Memorable Quotes

"When I see something really horrible, I put my foot down...hard! Because I know...that everyone else...is lifting his." - Yves Montand as Jean Pierre Sarti from John Frankenheimer's classic 1966 film Grand Prix

"Your driver will never win the championship until he learns not to hit people on the track!" - James Hunt to Colin Chapman on Mario Andretti Zandvoort 1977

"Hunt says you don't pass on the outside in Grand Prix racing - silly jerk! James Hunt, he's champion of the world, right? The problem is he thinks he's king of the god-damn world as well!" - Mario Andretti 1977

"Yeah, I'm alright, but my car is fucked!" - Stefan Johansson, following a Formula Ford start line pile up at Brands Hatch, circa 1979

"Now I've beaten these hillbillies, I'm gonna take on those European fags." - allegedly spoken by A.J. Foyt

"The car in front is absolutely unique, except for the one behind which is identical!" - Murray Walker; according to him, his personal favourite Murrayism

"One of the great things in motor racing is concentration. When I want to go faster I don't drive any faster, I just concentrate harder." - Jim Clark

"Well, it's got some poke!" - Graham Hill following his first drive in the Lotus 49

"To hell with safety. All I want to do is race." - James Hunt to Niki Lauda, Mosport 1976

"It gave you amazing satisfaction, but anyone who says he loved it is either a liar or he wasn't going fast enough." - Jackie Stewart comments on the Nurbürgring

"There are too many old drivers in this sport. A few years ago a couple of drivers a year got killed and no one took any notice. It was a sort of natural culling." - Bernie Ecclestone, 1993

"About as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle." - Alan Jones, 1986, describing the Lola F1 car

"A pretty awful car. I didn't talk to it and it didn't talk back to me" - Mario Andretti describing the March 701

"The bloody car's useless. It's just a heap of shit!" - Chirs Amon's thoughts on the March 701

"An unpredictable handful which was tiring to drive and could never be turned into any semblance of consistently competitive form." - Jackie Stewart on the March 701

"It wasn't a very good car at all. It was too heavy - it was like a truck." - Ken Tyrrell, March 701

"Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck." - James Hunt describes his F1 debut, Monaco 1973

"It is the best accident I've had in Formula 1 so far." - Jacques Villeneuve describes his spectacular shunt at Eau Rouge at Spa, 1998

"At Monza I was rigid with fear. Terrified. Diarrhea. Heart pounding. Throwing up." - Niki Lauda on his return to F1 following the accident at Nurburgring, 1976

"It was a great race. No one got killed." - Juan Manuel Fangio 1958 Italian Grand Prix

"One minute I was racing and enjoying it, the next I was walking away from a ghastly mess. I didn't want to see a racing car again." - Jim Clark 1961 Italian Grand Prix at Monza

"He is a genuine speed freak and he drives with enormous aggression and flair, but he seems unable to combine that with common sense." - James Hunt 1981 on Gilles Villeneuve

"Racing is life; anything that happens before or after is just waiting." - Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in the film LeMans, 1971

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