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Simon TR4a

Simon TR4a

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I'll start; I heard Michael Waltrip say this on some Nascar programme on TV..."The problem with racing is that they always put the corners at the end of the straights where you're going so darn fast!"

A comment on the less than stellar career of Michael Andretti, not sure who said this, "Just because he"s from Nazareth doesn't mean he can walk on water".

And finally, Carroll Shelby, "Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races."

Take it away...
Simon.
 
"You win some, lose some, and wreck some." Dale Earnhardt Sr.
 
Can't remember the driver, but this was in the Speed coverage of the SCCA Runoffs a few years back.

"I tried to outbrake him into the corner when I ran out of talent." /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
This one is from Jim Hall but it probably dates back even further. "How can you make a small fortune in racing?"

>>>>answer below<<<<










"Start with a large one"
 
I was running at Laguna one year and at the driver's meeting Steve Earle was giving us the usual talk about how one body to body contact would result in a season suspension.

One brave and imprudent driver spoke up and asked why Phil Hill (I think), who had been in a minor bit of body contact earlier in the season, wasn't banned for a year.

I was impressed by Steve, who responded without a pause "You get one free incident with every world championship..."
 
Al Unser Jr.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

A. J. Foyt

I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston 's freeways.
 
Murray Walker:

"The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical"

"... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds."

"...and he's lost both right front tyres"

"...and Schumacher has just completed lap 77 out of 73"

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

"That's history. I say history because it happened in the past"


& there are many, many more...he's more fun than the races themselves!
 
Wasn't it Sterling Marlin (Nascar Driver),who said
(of his Chevy Monte Carlo)-
- "It's just like the car you can buy at your local Chevy dealers)?
Yeah - like you can buy a V8,RWD Monte Carlo!

- Doug
 
Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines"
Enzo Ferrari

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Mario Andretti

...and for all you lucky ladies out there, a racer will receive an additional ten points for every woman scored... and the race committee wishes to remind you all that any score is a good score!
Death Race 2000
 
"Racing is life. Anything else is just.........waiting."
Steve McQueen, the movie "LeMans."

"We had an electrical problem. When the rod came through the block it knocked the starter off."
Kas Kastner

Parker Johnstone, after a major crash at Elkhart lake, and being asked what was the first thing that went through his mind. "Well, for a minute I thought it was going to be a front suspension part."

Jeff
 
Parker Johnstone

Wow! I remember him when he worked for Bondurant Driving School.
We used him as the Guest Instructor at our annual
"Driver's School" Auto X.
The coolest part is ....he drove a Ford Fiesta!
Also brought his Fiance.We told him that if she still
wanted to marry him after that weekend,they'ed probably stay married!
Kind of like using a local car rally as a marriage test-
- if you're still talking afterwards....

- Doug
 
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Elva - I can't believe you just quoted "Death Race 2000."

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Chris Economaki stuffed a microphone in Senna's face after he'd DNF'd the Lotus and asked what happened... Senna replied in his Brazilian Portugese English: "The car, she is all ****-ED up!"

The censors didn't understand him 'till the cat was well-and-truly outta the bag. Economaki's facial reaction was hilarious. We were all fall-down laughing over that one.
 
Here's a few I heard over the years.

"The problem with the car is a loose nut behind the steering wheel"

David Hobbs: " he's all over him like a cheap suit"

Buddy Baker: "I think the driver got behind on his steering"

Richard Petty: "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity"

I saw this on a dash of a race car one time and thought it pretty much sums it all up.
"If it's meant to be, it's up to me"
 
If you want to go really fast in a big Healey, a drop of whisky always helped.

Timo Makinen


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Nothing good has ever been reported about the full rotation of a race car about either its pitch or roll axis.

Carroll Smith


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Carburetor is a French word meaning 'leave it alone'.

Dick O'Kane


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...make the suspension adjustable and they will adjust it wrong -- look what they can do to a Weber carburetor in just a few moments of stupidity with a screwdriver.

Colin Chapman
 
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