F1 Quotes

[Ketnix]

“The first sign that there might be specific favoritism towards Mika came in Melbourne 1996,I was with my race engineer and Mika was chatting to his. The door opened and Ron walked in. I stood up to shake his hand and Ron ignored me.
Instead he strode over to sit next to Mika and said, ‘What’s the plan (for the race), guys?’ We all listened to Mika’s plans and then Ron said, ‘Okay, what are they doing?’ Here was my team principal talking about me as if I was a rival team. ‘They’ is not a word you use in a team situation, surely? At that exact moment, I think the naivety, the innocence of my youth, shattered around me,”

David Coulthard - excerpt from 'It Is What It Is'.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

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!


- Nikki Lauda at the end of '97 season

 

[Kartik Sri Harsha]

The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately not as good as someone who is stimulated by passion and internal will - Sebastian Vettel

 

[Daniel Ciglar]

Michael Schumacher being interviewed in a pre-season-talkshow with the BBC on a car accident he has been involved in a few days before the start of the 1998 season:

M. Brundle: Michael, what exactly happened?

Schumacher: The taxi driver I've crashed into irritated me because he looked like Damon Hill... and the blonde lady at the back looked like Jacques Villeneuve.

 

[Shane Butler]

"You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are."

- Juan Manuel Fangio

 

[Dux]

I wanted to start an thread for "F1 quotes collection" but there is already one, in another concept
Pity no one posted since 6th Feb 2013 ....

One from me...

"F1 was always like 'something from James Bond'"

- Guillaume 'Rocky' Rocquelin