Competitive Racing Quotes

This is a highly competitive sport, and we are all very passionate when we are on the track.

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

It is one thing to drive a Formula 1 car, and it is another thing to actually race it.

I bought my first dirt bike when I was 12, and I started racing motocross when I was 15 and started getting pretty successful. Then I started racing snowmobiles at 17 and decided I wanted to focus on that and see if I can make a career at it.

Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him

We're going to do whatever it takes to bring that NASCAR style of racing on the track to full fruition. That's simply what we have to do.

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

My idea is to win all the iconic motor sport races in the world.

Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.

And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.

Maybe next season we can race.

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.

I'm deeply involved in making the race closer and tighter and safer.

People enjoy watching sports at the weekend and watching motor racing and whatever sports, and Formula One is the number one global platform which is competing regularly - not like the Olympic Games or the World Cup - so the macro case was this is something that we should be part of because it's going to grow, and it does.

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

I think what makes things interesting in Formula E, and I really hope it happens with me, is that many drivers are able to win the race. Maybe many drivers can win the championship.

Every racing driver in the world dreams of making it to F1, there's only 22 spots on the grid.

I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.

If you go back many years ago, you could cruise around and build up a big point lead. You cannot cruise around at all. You gotta be on it. And that's what I think people really enjoy. I've always believed that brings out the biggest moments, too. It brings out the driver talent.

It's funny because when there's something written about me in Velonews or Cyclingnews, the headline isn't "the other" Armstrong; its Armstrong wins another race. With Lance in retirement, everyone I know goes to those sites because they think Lance is racing again.

Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.

For most part, the rule of thumb is pretty much you're going to race guys hard the last quarter of the race and for sure the last run of the day. You're still going to give and take until that last pit stop.