Best Motor Racing Quotes & Sayings

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve. — Murray Walker

The appeal of the Riverside 500 was based on that overall spectacle of witnessing a mob of brightly colored, bellowing automobiles gamboling over the countryside like a herd of runaway steers. Stock car roadracing is in fact like a mechanical stampede, and we personally think it's maybe the neatest form of motor racing known to man. It's definitely the greatest spectacle in roadracing. — Brock Yates

That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year. — Murray Walker

I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one. — Murray Walker

Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays. — Colin Chapman

As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth. — Murray Walker

And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill. — Murray Walker

Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures. — Murray Walker

Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen. — Murray Walker

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway,

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing. — Murray Walker

And there's the man in the green flag! — Murray Walker

Schumacher has made his final stop three times. — Murray Walker

Unless I am very much mistaken ... I AM very much mistaken ... ! — Murray Walker

As you can see, visually, with your eyes. — Murray Walker

The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick. — Murray Walker

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th. — Murray Walker

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. — Peter Dunne

Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place. — Murray Walker

Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest. — Murray Walker

And all Niki really has to do now is coast — Murray Walker

We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath...a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. — F. T. Marinetti

I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it. — Ayrton Senna

Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position. — Murray Walker

We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well. — Jackie Stewart

Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place. — Murray Walker

Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th. — Murray Walker

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like. — Mario Andretti

Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher. — Murray Walker