Niki Lauda Quotes

As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.

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

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then you understand those guys are human and pretty reasonable, and finally succeeding in winning your first race, in circumstance as such, it was just an amazing moment.

Reaching F1 was always the ultimate goal, I suppose, ever since driving a go-kart my father had bought me for my fifth birthday.

I cant really imagine life without Formula One.

I am not a driver, I am a racer.

I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff.

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

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.

For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.

I love a lot of high speed turns, turns where you have to push yourself, force yourself to go fast. Then there's something telling your foot to lift off, because it's so fast, and it's impressive when you get that feeling and just drive on.

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

When I joined F1, I was 19 years old, full of energy.

I think about F1 all the time... it's just my passion.

I am focused on what I am doing. I am enjoying my time in Formula One; I am enjoying the experience.

I love racing, I love racing everything really - karts, anything - so I do need to keep doing that. But the focus is on Formula One.

I feel like I was born to ride the track.

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

Suzuka is a nice circuit.

When I first climbed into a go-kart, aged 13, I thought to myself: 'This is what I want to do with my life, and I want to drive F1.'

If you no longer have the view of winning in F1, then you should consider something else.

I'm not here for anything other than world championships. I don't want to be here driving around and finishing races and scoring points. I only want to win and if I can't do that - if I can't see that I have a future with wins and championships - then I'm not up for Formula One, I'll do something else where I can win.