Bernie Ecclestone Quotes

As a child, I always wanted to be a race car pilot.

I get asked all the time 'didn't you ever want to be a race car driver?' And I knew pretty early on that I was going to be on the other side of that equation.

When I turned 16, I got my driver's license like the rest of my classmates, but I also got an extra present: a two-day practice session in a Formula Ford: my first open-wheel racing car and the first step on the ladder toward becoming a professional driver.

My goal is to be a racer, and I want to be someone who inspires Americans to watch Formula One.

I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.

If I hadn't become an actor, I would've pursued a race-car driving career.

My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just attending a go kart race.

To be completely honest, I am obsessed with Formula 1 so in the off-season I would like to have just a few more races to still race in F1.

Since I was a child I've been looking up to Formula One. Dreaming to be a Formula One driver.

I think I've done a fair bit of my talking on the track over the course of the years, leading up to Formula One and Formula One.

I would love to do a one-off race somewhere - NASCAR would be awesome.

I'm asked to drive touring cars, I'm asked to drive IndyCar, but I think Formula One is much more hi-tech and that's where I want to be in as long as I can.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.

[Formula One racing looking after Jackie Stewart in 1968] was not so intense and, yes, it was much more dangerous - what was definitely different back then was the level of safety.

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

I'm not a girl racer, I save my speed for the race track.

It's true that driving an F1 car in testing is helpful, it's not that you learn everything.

Growing up, I was always a big fan of Jeff Gordon.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It's hard to see how it pulls in fans.

I am thrilled to be part of the Indianapolis 500.

I'm very confident about being on the grid in Australia in 2003.

I'd like to do a full season of IndyCar if I was going to do it I think. But whether I'll get a chance to do that, I don't know.

I am happy to come back to Sahara Force India.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.