Romain Grosjean Quotes

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you've got to start saving. It's not easy.

When I'm doing longer runs I can be very consistent on the lap times because I know what the car is doing all the time.

You've got to distribute the tyre life over the stint, I think that's the main limiting factor, more than car balance.

Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.

Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.

Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is.

People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I don't know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.

Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.

I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into turn one, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.

When you drive a car, either you manage it and feel it with the grip of the car, or, like me, you fix it on visual speed. If you do it through the grip, you lose it very quickly - because when the track changes, you can have scares. I do it visually, so if I am going too fast I fight to get the car back, but I do not do it by feeling the grip.

When I got to Ferrari I learnt to be less aggressive, and how to set up the car for my driving style.

As soon as you go off the racing line you go through all the dust and then have to spend time cleaning up your tires.

There's no better benefit than being out on the racetrack, learning what's going on with the track and the tire and all that stuff. To me, that's a big influence.

You have to let the car do the job and try to trust it, try to understand what you are doing, try to be smooth, and try to be incredibly smart to set the car up, because that is the most important part.

Things can change very quickly in Formula 1.

Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you.

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

People compare me to Isiah Thomas because of my quickness and change-of-direction, the way I change speeds and run the team.

Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.

When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life is like a run-on sentence, you never pause. You're always grabbing something. You're eating in front of the television. You're out grazing with your friends, and you're learning and digesting the values of the fast-food culture. And that's what I really believe is destroying this world. We've been indoctrinated from early childhood that more is better.

The zip on the pitch is very zippy