Dan Wheldon Quotes

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

That's a hallmark of NASCAR... We have gotten to where we've gotten because we're able to have the best drivers in the world, the best team owners and then giving them a package that creates the most exciting racing.

Not everyone can win the European Championship.

I think what makes things interesting in Formula E, and I really hope it happens with me, is that many drivers are able to win the race. Maybe many drivers can win the championship.

I was driving in Formula Renault 2.0... with Daniel Ricciardo.

We're going to do whatever it takes to bring that NASCAR style of racing on the track to full fruition. That's simply what we have to do.

I've learned what F1 is like, and it is an extremely competitive sport on and off the track.

When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting? You've got to have friends out there. You can't do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

A race driver needs to be quick, to be intelligent, to have good relationships and be in the right place at the right time. There are a lot of factors that would create a successful race driver.

Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.

The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

From where started, I think it is too far down to try and win a championship at the end of the season, although we had a very good first race at Mondello and scored some good points.

No matter how good a driver you are, you have to have the right car and the right team behind you in order to succeed.

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat.

Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units.

I'm a sport fan. So, I have always watched everything, and I used to watch racing. Formula One was always on. The genius about it is that it's on at lunchtime on a Sunday.

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.

Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.

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.

The competition in today's world of racing is so tough.

So there is going to be that balance of understanding how to get the best out of the car that day, whether it's 15th or even if I have a shot at a top 10, protecting that car so we can bring it back when we have to.