Ran out of brakes, ran out of road, ran out of talent." Neal Bates. "So your telling me you turned up to the ATM of talent and were told you had insufficent funds?" Bean, legendary service crew from NSW. Said to me. And I did. "If you look really closely, you can see the greenish hue of the electro-tree magnet" Stated about an infamous ARC driver who spent more time in the trees than on the road. "we came around the corner and had a bit of a moment." Ari Vatenen with a smoke wreck of an Escort in the background. "The difference between a shrub and a tree is that you can drive through shrubs." Anon. Edited March 4, 2012 by Redwarf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altezzaclub Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 "Cheap, fast and reliable. Pick two." Ah... gold! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7shades Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 "Yeah, we'll make it through there, those saplings look fairly sm....." - Uncle Shady Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleRedSpirit Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 "Understeer scares the driver, oversteer scares the passengers" - anonymous. "Dear God" - Terry Herryman - Ari Vatenens co driver at Isle of Man rally 1983. http://youtu.be/0ubdVZP1oV8 2 minutes in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willis Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 ^^^ I think that's the best video I've ever seen lol. The dear god moment was scary/hilarious. Awesome vid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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