F1 Quotes & Sayings

I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished. — Jean Alesi

The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights ... I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1. — Bernie Ecclestone

But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more. — Valentino Rossi

Driving is the only thing I love about F1. — Kimi Raikkonen

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most. — Ayrton Senna

Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it's a video game, and it's not. It is very, very dangerous, and it's tough. — Jacques Villeneuve

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics. — Kimi Raikkonen

I'm done with F1 unfortunately. I'm too old, the train has passed — Valentino Rossi

I am not designed to come second
or third, I am designed
to win. — Ayrton Senna

My brother and I are always playing F1 on the PlayStation and now I am going to be in one of those cars on the games! — Lewis Hamilton

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver. — Fernando Alonso

I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. — Rowan Atkinson

Life is strange, but F1 is simply crazy. — Eddie Irvine

It's [F1] your life. You're focused on just one thing and there's no room for anything else. Friends don't necessarily understand, because the way you think about life develops completely differently to how it does for normal people. — Mika.

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident. — Damon Hill

I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power. — Jacques Villeneuve

I'm very privileged. I've always had a very good life. But everything that I've gotten out of life was obtained through dedication and a tremendous desire to achieve my goals ... a great desire for victory, meaning victory in life, not as a driver. To all of you who have experienced this or are searching now, let me say that whoever you may be in your life, whether you're at the highest or most modest level, you must show great strength and determination and do everything with love and a deep belief in God. One day, you'll achieve your aim and you'll be successful. — Ayrton Senna

I love the role of being the experienced driver and that is definitely the case next year - I think I am the most experienced guy in F1 next year. — Jenson Button

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost. — Sebastian Vettel

You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1. — Jean Alesi

It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it. — Alain Prost

From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died. — Jackie Stewart

Americans are very patriotic and they want someone to support. In order to entice more fans, and to allow F1 to compete with Nascar and IndyCar, there needs to be an American driver. — Alexander Rossi

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me. — Nelson Piquet

I think it was wrong to take the decision to slow F1 down. It was much better in my day, when it was already a lot safer than it had been in the '70s and '80s, but you could still drive crazy fast. — Jacques Villeneuve

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body. — Jenson Button

I thought I would be a go-kart mechanic - not an F1 driver — Fernando Alonso

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet. — Alain Prost

F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge. — Jean Alesi

When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vision; one eye perceives space from the other. I don't experience a scene visually at F32. It's more like F1.4. — Keith Carter

These new 'hybrid' F1 cars represent an extremely complex project. — Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete. — Valtteri Bottas

My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming. — Kimi Raikkonen

I've been through so much in my career in F1, particularly in 1995, and I did achieve so much that I thought that it's not worth it any more to push your luck further. [on his retirement — Mika Hakkinen

Formula E is trying to do something totally different to F1. When the battery technology does improve, because of our championship, and it transcends into road cars, it will be cool to think that we have been at the very pinnacle of new technology and the future of the automotive industry. — Sam Bird

As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special. — Pastor Maldonado

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage. — Alain Prost

I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me. — Heikki Kovalainen

Golf is just for fun. I have no time to be a pro golfer, not even after F1. I think it's too late and I'm too old to learn now. Golf is just a hobby and maybe I can improve a little bit more. — Heikki Kovalainen

When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car. — Jenson Button

Error, no keyboard. Press F1 to continue. — Woody Allen

When Ron Howard does 'Rush,' he has to learn and steep himself in F1 culture and European racing culture, and that's part of the fun of the gig. You learn to learn. Your real skill as a director is being a learner and an observer. You're constantly learning another thing in context. — Jon Favreau

To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most. — Jenson Button

It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn't do it. And vice versa - when I was ready, their seats were taken. We always had a relationship, but what's important is that I pretty much started my F1 career with them and ended it there, too. — Mario Andretti

I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car. — Jenson Button

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there. — Jean Alesi

Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver. — Nico Rosberg

Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them. — Pastor Maldonado

If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right. — Jenson Button

I'm a casual F1 racing fan. I'm probably more of a stock car, NASCAR guy. — Robin Zander

I am excited about Indian Grand Prix F1 race. I will support the Force India team. I have friends like Michael Schumacher but I will support Force India because that is the Indian team and country comes first. — Sachin Tendulkar

When crossed with Yorkshire, Hampshire, or Chester White females, the Duroc breed can create some top-rung F1 females for producing butcher stock and show pigs. — Kelly Klober

F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad. — Jacques Villeneuve

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards. — Murray Walker

This stone is flawless F1 I keep shooters up top in the F1 — Nicki Minaj

The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be. — Jenson Button

The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 cars is so quick, I expect it to be another completely different experience, but still one that I know I'm going to enjoy. — Nelson Piquet

I think there is a guy called Michael. It looks as though he's got a talent. He will make his way to F1. — David Coulthard