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[Peterson]

Hi!

So many things have been said about racing by so many intelligent (or not..) men.

Wich one is your favourite?
Mine used to be (i dont know who said it..

"I remember when sex was safe and motorracing was dangerous...."

But after yesterday at Monza i dont know. Maybe too many people really believed it wasn´t anymore..

So please, give me som new good ones.

[The Kanisteri]

Schumacher about Coulthard at Spa 1998:
"He tried to kill me!" [p][Edited by The Kanisteri on 09-19-2000]

[Lutz]

Damon Hill after being asked how often he has sex:
"Hopefully just as often as my wife..."

[Zawed]

"A lot of drivers try to make it sound like a spiritual thing. But the basic truth is you get a great big buzz out of driving a racing car very quickly"

Damon Hill

[Alfisti]

"Pause" - MH

[Agi]

Anything silly that comes out of Murray's mouth!! Too many to mention!

[westendorf]

An old Italian GP driver said when standing next to a stack of modern race slicks "In my day the drivers were fat and the tires skinny" Ciao, GFW

[MediocreDriversWinWCs]

Peterson ,
The individual responsible for the quote you refer to is Jackie Stewart . My personal favourite (although why is a long story) is "Winning the World Championship means nothing" by Juan Fangio , and he ought to have known - he won more than anyone else!

[BuzzingHornet]

"It IS flat" JV to a marshall after scattering his Williams over a wide area at Eau Rouge in 1998

[Sean L]

During the quals for Monza 2000 I'm sure I heard Murray utter: "...and there goes Trulli into the Barichello" -instead of saying "...the Parabolica".

Or maybe he was just predicting what would happed on race day ;)

[mtl'78]

"If I had been give three wishes in life, the first would have been to be in motor racing, the second, to race in Formula 1, and the third, to drive for Ferrari." -Gilles Villeneuve



[p][Edited by mtl'78 on 09-11-2000]

[Hoosier Tifosi]

I hope you'll excuse the non-F1 nature of my picks ;)

Mike Zizzo once again jokingly reminded Robby Gordon of his "PR probation." Gordon responded in the manner which everyone in the room expected. "Well ****, at least I didn’t say ****."

"I’ve heard some drivers say we’re going too fast at Charlotte, going too fast [at Daytona] – get the hell home! If you’re not a race car driver, not a racer, stay home. Don’t come here and grumble about you’re going too fast. Stay the hell home! Get out of the race car if you’ve got feathers on your legs or on your ass. Get out. Put the damn kerosene rags around your ankles so the damn piss-ants won’t climb up there and eat that candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt

and,

"Racing is like sex. All guys think they’re pretty good at it ... and you’re not." - Jay Leno

[Peterson]

The NASCAR ones are great, just pretend Mika or Michael saying something like that....

[f1sl]

"catching up is one thing passing is another" Murray Walker

[danut]

Jackie Stewart's is my favorite too. (safe sex, dangerous racing)

Here is one by Hemingway:
"There are only three true sports: motoracing, bulfighting and mountaineering. All the others are just games"

[Ray Bell]

For anecdotes, you should read Neubauer's book "Speed Was My Life." Now I think of that, and where I posted it, I should point out that the only drugs mentioned is morpheine as taken by Varzi... and his girlfriend.
Some good stories in there... some so good that they don't actually match up with history, however.

[John B]

"in my day the drivers were fat and the tires were skinny"

(unknown)

[goGoGene]

Bullfighting is stupid, strip the fighter of his weapons, and clothing, then it's a fair fight.

Mountaineering...intense stuff, done quite a bit of it, stopped the risky 5.11 stuff outdoors, would like to see my nephews and niece grow up. If that's what motorracing is like I don't think that I have what it takes (as a fat 33 year old I could climb 5.12b's, so it's not for lack of ability, just love of my life).

ggg

[Snow1]

Not so much a quote, but funny. Both James Hunt and Mike Hailwood wore a patch on their racing suits that said, "Sex, the Breakfest of Champions". Could you imagine Michael wearing that today...NOT.

[Mr Pink]

"Well thats Bollocks"

Heard from various drivers in tha Alfa Romeo Championship after the race was cancelled on Saturday at Brands Hatch...

[Ali_G]

"Could you repeat the question"

Mika Hakkinen during most post race press conferences.

Niall

[wadders]

Murray Walker at Hockenheim 2000," There will be 6 laps left at the end of the race."


Hmmmmmmmmmm Interesting murray

[tak]

Kevin Schwantz describing late braking on a 500cc Grand Prix motorcycle:
"Wide open till you see God, then brake."

