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[theholychicken]

This quote always sends a tingle up my spine

"I looked in his eyes and I thought 'I've seen this look before. And I know where I saw that look before'. And it gave me goosebumps when I remembered that look. It was Senna."
-Sergio Rinland on Raikkonen

Please do share quotes from F1 that you like

:-)

[Beamer]

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough
-- Mario Andretti

Use it quite often if someone of my staff brings out a 'everything going nice and easy' progress report.

[Chiara]

Ferrari Team Motto: Non mollare mai (never give up) aptly sums up the spirit of those in the sport I think.

[lustigson]

"Anything can happen in Formula One... and it usually does."
— Graeme Murray Walker, OBE

"When the flag drops, the bullshit stops."
— I don't know

[kar]

Michael had many inspirational quotes but this one is far and away my favourite spoken in the post Suzuka 2003 press conference:

"Here we are, we're back. We never give up, we're always there, we always fight, and I think that's one of the great strengths of the Ferrari team"

[Enkei]

Something about wet socks.

[howardt]

Mario Andretti again - he said something quite Confucius-like, along the lines of :
"It's amazing how many racing drivers still think that the brakes are for slowing the car down."

[alg7_munif]

I can't remember exactly but it is something about second place is the first loser.

Sorry Massa, not refering to you

[Tony Mandara]

Lifted this from someone else's post (Thanks murska80)

But it is a goodie!!!


"I'm really disapointing." Giancarlo Fisichella.

hahahahahhahaha

Tony.

[tidytracks]

Neither success nor failure is ever final: Ron Dennis

[Ploert]

A classic:

David Coulthard: "This is my year"

[mursuka80]

Originally posted by Tony Mandara
Lifted this from someone else's post (Thanks murska80)

But it is a goodie!!!


"I'm really disapointing." Giacarlo Fisichella.

hahahahahhahaha

Tony.

I dont know if its true or not I took it from another forum.

[Tony Mandara]

Originally posted by mursuka80


I dont know if its true or not I took it from another forum.

Well... Fisi's English in his first couple of years was pretty poor, so it's entirely possible!!!!!



Tony.

P>.S :- I used to work with a Polish girl who walked in one day and proudly announced to everyone how she was "Very Boring"!!!!


P.P.S :- Ploert. DC never actually said that, I believe it was a headline for the cover story in a racing mag.

[metz]

Originally posted by lustigson
"When the flag drops, the bullshit stops."
— I don't know

I'm not sure if he's the original but Paul Newman used it all the time.

Hemingway - "Bullfighting and racing are the only true sports. Everything else is just a game."

[Sabre1977]

Racing, competing, it's in my blood, it's part of me it's part of my life and it stands before anything else

Ayrton Senna

[rolf123]

Here are some good ones I selected and saved earlier for my website:

MurrayWalker: He's obviously gone in for a wheel change. I say obviously because I can't see it.

MurrayWalker: With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.

MurrayWalker: Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?

JeanAlesi: You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1.

JeanAlesi: That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

AlainProst: I would prefer to finish sixth rather than lead and then crash or retire. I have always wanted to
finish to get the experience.

AlainProst: Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

AlainProst: When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

AlainProst: Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have
pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

AlainProst: People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

AlainProst: You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

AyrtonSenna: And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

AyrtonSenna: And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

AyrtonSenna: I drove slowly back to the pits and I didn't want to go out any more that day. It frightened me because I was well beyond my conscious understanding. It happens rarely but I keep these experiences very
much alive inside me because it is something that is important for self-preservation.

AyrtonSenna: It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.

AyrtonSenna: Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

AyrtonSenna: Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

AyrtonSenna: Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

AyrtonSenna: When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

MichaelSchumacher: I will do everything I can to bring the Number One to Ferrari. The whole team and all the fans deserve it.

MichaelSchumacher: In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

NigelMansell: But I like being the underdog. I always was in my Formula 1 career and I will be again at Kyalami.

NigelMansell: Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

Fangio: I am terribly sorry I am unable to speak English. Two years ago, I decided to study it. Then I thought maybe it's too much work for one so old.

Fangio: I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

EnzoFerrari: Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

EnzoFerrari: As bend followed bend, I discovered his secret. Nuvolari entered the bend somewhat earlier than my driver's instinct would have told me to.

[Nonesuch]

Most will have heard or read about the famous quote from the 1971 movie Le Mans: "When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting."

