Racing Aspirations Quotes

When you do everything you can to be an F1 driver and suddenly it stops, it's not painful but it's definitely not something you were looking for.

My whole life is about racing, and of course everybody wants to do the same with your son. Being a father and doing motor racing with him goes hand in hand.

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.

Reaching F1 was always the ultimate goal, I suppose, ever since driving a go-kart my father had bought me for my fifth birthday.

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

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

I can prove my worth and hopefully get a drive in LMP1 with a constructor in the future.

I thought I would be a go-kart mechanic - not an F1 driver

I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.

I was fascinated by racing as a kid, but no way would I have thought I'd make it into Formula One from here, from being from Perth, racing on little local go-kart tracks, you know.

When I said I wanted to get back racing my dream was to be an F1 driver. I didn't know how realistic that was going to be until I'd driven again.

I started racing go karts when I was six. I just loved everything about racing. I was raised in a racing family. And I always wanted to race for a living at the highest level I could.

The fact of the matter is that I'm never going to be Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Chase Elliott. You're not going to have that connection, the hardcore roots with the fans.

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.