Senna after a massive 180 mph crash at Paraltalda in Mexico GP practice (91?
"800 HP is not enough to take that corner in sixth"

[Nathan]

Originally posted by westendorf
An old Italian GP driver said when standing next to a stack of modern race slicks "In my day the drivers were fat and the tires skinny" Ciao, GFW

I believe it was the Pampus Bull who said that.

[dbltop]

when james hunt retired from his last grand prix at monaco he stripped the top half of his fireproofs to reveal a t-shirt that read "my girlfriend cant wrestle,but you should see her box"

[h2fan]

I'm not sure who it was, but " I was breaking so late, I was using an old guy in a black shroud, with a scythe as a marker"

Rgds,

H2FAN

[Huw Jenjin]

American reporter "And what, Graham, is so significant about the straightaway just here?"

Graham Hill: "Well....it joins this corner here, to that corner there......."

[Peterson]

The last one reminds me of an interwiev with an NHL-player (i think it was Theoren Fleury..).
After the second period the interwiever asked what they had to do to win the match. They where a couple of goals down.

"well...uuhh...guess we gotta score a couple of goals there Larry..."

A bit like Mikas one-worders, no bullshit...

[Mary]

I have two favorites, both from the same CART race!

During the 1996 CART Road America race, Robbie Gordon got out of his car, kicked the Ford blue oval on the engine cover and then proceeded to give an interview with Jon Beekhuis (CART pit reporter) dissing CART & Ford (he called the car a pig and complained about almost everything else). He'd had a decent race until the engine went bad. His car owner, Derrick Walker, made him stay out, so he started deliberately over-revving it, just to make it break sooner. (Robbie had announced that weekend that he was leaving CART to drive for Felix Sabates in NASCAR, because FORD gave Mikey better engines than they gave him and CART wasn't fair because of this. He spent 1997 in NASCAR, 1998 & 1999 in CART and is now back in NASCAR. Needless to say, they value of his career has fallen a bit.)

Anyway, right after Robbie gave his infamous 1996 Elkhart Lake interview, Bob Varsha, who was calling his second ever CART race (Paul Page was working the IRL) said, "that crackling sound you hear is of bridges being burned I'm afraid." He hit the nail on the head there. Robbie's career has never really recovered.


For CART fans here, that was the race where Christian Fittipaldi ran across the twisty back straight leading into Canada Corner crossing the race track right in front of Max Papis (going about 190mph at the time). Michael Andretti gave him a ride back to the pits after the race; Christian later said that he hung on to the car for dear life because Andretti drove it too fast (Andretti won, btw).

Andre Ribiero drove the late Greg Moore off the track on the aforementioned twisty back straight (coming out of the kink) causing Greg to do a 190 mph wheelie right across Canada Corner into a gully (Greg, a rookie that year, was not happy). Davy Jones landed on his head. My second favorite quote from this race was from Mark Blundell (talking about Ribiero who took him & Gugelmin out of the race) "the guy wants to learn how to race, he can drive but he can't race." Paul Tracy hit Parker Johnstone on the last lap causing Parker to do a "punch front, double back" flip in the car. Seriously! It flipped one way first, the back flipped in the opposite direction. Finally, it was Al Unser, Jr's., last chance to actually win a CART race. He took the white flag with the lead. His engine blew on the twisty straight and he stopped the car "within sight of the checkered flag."

That was, by far, the wildest CART race in recent years (the was even more stupid, wild action) and it was the best for quotes!

Mary

[boost]

Murray:
"Formula 1 spelt backwards is if.."

[TommyBoy]

Don't know who said it first, but

"If you haven't seen God you're not travelling fast enough"

[Finntastic]

Well these are not quotes but funny anyway...I remember seeing a BBC documentary "Season with Mclaren" and it concentrated on that famous weekend in Estoril 1993 when Mika Häkkinen drove his first race in a Mclaren (when he beet Senna in qualifying ).
Well when he was leaving the pits he said to the radio something like “10-4” (or something ...police term?) and the whole crew just exploded and Ron said :"Mika this is NOT the police radio"!
Then afterwards there was a scene where Mika was explaining his engineer something about the car handling. You should’ve seen the expression in his face while trying to look observant when he was listening to Mika who said indistinctly smiting like:"...first corner was fast...second corner not so fast, but it was ok, next corner was medium fast …etc..." and he was waving his arms like a mad man. I think they got some good info about the set-ups there ;)

[Arnaldo]

"Never wish a driver good luck; say: Into the lion's den" Kirk Douglas from the movie The Racers.

[silver]

Mika`s answer to Senna`s question how on Earth Mika had been so fast on Estoril`s fast corners.

"Balls Ayrton, balls!"