However, the bit before it is perhaps even better:

Lisa: "When people risk their lives, shouldn't it be for something very important?"
Michael: "Well, it better be."
Lisa: "But what is so important about driving faster than anyone else?"
Michael: "Lotta people go through life doing things badly. Racing's important to men who do it well."

It's easily applied to other things as well.

[Tony Mandara]

Olav Mol. Dutch race comentator.

"Tiago Monteiro oversteers and crashes into the back of Tiago Montiero's car" TeeHee!

Tony.

[Tony Mandara]

"You couldn't insert a cigarette paper btween those two cars!!!!"


Murray Walker proves that he can't run that fast after all!


Tony.

[Sabre1977]

The great Murray Walker:

Well there’s a surprise!..

‘He’s obviously gone in for a wheel change. I say obviously because I can’t see it.’

‘There’s nothing wrong with the car except it’s on fire.’

‘I imagine the conditions in those cars are totally unimaginable.’

‘It’s raining and the track is wet.’

‘The gap between the two cars is 0.9 seconds– that’s less than a second!’

‘He’s in front of everyone in this race except for the two in front of him.’

‘Either that car is stationary or it’s on the move!’

‘With half the race gone there is half the race still to go.’

‘Tambay’s hopes, which were previously nil, are now absolutely zero.’

‘You can’t see the digital clock because there isn't one.’

‘And now Laffite is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffite!’

‘There’s no doubt in my mind that if the race had lasted for 46 laps instead of 45 it would have been a McLaren first and second– but it didn’t so it wasn’t.’

‘We’re now on the 73rd lap and the next one will be the 74th.’

‘Keith Ripp’s in trouble– real trouble!’ ( A masterpiece of understatement– Keith’s mini was rolling end over end, disintegrating as it did so!)

‘This is an interesting circuit because it has inclines and not just up, but down as well.’

Murray: ‘And there are flames coming from the back of Prost’s car as he enters the swimming pool!’

James Hunt: ‘Well that should put them out them!’ (Prost was entering Monaco’s pool section).

‘Into lap 53, the penultimate last lap but one.’



Maybe he should rephrase that!...

‘Do my eyes deceive me or is Senna’s car sounding a bit rough?’

‘I cant imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some kind of a grip problem.’

‘Speaking from memory I can’t remember how many points Prost has.’

‘Alain Prost is in a very commanding second place.’

‘What a fabulous race– Barry Sheene’s riding his Suzuki like he’s married to it!’

‘Only ten of the drivers who started this race are left and I make no apologies for their absence but I’m sorry they’re not here.’ (Two great mistake in one sentence!)

‘Prost can see Mansell in his earphones!’

‘I’ve just stopped my startwatch.’

‘And we’ve had five races so far this year– Brazil, Argentina, Imola, Schumacher and Monaco.’

‘A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet, as he is now know, and always has been.’

‘The first four cars are both on the same tyres.’

‘And the first five places are filled by five different cars.’

‘That was exactly the same place where Senna overtook Nannini that he didn’t overtake Prost.’

‘As you look at the first four the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.’

‘And this is the third placed car about to lap the second placed car.’

‘Here’s Giacomelli, driving like the veteran he is not.’

‘The battle is well and truly on if it wasn’t before- and it most certainly was!’

‘Two laps to go, then the action will begin. Unless this is the action, which it is!’

‘And there is a dry line emerging in the tunnel!’



Appearances can be deceptive…

‘Schumacher’s car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind him– which is identical!’

‘And it’s Mansell, Mansell, Mansell, Nigel Mansell!’ (It was Prost in an identical Ferrari!)

Murray: ‘There’s a fiery glow coming from the back of that Ferrari.’

James Hunt: ‘No, Murray, that’s his rear safety light!’

‘Damon Hill is coming into the pit lane, yes it’s Damon Hill coming into the Williams pit, and Damon Hill is in the pit– no, it’s Schumacher!’

Murray: ‘Bernie, it’s some 17 years since you bought McLaren. You’ve had some good times and bad times. What do you remember best?’

Bernie Ecclestone: ‘Well Murray I don’t remember buying McLaren!’ (He bough Brabham).

‘Piet Dam wins as he looks through a completely clear windscreen which is, of course, the advantage of being in front.’ (As soon as the words left his mouth Dam drive straight into a grass bank!)

‘For real action watch this!’ (The word left his mouth and Malcolm Wilson flipped his car!)

‘Let’s watch this typical Formula Ford start.’ (It was anything but! All the cars drive into one another!)

