F1 Quotes

Hampus Andersson · Jan 14, 2013

Yes before you even ask, i am bored. Still some way until F1 season starts

Ok so the name of the game is simply to post an F1 quote, doesn´t matter who said it as long as it´s F1 related in some ways.

I´ll go first, seeing as i´m a bit of an Hamilton aficionado i´ll start with this,

“As far as I can see from the outside Lewis is always in attack mode,” he said. “It’s funny sometimes behind a safety car [in the rain] you hear all the drivers saying ‘No way, I cannot see anything’. And then you get Lewis and he is saying ‘No, no. Let’s go for it’. And for a driver to have this attitude is a great thing.”

- Stefano Domenicali

Only rule is you can´t post more then one and you have to wait until someone else posts before you can post again.
Maybe we can find some great quotes from the history of Formula One.

Kennett Ylitalo · Jan 14, 2013

I'll get this one out of the way, since it was bound to appear anyway soon..

Kimi Räikkönen said:
I know what i'm doing!

Shane Butler · Jan 14, 2013

Hampus Andersson said:
Yes before you even ask, i am bored. Still some way until F1 season starts

Same here. I've got loads of quotes by the way, but I'll say more obscure one's

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - "Oh yeah I'm fine, I'm on top of this" - But I was completely lost.

- Sebastian Vettel

Jordi Casademunt · Jan 14, 2013

Not very obscure, but for some reason I love it

It's got some poke. Not a bad old tool.

-Graham Hill

Bram Hengeveld · Jan 14, 2013

Leave me alone

- Kimi R.

Bram Hengeveld · Jan 14, 2013

Omnomnomnomnom gravel!!!!

- Jos V.

Johnny Russian · Jan 14, 2013

"When you lead, you have to like put a double...er, er uuhh concentration because you know...you just have to"

- Mika Hakkinen

Hampus Andersson · Jan 14, 2013

"F1 won't change me" (Jenson Button, just weeks before dumping his girlfriend of five years and buying a Ferrari)

Kartik Sri Harsha · Jan 15, 2013

"The chequered flag is really just a stupid wooden stick and a piece of cloth. It's a small thing, but it means so much when you cross the line" - Sebastian Vettel

Johnny Russian · Jan 15, 2013

more Mika Hakkinen:

Interviewer: Mika, the perfect lights to flag victory. It looked very easy, was it?

Hakkinen: Oh yeah it was so easy you can't believe it.

[long pause, silence]

Hakkinen: No it wasn't

Kartik Sri Harsha · Jan 15, 2013

What I do in my private life doesn't make me drive any slower- Kimi Raikkonen

Hampus Andersson · Jan 15, 2013

-"Break a leg" (Grid Girl at 1999 British GP offering some 'advice' to Michael Schumacer pre-race. A few hours later Michael was in a hospital and his leg was in plaster, following an early race shunt...Probably the biggest irony in F1 in the recent years

Shane Butler · Jan 15, 2013

Jim Clark came through at the end of the first lap of the race so far ahead that we in the pits were convinced that the rest of the field must have been wiped out in an accident.

- Eddie Dennis

Johnny Russian · Jan 15, 2013

surprised no-one has mentioned a Murray Walker quote yet:

Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding a bit rough?"

Hampus Andersson · Jan 15, 2013

"With Senna,I learned how things should be done...With Mansell I learned how things mustn't be done.

- Mika Hakkinen ´95

Kennett Ylitalo · Jan 16, 2013

We had our own Murray Walker, Matti Kyllönen.. Ours just knew very little about.. well anything, really so.. Watching F1 in the late 90's was something else. I have to translate..

Kyllönen:"oh no, there's smoke coming from those nozzles at the back of JJs (Jyrki Järvilehto) car!"
"Keke Rosberg: "Those nozzles are know in the profession as exhaust pipes..."

There's tons more but one quote per post

Johnny Russian · Jan 16, 2013

re: Hampus' post (RD is not letting me quote it, for some reason. maybe you can't quote a quote?): haha ouch for Mansell! old Nige was a really good driver though.