What Is Your Favorite Racing Quote?
Spend any amount of time, in any corner of the car scene, and you’re bound to discuss motorsports at some point. And one of the first conversation starters might be a quote from a famous person associated with the sport. Or maybe an overtly dramatic fictionalization of racing?
Cheesy though it might be, this famous quote from The Fast And The Furious likely inspired countless enthusiasts of a certain era, as it has the right combination of drama, reality, and passion.
So the question is now in your court: Tell us your favorite quote in racing. Are you a Dale Earnhardt “Second place is just the first loser,” or an Ayrton Senna’s “Going for gap“? Perhaps you take quotes from automotive manufacturing moguls, like Enzo Ferrari’s “Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines” or Henry Ford when he said, “Auto racing began five minutes after the second car was built.”
No matter who said it, we want to know your favorite racing quote in the comments section below!
“Second place is the first loser” thought it was Johnny Rutherford at Indy
During a radio interview, mid 70s, while racing at Riverside, Richard Petty was asked the best place to pass on this track. “Any place you can” was his answer. And further in the interview, the comment was made on Petty’s 200+ wins, and was asked, “What is your secret?” Petty answered, “Aw, I don’t know, I just stand on it and turn left”.
On the density of air: at 250 MPH it’s like driving through a fruitcake. Koenigsegg
On the density of air: at 250 MPH it’s like driving through a fruitcake. Koenigsegg
What I used to say before terrifying a new passenger in my T-bucket: “You’re never more alive than when you’re on the brink of death. Let’s live a little!”. -Tinkerah
There’s nothing stock about a stock car. Robert Duvall in Days of Thunder
“Horsepower = how fast you hit the wall..
Torque = how much of the wall you take with you.”
“You buy the engine I will give you the car for free”
Enzo Ferrari
Yo
I live my life a 1/4 mile at a time.
Unknown
“Chrome don’t get you home.”
Every real racer, 😆
Will not allow me to edit not certain where the Yo came in.
Downhill, off camber corner = OH Shit!!
Rally book instructions.
You only turn in early when you go to bed.
Me
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue but it has its curious rewards.
James Thurber
Add lightness (Chapman?)
How many rpm u use? All of them!
It’s more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow!
“This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner, but many have been lost there.” – Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
The longer you wait, the slower you get— Stroker Ace aka Bill Neeley
A journalist was interviewing Alberto Ascari and asked him why he was faster than everyone else. Ascari’s reply: “More gas, less brakes”
There are way way too many to mention. If I have to pick just one…. Tim Wilkerson was being grilled on what it would take to get into the top ten and. He just kinda shook his head and said – ” We’re drag racing not curing cancer” – which often seems to me, to be, a good thing, to remind myself. On the flip, but same side of that, Dan Gurney started a Nascar race by saying ” Gentlemen…and Jimmy Spenser … start your engines.” A great giggle and a good start.