One of the best Quotes

[ARCSinAK]

"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough HORSEPOWER" Mark Donohue

[Grady Clay]

Here is the most true:

“How do you make a small fortune in racing?”

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“Start with a big one.”


Best,
Grady

[lrodri64]

Another one:

It is not how fast you want to go, it is how much you want to spend..

[jimbauman]

It's not how fast you get there, it's HOW you get there FAST!

[wildcat077]

The one i grew up with ...

Speed cost money,how fast you wanna go ???

Cheers
Phil

[Boxer Boy]

To finish first...
first, you must finish.

[porschenut]

Originally Posted by Grady Clay

Here is the most true:

“How do you make a small fortune in racing?”

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“Start with a big one.”


Best,
Grady

I've always heard that in reference to winemaking.

[KOH]

I may have picked this up from a previous Pelican post:

"Understeer is when you see the tree you are hitting, if you only hear the tree then it was oversteer." (Walter Röhrl)

[Matt Monson]

Originally Posted by wildcat077

The one i grew up with ...

Speed cost money,how fast you wanna go ???

Cheers
Phil

And the corrollary to that is the old iron triangle:

Fast, Reliable, Cheap... pick two.

[ARCSinAK]

I like Walter's!!!!!!!

[tchanson]

“You can’t make a race car out of a pig… but you can make an awfully fast pig.”


-The late Bob Akin referring to the 935.







Tim

[esotoracing]

i use this one with my drivers before a race "It's time to kick the tyres and light the fires big daddy!"

[HawgRyder]

How about..."If a little is good...and more is better...then too much is just about right"
Bob

[cole930]

A. J. Foyt

" you either come to race or you come to f--- around "

Cole

[aj88cab]

14 posts and nobody has offered up what could be the greatest racing quote of all time....you guys are slipping...

"Racing is life, everything before and after is just waiting"-Steve McQueen

I just watched LeMans (agian) last night...wide screen, surround sound...I just kept turning up the volume!

[GothingNC]

A few good ones I found

"When I raced a car last it was at a time when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. Now, it's the other way round."
- Hans Stuck

" Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games."
- Earnest Hemingway

[jmohn]

I believe this is usually attributed to Colin Chapman:

"you can make any suspension perform reasonably well if you just stop it from moving"

Jerry M
'78 SC

[DaddyGlenn]

Leaning hard on a wrench looking at what your knuckles are going to hit when it finally breaks loose.... "this is gonna hurt"

You know you've said it

[JeremyD]

"To be fair," [Bobby]Allison said, "the car has unique characteristics, and some people may like it. I don't. I think they are $12,000 imported Corvairs."

Allison bashed the 911 for its notorious tendency to swap ends. Comparing three new 1974 Porsches—a 911, a Targa, and a Carrera—he complained that "when you'd go too deep into a corner and lift, the car would begin to spin. And if you went ahead and did the natural thing—lifted, or put on the brakes—then the car would spin."

Allison not not do well in the 1974 IROC series...

[Jeff Higgins]

"It takes a certain lack of imagination to be a race car driver..."

I've heard this attributed to various sources, most often Jackie Stewart. Anyone know who really said it?