Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Quotes

There will always be someone who can pay more than BVB. But Dortmund have made a lot of progress during my time here.

I really want to thank Red Bull Racing and Dr. Helmut Marko for the confidence they have in me.

There is always going to be competition from other countries and different venues who want to host a race, but the British GP is a must have.

F1 needs Ferrari much more than Ferrari needs F1.

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

Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

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.

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.

It makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today.

When you're talking about proper competition, I think Formula E has good competition.

I'm very happy to work with Prema and work in F2 because I have the feeling in some ways, it's a bit more difficult to drive and to work with the tyres than F1.

We don't have any kind of sponsors. The players invest themselves. They need money. They need resources... That's why, in sports and teams, they have sponsors - in soccer, in the NFL. Everyone has sponsors who invest and help to pay daily expenses.

Mercedes and Ferrari fear Red Bull more than any other team because they know the potency and capability that we have.

In an F1 team at the end you have your little family and I feel that Red Bull is definitely mine and my place to be at the moment.

We want to be a works partner. Ferrari and Mercedes have their own works teams so where would you be in the pecking order if you're a customer?

If I don't get a race deal then I expect to be a test driver for a top team.

Before my accident I had to fund my racing through finding sponsors myself so I am use to it. Obviously at that point I was 15 or 16, knocking on business's doors going 'I am a racing driver, a British champion and I want to be in Formula 1, will you give me an amount so I represent your brand'.

I'm still a Red Bull driver. I'm part of this family more than ever.

We need to make sure F1 stays the quickest category of all, and GP2 is not that far away, so that's a little bit worrying.

Jules Bianchi was my racing godfather, and he spoke a lot to Ferrari about me.

I think F1, ultimately, is man and machine at its absolute limit. It is modern day chariot racing.

It is one thing to drive a Formula 1 car, and it is another thing to actually race it.

I don't have a sponsor or come from an exotic country where I can bring tonnes of money.

You have to have commercial income so you can spend on players.