A racing driver has to be a good driver.
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.
Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.
As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.
The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.
I have to accept risk as a racing driver.
It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.
If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.
By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.
I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.
Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.
From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. And the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. I race to win as long as I feel it's possible. Sometimes you get it wrong? Sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. But I race designed to win, as long as I feel I'm doing it right.
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.
As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it.
Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.
You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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