Lap Time Quotes

I'm just a race car driver.

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just attending a go kart race.

Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.

Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

When you get to an F1 car and after one lap you see the pace is there, it is special emotions and I miss it so much.

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 watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

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

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

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

It was when I first tried a go-kart in '96. I saw a go-kart race locally, and that got me excited about it, and I wanted to try one. When I got to try one, I just loved the speed and after that it became more about how to improve the lap time and all the details and that.

I go out and drive 100 percent every lap.

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

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.

If you do a good lap, you know it is a good lap. If you get that feeling, it is addictive; you want more and more.

My focus is definitely on the racing.

The biggest chance to overtake is in the first two laps of a race. Later on will always be more difficult.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I am so competitive I cannot imagine myself without a racing car.

Sixty points is massive, especially when you are racing a Mercedes with another 70 horsepower.

I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.