Professional Racing Quotes

I get to do the Dakar Rally. I get to do the Daytona 500. I get to do the Indy 500. I'm very fortunate to get to do these things.

I believe I have earned my shot in F1. I have won F3, and we all know F3 is a very high level.

People will say I'm only where I am because of my husband or because the team might want to employ a woman, but you don't get to drive a Formula 1 car unless you're good enough, especially with a top team like Williams.

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

I would love to drive a MotoGP but I'm not sure Ferrari agrees.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

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.

Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other high-profile events: football, Formula One or golf.

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.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I'd already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars - and when you hit F1 it's an even higher step up. It's something you get used to over time.

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.

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

We're at the top echelon of motorsports, and we've got guys who have never won Late Model races running on the racetrack. It's pathetic. They don't know where to go.

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

It's all very well to talk about how it would be great to have a woman driver, a woman with sponsors and marketing, that's all great but to get into that drive you have to perform. That's what I realized early on when I got into Formula One.

For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.

Racing is been my profession since I was 19 years old.

I love Daytona and Talladega. I'd like to think maybe I could quit one day running all the races and just run a few that I like.

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.

Elliott Sadler races really clean.

Racing is work, so that's not a hobby.

If you haven't really raced a lot in lower categories, and you make the jump to Formula One, you have to learn in Formula One, and a lot more people are watching.

I raced motocross; I raced for Suzuki when I was a kid.

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

I've never had a car sponsor or all the things that most others seemed to have had.