Alex Zanardi Quotes

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

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

The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me.

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.

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.

A good driver can make up for bad equipment way more than a good car could make up for a bad driver.

And I'd get back to the cars being physical challenges to drive - to tame the beast. The cars we have at the moment are fantastic bits of engineering, but it's a little too comfortable, a little too easy. I think I'd go back to making the driver a bigger variable.

If you sign someone with the speed but whose time is over, they will set up the car differently and badly. You are 80 percent of the time going through corners, and you set up the car differently compared to someone who comes and wants to go flat out.

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.

I think it's always better to be in an F1 car because, in general, the car behaves itself.

If you know how to set up the car, if you know how to work with the team, you know what you need to have a comfortable car to drive.

Whether I'm riding a horse or driving a car, I'm feeling them, judging what they're doing, trying to work out what I can take them up to.

I have to perform every time I'm in the car, and show that I'm capable, and I need a little bit of timing and luck to come together.

Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.

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

There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.

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

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.

In World Series, everything is a bit slower than F1. But each time I sit in the car, whether it is World Series or F1, once I am in the cockpit, I am mentally prepared for what the car is. I don't have to physically drive it to remember what it is doing.

You're completely putting yourself on the line when you're in drag. They're either going to love you or they're going to hate you, but the most important part is having fun.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

There's so many bits on a car these days it's hard to know where everything is. You have a bit of an idea but if you are behind someone and you suddenly change direction it's hard to know exactly where the car is.