Racecar Driver Quotes

I try to get away from the pits as quickly as I can. I speak to my engineer when I get out of the car, usually there's some press to do, then I will go off and have a shower and get my dry, clean overalls and clothing on. I'll have a massage, stretch and something to eat. I don't sleep, but I try to close my eyes for a while.

I never really looked at Formula One like that was the long-term goal. I obviously dreamed, and my aspirations were to get to Formula One, but I really started thinking about it in Formula 3 at 16, 17 years old, and I saw that it was right in front of me.

Auto racing has been a big part of my life since I was very young. When the car feels right, it's like, 'We've got a big machine.'

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

As soon as I paid the mortgage off in 1988, I started racing cars.

Personally, I would go back to V12s, which make a tremendous noise, and have open cockpits and make the drivers heroes again.

Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.

I'm a casual F1 racing fan. I'm probably more of a stock car, NASCAR guy.

My career in racing started at a very young age in California.

The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.

I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

It's amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud.

I've been fortunate to drive for some of the greats in racing.

Being an F1 driver is a crazy job but not what everyone expects. My year consists of 20% driving and 80% media, marketing, and travel.

I didn't think I was ever going to be a Cup driver. When I was a kid, before I started racing in the Xfinity Series, I thought that I was never going to get a chance, and then, if I did, I wasn't going to run well enough to maintain that opportunity and keep progressing.

When I'm done fighting, I want to look to get some sort of driving career somewhere. My goal is to eventually get into the Mint 400 and do the trophy truck stuff.

I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

When you are a kid racing karts, you want to be an F1 driver.

Obviously being third in the Formula 1 world championship would be crazy.

As a racing driver, everything you do is to get to Formula 1 and one day it stops.

I am a racing driver and I am not just some guy who has had an accident and gone back to racing because that is what he enjoys.