‘It is clear at this stage of the race that Nigel Mansell is not going to make a pit stop.’ (Mansell immediately took to the pit lane for his pit stop!)

‘Here comes the gallant little Frenchman Alain Prost, almost home for his sixth Grand Prix win– nothing can stop him now!’ (He hit a wet patch, spun into the barrier, lost a wheel and retired!)



We can’t believe he said that!...

‘It’s a sad ending, albeit a happy one, here at Montreal for today’s Grand Prix.’

‘The young Ralf Schumacher has been upstaged by teenager Button, who is 20.’

‘Andrea de Cesaris, the man who has won more Grands Prix than anyone without actually winning one!’ (He was supposed to say competed in more Grands Prix!)



Magical Murray Moments…

‘Unless I’m very much mistaken…’

‘I am very much mistaken!’

‘GO! GO! GO!’

‘The atmosphere is so tense that you could cut it with a cricket stump!’

‘And now the boot is on the other Schumacher.’

‘Anything can happen in Formula One– and it usually does!’

‘If Mika Hakkinen’s going to do well he needs to pull his great big woolly Finnish socks up!’

‘IF– that’s F1 spelt backwards.’

‘There is only a second between them. “ONE”. That’s how long a second is!’

‘And now excuse me while I interrupt myself!’

‘He’s shedding buckets of adrenalin in that car.’

‘And I’ve got to stop talking now because I’ve got a lump in my throat.’

[Smudger]

Paul Newman, Le Mans

"**** happens. Today it happened to you. There's no guarantee it won't happen again tomorrow"

[Gareth]

The race finishes with the chequered flag. We finished in the front and we have to be very proud about that and unfortunately we missed one point but that's racing. We need to be proud of our job and our race and our championship and that's why I am here. I know how to win and I know how to lose. It is one more day of my life and we are going to learn a lot from this day.

It's tough to pick a quote from Massa from that press conference. The whole thing was wonderful, classy, emotional stuff. But if forced to pick a section, I think that bit would be my favourite.

Massa

[inaki]

Originally posted by HSJ (always justifying Kimi Raikkonen when he was at McLaren)

"IMO, objectively , McLaren has been the worst car on the grid for the past decade or so."

"Mac are actually pretty bad at this [gearbox] at the moment, probably around 8th with only Minardi and Jordan behind...."
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'It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear to be a fool than to open it and leave no doubt."

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During Bahrein GP 2005.

Louise Goodman ITV-F1: “Nick, no champagne for you this weekend.”
Nick Heidfeld : “There's no champagne here anyway.”

You can't beat the Germans on logic.

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"I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability..."
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"I want to start a new stage in my career with Ron Dennis' team, and I think next year the best car will be painted in gray."
Fernando Alonso - Renault driver in 2006, when everybody was saying than Macca's were a piece of **** during a disappointing season.
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Before Brazil GP 2006 at Interlagos:

Martin Brundle: "Kimi, you missed the presentation by Pele"
Kimi's answer: "I was having a ****"
Martin: "Ok, thanks for that. yeah..so you have a nice light car on the grid then"

[Henri Greuter]

"I am so sad he is gone but I am so glad he was here."

Jacques Laffite after the death of Gilles Villeneuve.

[Henri Greuter]

I haven't found the exact quote but it was like this:

"Arguments should not be fought out on the track but be talked about."

Said by Senna, less than a month before Suzuka 1990.


Henri

[Seebar]

Originally posted by lustigson


"When the flag drops, the bullshit stops."
— I don't know

Always thought Ken Tyrrell said it first.



And one which a couple of friends and I reenact from time to time, from the days when Peter Baert and Philip (sp?) Verellen did the commentating for Flemish F1:

(very excited PB) "Philip, Philip, a problem for Schumacher!!!"
(deadpan PV) "Er, no Peter, that's a slow-motion replay."

[mursuka80]

According to our newspapers Felipe and Rubens sang in the brazil party: "Schumacher,a homo" so if thats true its a classic

[potmotr]

"Second is the first loser." Ron Dennis

[mursuka80]

Originally posted by potmotr
"Second is the first loser." Ron Dennis

That was Senna.

[potmotr]

Originally posted by mursuka80


That was Senna.

I'm sure I've heard Ron Dennis say it. Perhaps he taught Senna.

[mursuka80]

Originally posted by potmotr


I'm sure I've heard Ron Dennis say it. Perhaps he taught Senna.

