Quotes & Sayings About Motor Racing

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is. — Murray Walker

Motor Racing Outreach is great. They provide a chapel service every Sunday for drivers, wives, crew members, and others in the NASCAR industry so that we can gather and celebrate our faith. It's important to me to have this time before the race on Sundays. They also provide other services such as at-track childcare and counseling. — Austin Dillon

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

I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains ... otherwise they wouldn't race. — Sid Watkins

Mansell can see him in his earphone. — 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

And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself. — Murray Walker

It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. — Mario Andretti

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

I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it. — Juan Manuel Fangio

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions. — Bruno Senna

I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world. — Emerson Fittipaldi

At the start of each year I sit down and look at both calendars and plan it that way. Obviously sometimes there are some overlaps but I have to be organised. At the moment motor racing is taking precedence and I have been quite lucky this year in picking and choosing. — Liz Halliday

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. — Dale Earnhardt Jr.

I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem. — Murray Walker

Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing — Jody Scheckter

If you try you might succeed. If you don't try you won't succeed. On motor bike racing it goes= if you fall off and get back up you might win. if you stay lying down you won't win. Keep trying — Warren Fox

And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over. — Murray Walker

And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car. — Murray Walker

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

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous. — Sebastian Vettel

What's behind you doesn't matter. — Enzo Ferrari

I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy, and I was extremely influenced by it in books until I got there. — Billy Al Bengston

There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first ... being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go. — Carroll Smith

And he's lost both right front tires. — Murray Walker

Look up there! That's the sky! — Murray Walker

Alain Prost is in a commanding second position — Murray Walker

Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun. — Herbert Marcuse

And the first five places are filled by five different cars. — Murray Walker

Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough? — Murray Walker

To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster. — Stirling Moss

It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way. — Murray Walker

The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander. — Murray Walker

I have spent
or wasted
my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games. — Brock Yates

I was there when I said it. — Murray Walker

Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record. — Murray Walker

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast. — Alain Prost

Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that. — Kimi Raikkonen

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

Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher. — 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

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

Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place. — 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

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

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

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

And all Niki really has to do now is coast — 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

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

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

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

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

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing. — Carlos Ghosn

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

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

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

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

Yes! Yes! There's the attitude. Where was that girl during the race? Off getting sushi? — Doug Solter

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion. — Murray Walker

Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth. — Murray Walker

Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it. — Carroll Smith

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

Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines. — Enzo Ferrari

And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race. — Murray Walker

All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell. — Dax Shepard

Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears. — Eddie Rickenbacker