Racing Events 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'll watch a bit of Formula One, and motorcycle racing. I've always had an interest in all motorsports, and I still ride bikes.

[Olympics] obviously, is not the easiest thing to do, and nobody makes any money out of. Yet, for the small amount of money they could [invest] in a Formula One race, they don't want to do it.

I try to respect everybody around me, especially at speedway races.

The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.

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.

I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.

Things are pretty good for NASCAR with our TV agreements behind us and so forth. For us it's focusing on putting the best events and tightest racing that we can, making improvements on the track and investing in the amenities and fan experience.

I'm deeply involved in making the race closer and tighter and safer.

I like to watch rallies. Every time I go, I park the car where the fans park - I don't have any special tickets or permission to go - and I walk six kilometers.

I've done drag races. I've done Long Beach Grand Prix stuff. I've done NASCAR stuff. Just about anything carwise under the sun, I've done. Whether it be driving schools or racing schools, I've had a passion for it for a long time.

In this country, the most popular form of car racing is the huge multibillion dollar industry that's called stock car racing. That's what NASCAR is. That's what the SC stands for in the middle of NASCAR, Stock cars.

I went to a couple of events with my dad for sure, and I grew up in Daytona where the races ran twice a year. But I never thought - even into my twenties - that this was going to be a big enough career for me.

Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.

Suzuka is a nice circuit.

I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.

When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.

I love coming to America to race. Maybe that's because I'm a big fan of NASCAR as well.

I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.

I said I preferred Daytona to LeMans if I were to race. LeMans is a great event, don't get me wrong, but here in the U.S. is where I turned my life around, where I have a lot of friends, where I feel have my greatest following - not in terms of quantity but of quality - of racing fans.

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.

There were a lot of races I was going to win at Milwaukee, but I had mechanical problems or something would happen, ... In the early years, it just took a long time for me to win a race. I got in somebody's oil one time and got in the wall, had a clutch go out once. . . so when I finally won one, it was a long time coming.

I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines].

When someone tells me they've never been to a race, I tell them that the first one they should go to is Bristol, Tennesee. The shape of the track, the energy, and excitement under the lights is similar to what you might get at a stick-and-ball game in college football or the NFL.

We're trying to make sure it goes up. Expand NASCAR, expand our fan base.