Hobart Alter Quotes

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.

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

I love driving fast. I grew up in Germany; we have the Autobahn here, where we can drive without a speed limit. And throughout my 20s, I always had fast cars, and I always went to the maximum. Like, my average cruising speed was 250 km/hr.

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.

I think that just sitting down and having casual conversation is the hardest stuff to do. But the extremes? I know what it feels like to come racing around the corner at 90 miles an hour, sliding the car sideways. I know what gear I'm hitting it in when I'm coming around the corner and where I need to downshift. So to me, that's the fun stuff.

Of course, the cars are getting safer and safer but, when you are going at 340km/h, it can never be safe. This I knew from the start.

For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot.

It's just fantastic to feel the speed and the braking. It was a hard work - to hold an f1 car on the circuit is a job in itself. To drive quickly is another thing. I enjoyed it.

I'm excited by going 85 mph, head-first, down an ice track.

I'm an adrenaline junkie but also a petrol head.

I like the danger, I like the adrenaline and I need it to race.

Auto racing has been a big part of my life since I was very young. When the car feels right, it's like, 'We've got a big machine.'

I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.

You get such a visceral thrill driving a race car. You think you've driven, and then you're like, 'Oh, I was doing something for 20 years that I didn't realize I hadn't experienced the real version of.'

The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.

It is actually quite exciting when you're flying headfirst into a barrier — the initial part, the initial part is actually quite fun, especially when you hit the gravel trap and you get some air, and then you see it coming and you think 'erk — it's gonna hurt!'

I've got a Ferrari. VROOM! I do 104 from the garage to the front door.

I might have tried bungee jumping, until I saw that video of that guy whose cord came untied. He didn't know it 'till he hit the ground. Oh, he flew off that tower, hollering at his buddies. "Whoo, check me out, dudes! Oh, that ground is coming up..." WHAM! And what do you say, if you're the operator of that ride, to the next guy in line? "All right dude, you're up."

I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.

When I was a kid my dad would say, "Emo, do you believe in the Lord?" I'd say, "Yes!" He'd say, "Then stand up and shout Hallelujah!" So I would ... and I'd fall out of the roller coaster.