Racing Drivers Quotes

A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

I can't remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can't remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That's when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

Nobody wants to lose Ferrari. And I don't think Ferrari can afford to lose Formula One.

I've driven for A. J. Foyt, now the Andrettis, and my NASCAR team is Richard Childress Racing, which is one of the greats in that sport.

As has been the case with Sebastian Vettel, Daniil Kvyat, Daniel Ricciardo, Max Verstappen, we're always going to draw upon the talent pool we have.

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

Just competing in the Brazilian GP is a dream for all Brazilian racing drivers. I remember sitting in the grandstands when I was a kid, watching Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet and even Rubens Barrichello. After that, to race there in Formula One is a feeling that is hard to explain.

Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the stadium. They are supposed to be zany, nomadic soldiers of fortune who are involved in wild endeavors during every waking moment.

F1 needs Ferrari much more than Ferrari needs F1.

As racing drivers, you always have those moments that it gets a bit heated, but then you start from zero again.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

Ferrari always tries to get the best possible drivers, and my fellow team members have always been highly promising people.

Ayrton and I shared a lot of incredible races, where he was first and I was second and vice-versa. I think it's fair to say I am the only racer in Grand Prix history who wasn't intimidated by him, and I think that was great for the fans - it did make us have a few close calls, though!

Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness.

Times change, things move. F1 used to have customer cars years ago. You could buy a car from March or from Ferrari and go racing.

The Monaco Grand Prix is in May right around the time of Cannes.

I was a big Damon Hill fan, and I loved Michael Schumacher.

Lots of other drivers like cycling, but I'm not so keen. I have some really cool bikes, but I'm just not in love with it like Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.

To the general public, it's the nature of the sport that it's a car-dominant sport.

There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it.

People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together.

After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is

I was always interested in maybe being in Formula E as I said many times when I was still racing in F1.

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

A lot of the riders end up in Monaco, but I don't need to be there for the tax purposes because I'm from the Isle of Man.