Allan McNish Quotes

Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.

I think what I've found is that in IndyCar, the balance is a bit more all over the place compared with Formula 1! You have to get used to that and work around it. Again, as a driver, you can help the situation by the way you brake and apply the throttle to make the balance better.

When I drive there is not much emotion in there. I'm just trying to get everything right and get every lap, every corner perfect.

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.

I'm a really good driver. I've been driving since I was very small, and I do like driving fast. I remember the first time my dad taught me that when you go into a corner you change down then put your foot right down on the way out. I'm very competitive about driving.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

People ask how hard it can be sitting down for work during a 500-mile race? Well, without power steering or power brakes, holding onto 650 horses in a car that has nearly 3,000 pounds of downforce and can produce up to 4Gs vertically and laterally can be extremely tough - even sitting down.

We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do.

I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.

If I get into a car on a circuit, I drive as fast as I can; that's it!

When you're driving on a normal track, you can see the braking point from 500 m. away.

My job is to get into the car and drive as fast and as well as possible.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there's so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.

Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?

People say a two-man sled is like driving a racecar, and a four-man is like driving a truck. And it feels that way.

In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.

By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. And the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. I race to win as long as I feel it's possible. Sometimes you get it wrong? Sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. But I race designed to win, as long as I feel I'm doing it right.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

The car drives really really good so far. No changes on the next pit stop. It's great, I can hold it down right along the bottom here in the corners I'm just ridin' around out here just waiting until later to make a move

I'd be a race car driver. I love fast cars.

Formula One applies stresses to the mind and body that are very extreme.

I have to be ready: I am focused, physically fit, ready to get in a car and go fast.

Generally, when I have a faster car, I just drive around the lapped cars that I'm lapping.

It takes a little time to return to a Formula One car after 15 months away and to get back in the rhythm again, but after about 20 laps, I was feeling really comfortable and enjoying myself.