Racing & 911 Sayings/slogans

[dad911]

What are your favorite racing/911/porsche slogans?
Here are a few to start...

Remember when RACING was dangerous and SEX was safe?

Short Skidmarks.
Skidmarks in your shorts.
You should have both when racing.

I live with FEAR everyday but sometimes she lets me RACE

WANNA COME IN SECOND? FOLLOW ME!

Happiness is watching the race in your rearview mirror.

[widebody911]

Racing, like sex, should consist of more than 10 seconds in a straight line.

Having a Porsche will get you through times when you can't have sex better than sex will get you through times when you can't have a Porsche.
(paraphrased)

[emcon5]

Can't remember where I saw this, maybe Thom knows.:

"Hey, ya gotta have horsepower and brakes!"



I like this one too:



Tom

[JDaniel]

"The Porsche is in the Shop!"

[ChrisBennet]

My friend Michael told me this one:

There are 3 kinds of track drivers:
Those who have hit the wall.
Those who will hit the wall.
Those who will hit the wall again.

[GeorgeK]

"Confort comes from pleasure, not the other way around"
I say that to anyone who complains about the stiff seats in my cars.
GeorgeK

[ttweed]

I've been collecting these for awhile:

"It is better to enter a corner slow, and come out fast, than to enter a corner fast, and come out dead." --Sir Stirling Moss

"If you can leave black marks on a straight from the time you exit a corner till the time you brake for the next turn, then you have enough horsepower." --Mark Donohue

"Racing is life......anything before or after is just waiting" --Michael Delaney (Steve McQueen's character in "Le Mans", 1970)

"There is no terrible way to win...... there is only winning." --Jean-Pierre Sarti (Yves Montand's character in "Grand Prix", 1967)

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

"Speed costs money. How fast do you want to go?" -- Teddy Mayer

"If you can't be fast, be pretty. If you can't be
pretty, be loud." -- Dennis Grant

"You can live in your car, but you can't race your house" -bumpersticker wisdom

"When the green flag drops, the I.Q's go to single digits." -- Lee Chewey

"The driver who keeps the front tires the straightest will win." -- Anonymous

"I spent most of my money on fast cars and fast women, the rest of it I just wasted".
Unknown

"If you are totally under control you're going too slow." -- Parnelli Jones

"It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance." --Jackie Stewart

Ruth Levy, when asked if she ran out of brakes causing a near fatal accident (hers). "No, I ran out of brains."

"Straights are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers." --unknown

"Racing makes heroin addiction seem like a vague wish for something salty." -- Peter Egan

"Aerodynamics are for people who can't build motors." --Enzo Ferrari

"I am an artist; the track is my canvas, and the car is my brush." - Graham Hill

"But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark

"There is a fine line between a hobby and a mental illness." - Dave Barry

"If you want to make a small fortune racing,
start with a large one. "
-Unknown

"The only reason they put a Rear View Mirror in a Porsche is so that you can see where you are going AFTER you make a mistake."
-Rick Knoop

"Coming in second is like wetting yourself in black pants; it warms you up but nobody notices."--anon

And the classic, where Froilan Gonzalez is looking at the tire of a modern (for 1972!) Indy car: "I can remember when the drivers were fat and the tires were skinny!"

and finally:

"Driving a racecar is like sitting in a big, loud, smelly, smokey tin box during an earthquake, tearing up $100 bills." --me

TT

[Randy W]

Great post TT - I think you covered it. Yeah, this is why we love the sport...

[bandicot]

TT, that was excellent. Thanks. This one made me laugh out loud, thoroughly confusing my co-workers:

"Racing makes heroin addiction seem like a vague wish for something salty." -- Peter Egan

[Chuck Moreland]

[joefrantz]

A couple of my favorites:

The biggest problem for inexperienced drivers is they go too fast in slow corners and too slow in fast corners. -- Emerson Fittipaldi

I've always thought that a good driver is one who can still win with a bad car. -- AJ Foyt

"Obviously I've clobbered the wall." -- Graham Hill to hapless track reporter at Indianapolis when asked "What happened?"


Joe Frantz

[slakjaw]

youv got to go around full stick thats what seperates the good drivers from the bad

the last open road

[Sergio Meza]

PORSCHE is German for "Give me all your money".

[GIBSON]

In the late 70's there was a quote going around attributed to the guy who owned Bayside Disposal, he used to race 935's in IMSA. Can't remember his name, somebody will....was it Bruce Levin?
He is supposed to have said, regarding racing 911's/935's,
"You can't make a pig into a race car but you can make a mighty fast pig".
He also used to reply when asked why he got into GT racing that he thought GT stood for Garbage Truck and since his business was hauling trash, it fit.
Here's his 935/78 in later trim at Mosport in 81:

[Doug E]

TT - great post! My wife just came in to check on me because I was laughing so hard at some of your sayings she thought I was crying. Damn, that's good stuff.

[Tony911Z]

TT- I second or third that-great post. I thought I was the only one to quote from the movie Grand Prix ! Do you have the sound track? I get some interesting looks when the parts that integrate music and 60s F1 car sounds eminate from my car.

[speeder]

Chuck, Where can I get that poster? It's beautiful.

[Chuck Moreland]

That picture/slogan ran as a magazine ad back when.


I thought it was way cool. Apparently so did other people because it was made into a poster also.

I did a quick google search on "kills bugs fast porsche" and came up with a bunch of references to find the picture. Give that a shot, some are selling posters.

[J-RAD]

Those are some great quotes! Here's another saying that I like...it's kind of become a motto of sorts:
"Do you know what 2nd place is? First loser!"

[Milu]

"There are two kinds of Porsche driver, the ones who have spun and the ones who are going too."

This is so quoted it is almost a proverb. I said it to my ex business partner before he took out a jointly owned 911 for the first time for the weekend. He replied that he was in the unique third category of drivers who had never spun and would not spin. Famous last words. Two weeks later he spun at 95 mph in the rain while trying to impress with his driving prowess a young lady he was holidaying with; smashing front, rear and one side of the car, as well as taking out a motorway toll booth. Car, unbeknownst to me, was not fully insured and was off the road for four months. Poetic justice: his wife and his long time girlfriend found out about the young lady as did her fiancee.