Lewis Hamilton Quotes

I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power.

From GP3 to Formula 2, it's obviously a step, but it's only a step on driving I would say. Here from Formula 2 to Formula 1, it's a huge step on driving because we have nearly 400 BHP more, with a lot more downforce. So it's a completely different car.

The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 cars is so quick, I expect it to be another completely different experience, but still one that I know I'm going to enjoy.

These new 'hybrid' F1 cars represent an extremely complex project.

F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge.

The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive.

I'm very into my cars. I always ready the Top Gear magazines just to see what cars are out next and what sort of performance they give. It can range from the smallest cars to the biggest ones.

There is no medicine maybe for everything, but there is a big medicine which is downforce in an F1 car.

Weight is crucial and it is very beneficial - if you have spare weight in Formula One that is powerful performance.

All cars have a natural gait, a speed at which they're happiest. The Corniche is perfect at around 65-70mph. I did a ton in it once, which was completely horrible. Apparently, it'll reach 120mph, but not with me in it.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.

I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.

Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.

As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.

Modern cars I don't like so much.

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.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

Formula 1 has to be more and more also a laboratory, a centre of advanced research for innovative technologies for tomorrow's cars. The KERS is very important in this context, and Ferrari as a manufacturer had, and has, extraordinary support in Formula 1.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

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

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

We have moved away from basic racing, where you see how the drivers fight with the cars to their physical limits and then make mistakes - or not.