Automotive Competition Quotes

Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

If Honda does not race, there is no Honda.

Mercedes and Ferrari fear Red Bull more than any other team because they know the potency and capability that we have.

And the first five places are filled by five different cars.

You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that's clearly why manufacturers are involved - it's such a good testbed.

NASCAR, there's nothing wrong with it, it's very competitive, but the specs are very tight on tolerances.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it's not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life.

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

Road racing has given me a good life, and I'm not being cocky, but I've brought something to racing, too.