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" Money makes the world go around and in Formula One it greases the
wheels too."
-Roger Horton
"I flew on concorde recently-an impressive old shtbox.But I would like
to go up in a space
shuttle, for a quick lap around the world"
~Nikki Lauda
Malaysian Preview 12 Oct 1999
"Life is strange, but F1 is simply crazy."
Eddie Irvine following his disastrous performance in the European Grand
Prix at the Nurburgring 99
"I never think I can hurt myself-not seriously. If you believe it can happen to you, how can you do this job? If you're never over eight-tenths, or whatever, because you're thinking about a shunt, you are not going as quick as you can . And if you re not doing that you 're not a racing driver.Some guys, in formula1... well to me, they're not racing drivers. They drive racing cars, thats all. They're doing half a job. And in that case, I wonder why they do it at all..."
" Sometimes Grand Prix drivers look absolutely awesome, on other
days they look like they couldn't drive sheep, and its a sheep day today
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~Martin Brundle
"Aerodynamics is for those who cannot
manufacture good engines."
-Enzo Ferrari
... in '59 I ran out of brakes four times -- and I don't mean they didn't work very well, I mean I had none. Like the main oil line had sheared. You know, so that oil, you know, when you put your foot on the floor, the oil just went squirting out into the atmosphere. I'd always believed that Colin was close to genius in his design ability and everything, if he could just get over this failing of his of making things too bloody light. I mean, Colin's idea of a Grand Prix car was it should win the race and, as it crossed the finishing line, it should collapse in a heap of bits. If it didn't do that, it was built too strongly.
"Spa is a good race I would have enjoyed to be in myself. Pure skill. I would like to be racing now. It is the safest and best paid time to be racing . If I lived in America I could sue my mother for having me too early- for the loss of income!"
"...Micheal Schumacher deserved the driver's championship (in 97). To
be honest, I didnt want to keep my record as the last Ferrari world champion;
it's never done me any good!"
-Jody Scheckter(click for pic)
"Yes its been difficult, but its not a question of how many races you
win , whether you scored 3 points or 4 at this or that race.The real question
is(at the end of season) are you quickes, or not? If you are not quickest,
you have a hell of a lot of work to do. But if you are quickest, you still
have a lot of work.But now we are getting very close to being the quickest."
Mika Hakkinen(97 end)
``I'd rather not go on and perform so badly. I'd rather not have that.
If you believe in reading the signals, they have basically been that I've
got to stop''
~Damon Hill before he quit(99 season)
"When I looked at the schumacher vs Villeneuve contest, for example
I can see only Schumacher. If you put them both in the same type of F1
car, Micheal would win all the races..Dont Missunderstand me .Jacques is
very good,But I would rank him in with the likes of Mika Hakkinen,Dmon
Hill and Fischella,equal at the head of the second group."
-Alan Head
"He(Aryton Senna) would be driving a car which on paper, was a second
a lap slower than the opposition. And you knew at that moment, that you
could not beat the opposition .Ninety nine percent of the drivers would
accept this and say: 'well next week we will have a new engine and we will
be there.' "For Aryton of course , it was'nt like that at all He would
think I have to be quickest, and he would do it. He was'nt dreaming.
He just did it."
-Gerhard Berger on Aryton Senna
"Racing is a lot easier. It was like a holiday compared with the running
of the airline.In racing you would train, drive upto 16 races, do a bit
of PR. Now I am up every morning at 6.30 am in work by 8am, running a business
with 1650 employees and 16 planes. If I had a choice I would have continued
racing until I was 80.Its easier and now better paid."
~Nikki Lauda on managing his airline
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~Murray Walker(visit the murray walker quotes page)
"It is head and not the foot that is instrumental in any one driver's
achievement.Few consider that"
~Peter Sauber
"For most people F1 is history until Melbourne next march.For the teams,
Its different. Competition never stops. We're aldready busy getting to
know our new drivers and new personnel,cementing oir sponsership deals
in place and getting ready to build our new cars by christmas"
Harvey Posetlethwaite
"I dont agree that technology detracts from the skill of the driver.
In fact, the more tech you have on a car, the busier the driver is. Its
always those who cant quite cope with technology who want to see it banned."
~Ron Dennis
"I hope we don’t see a repeat of Jerez, people aren’t the best of friends
when they are trying to beat each other. However, they’re out there to
compete with each other not to make love. An element of rivalry is expected."
~Frank Williams at the start of the 98 season about Villeneuve and
Schumacher
"The quality of an F1 engine is not only measured by the number of horsepower
it produces. One must consider the nature of the power curve, the weight
and size and rigidity of the engine and its centre of gravity. An engine
plays a part in a chassis's stability. Thus the partnership between chassis
and motor engineers really is a fundamental element in F1."
~Frederic Saint-Geours(Peugeot boss)
Schumacher remains the most complete driver in F1 today. Apart from the dazzling car control, Michael rules his Italian team with a psychological rod of iron, taking as much responsibility for technical decisions as he does for capitalizing on them during the race. . . . Jackie Stewart believes that the man who eventually eclipses Schumacher is not yet even in F1. He could be right.
"The difference between the rivalry between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost
and mine with Michael is that I was never held in esteem by Michael,''
~Damon Hill on M Schumacher
" The first time I came here, there was a crack in the tarmac,
and there was a little plant growing out of it, and I said to myself, 'Tazio
Nuvelari could well have driven over the great-grandfather of this plant',
and I pulled it out, and I've got it pressed in a Monza yearbook at home!"
~MURRAY WALKER
" I'm er I'm lost for words on that particular anecdote there
Murray!"
~MARTIN BRUNDLE :-)
Villeneuve is a bundle of contradictions. Hugely talented, there are
times when he seems to have cultivated the role of F1's most conspicuous
dissident, a blond-tinted, high-grunge enfant terrible who marches to his
own beat, no matter whether it makes his team uneasy or leaves him vulnerable
to sanctions from officialdom.
~Autocourse 97-98 - Alan Henry
"Nürburgring
was my favourite track. I fell totally in love with it and I believe that
on that day in 1957 I finally managed to master it. It was as if I had
screwed all the secrets out of it and got to know it once and for all.
. . For two days I couldn't sleep, still making those leaps in the dark
on those curves where I had never before had the courage to push things
so far."
~Juan Manuel Fangio
"If I have achieved what I have, and managed
to do everything I did, it is largely due to having had the chance to grow
up well in a family environment, living decently with no economic problems,
and being guided towards the right road at decisive points in my life."
~Aryton Senna