I have heard this from Sir Moss:"show me a man who wants to be second and i show you a loser"

[potmotr]

Originally posted by mursuka80


I have heard this from Sir Moss:"show me a man who wants to be second and i show you a loser"

A great quote, from poor old Sir Stirling who never managed to be first in a championship.

[rolf123]

This is why there should be more points for a win. Race winning is the essence of racing.

[RodrigoL]

"You focking idiot, joo broke my focking head!"
--Juan Hillbilly Montoya

Gives me the strength to stand up to anyone

[F1Champion]

Fangio's comment about striving to be the best but never thinking you are is quite motivation.

Plus there are heaps of Schumacher comments about never giving up that I like.

[equality]

- spying and taking spypics in teams clothes isnt spying - ron dennis, when his team was caught pants down making photographs of other cars in parc ferme.


dennis, with tears in his eyes post monaco 2007 - ive never employed team orders. The last time i gave a team order was at melbourne 1998 -

[stevewf1]

"It's not when you put the brakes on, it's when you take them off" - Jackie Stewart

[alg7_munif]

"Gimme no.1 or else I will go to the FIA"

[equality]

- youre too f****** slow!!! - dc to the mclaren pitwal silverstone 2001

[stevewf1]

"Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug" - Price Cobb at an IMSA race in the 80s (although he may have been quoting someone else)...

Edit: Not an F1 quote, but...

[metz]

Originally posted by RodrigoL
"You focking idiot, joo broke my focking head!"
--Juan Hillbilly Montoya

Yes, I remember.

And then there was "What is a photocopier?"

[as65p]

Originally posted by alg7_munif
"Gimme no.1 or else I will go to the FIA"

Hmm, let me guess...

Hamilton in Monaco 2007?



My favourite quote is from the back of the 1st edition of Richard Williams "The death of Ayrton Senna".

In Imola '93 Senna had afterwards confronted D.Hill to complain about some waving from Damon after the start. Later Ayrton was reminded by a journo that he himself had done similar things before.

The answer: "Yes, but I'm Senna."

And yes, I'm fully aware that for many people that quote summarizes why they can't stand him. I think it's just brilliant.

;)

[metz]

Originally posted by as65p
The answer: "Yes, but I'm Senna."

And yes, I'm fully aware that for many people that quote summarizes why they can't stand him. I think it's just brilliant.

;)

Funny how the source makes a difference.

Would you feel the same way if you heard; "Yes, but I'm Schumacher."

[equality]

I dont remember all of them anymore but most post race press conferences with senna where classics. He could rant and fume just about anything that got in his way. That said i could also die of laughter over mansells drama shows. Boy, F1 was great in those days.

[mursuka80]

Originally posted by as65p


Hmm, let me guess...

Hamilton in Monaco 2007?



My favourite quote is from the back of the 1st edition of Richard Williams "The death of Ayrton Senna".

In Imola '93 Senna had afterwards confronted D.Hill to complain about some waving from Damon after the start. Later Ayrton was reminded by a journo that he himself had done similar things before.

The answer: "Yes, but I'm Senna."

And yes, I'm fully aware that for many people that quote summarizes why they can't stand him. I think it's just brilliant.

;)

You have to teach the noobs some respect Senna was the benchmark for EGO.

[as65p]

Originally posted by metz

Funny how the source makes a difference.

Would you feel the same way if you heard; "Yes, but I'm Schumacher."

No, because it's a completely different quote (notice the last word, it makes all the difference!)

Now if MS had said "I'm Senna"... that would have been something else again.

;)

[as65p]

Originally posted by mursuka80


You have to teach the noobs some respect Senna was the benchmark for EGO.

Arrogance, like everything else, has to be demonstrated perfectly to impress.

Way to go for todays aspirants...

;)

[metz]

Originally posted by as65p
Now if MS had said "I'm Senna"... that would have been something else again.

;)

Now, that would have been Hamilton.;)

[Chicken McNuggets]

I love the Ron Dennis quote that was mentioned earlier on success and failure. I hadn't read of that one before.

This is an F1 quote I have long had on another internet account of mine.

"Some people believe they've got to think of themselves as the best to succeed. I never thought that. I was always thinking I wasn't going to win. I thought that everyone else was better than me." - Sir Jackie Stewart

[giacomo]

"I don't want any pit signals. I always go as fast as I can anyway, so it's no good signalling me to go faster because I can't. And it's no good signalling me to go slower because I won't."
Raymond Sommer

"Push, push, push!"
Modern pit radio standard phrase.