I will start with a great quote from Aussie Alan Jones


"About as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle." (Alan Jones, describing the Lola in '86)

You can find quite a few here

Interviewer:
Just a moment ago when you got out of the car, was there a major problem there?
David Coulthard:
No, not at all, I was told I had an interview with you guys, and that obviously takes priority over doing laps on the circuit.

Also the ones in my signature:
Sebastien Vettel, shortly after winning his first Grand Prix had a microphone shoved in his face while a journalist put it to him that "this must be the best day of your life." Vettel's response? "You obviously weren’t there when I lost my virginity."
"The year I get here he bails out - I don't know if I had something to do with that!" - Lewis Hamilton on Schumacher retiring
"F1 won't change me" - Jenson Button, just weeks before dumping his girlfriend of five years and buying a Ferrari
"This is my year" - David Coulthard

Murray Walker describes Rene Arnoux's excuses for being so hard to pass/lap in the late 1980s. James Hunt's reply to those...

"And all I can say to that is bullsh*t".

classic!

Alan Jones while testing for Williams at the same time had Harriers 'playing' above them and Jones observing them said "we are only playing games down here"

Mario Andretti once said "You can tidy up speed, but you can't speed up tidyness"

I bet someone quotes Senna on Monaco (you know, about faith and limits and all) before the night is out. It's a good quote, but it's become such a cliche that it's lost all meaning to me. Sometimes it seems that everyone who haunts the racing-themed parts of the internet has it as a forum signature.

Murray Walker was the King of Quotes! You should look them up, almost every sentence the man said is hilarious !!
"With half the race gone, there's still half a race to go"

gr.Jeroen

Another Jones-ism (is there such a word? ) after the Williams team removed the suspension from his FW07. Frank Williams suggests "You could sit on your wallet, Alan."

"Yeah, if you gave me something to put in it!"

In Oz and possible England they show a one hour test session and other stuff about Jones and it was on that day they decided to try no suspension (at the height of extreme downforce to keep the car level).

Upon fitting solid struts and lowering the jacks with Jones in the car he simply said "ouch".

Classic moment when he came around for the first time on that lap full lock sideways too

Maybe he should make a comeback like Schumi, now that the Red Bull is better am sure is gonna be his year.

Anyway here's a relatively new one: "Put any seasoned executive into F1 and they turn into a big kid."-Gerard Lopez


And here is from a guy who had his career end a little premature than what he planned:

"Wow, great qualifier, Alessandro, you were so fast today!"
"Me I'm always the same. It's the car which goes faster."
(Alessandro Nannini)

BBC docu "Gentlemen, lift your skirts"?

"Dave, what do you think happened there, steering failure?" -Rick DeBruhl
"No, looks like a brain failure..." -David Hobbs

Commentating during one of Alex Yoong's spins during a free practice at the US GP at Indy.

Never!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rvq3_ay...onaco-1991_auto

A small collection: http://www.worldmotorsport.com/murray/

"I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well."

That's the most pretentious thing I've heard in my entire life. It'd be good if Jenson taught him some humility

Jenson: "I'm the best driver ever!"

Get a sense of humor! You seem to understand the jokes of Jenson, try to apply it for others too.

Mansell is going slowly... oh no, there he breaks the lap record

I like the banner in Barcelona for Eddie Irvine as well: "Eddie, I'm pregnant"!

I'd never heard that one.

Kimi in Brazil 2006

Hard to top that one.

"Schumacher is just another driver.It's not my stile thinking that the world champion is always the best. For this,I don't think MS is the best,just 'cause he won 5 titles. He's just another driver and nothing more."

Kimi Raikkonen 2003



"Why racing in F1? It's always better than working."
(Jacques Laffitte)

"There are too many old drivers in this sport. A few years ago a couple of drivers a year got killed and no one took any notice. It was a sort of natural culling." - Bernie Ecclestone, 1993


"It was a great race. No one got killed." - Juan Manuel Fangio 1958 Italian Grand Prix


"It is the best accident I've had in Formula 1 so far." - Jacques Villeneuve describes his spectacular shunt at Eau Rouge at Spa, 1998

"He is a genuine speed freak and he drives with enormous aggression and flair, but he seems unable to combine that with common sense." - James Hunt 1981 on Gilles Villeneuve

"I swear he[Gilles Villeneuve] was trying to scare us." -Spectator of 1979 US GP at Watkins Glen talking about Gilles' driving.

Piquet

"Do they mean doing a lot of publicity? I don't want to make friends with anybody. I don't give a shit for fame. I just want to win"

"Okay, Ricardo - I want you to go out there and do exactly what Jacques does ..."

-- What Craig Pollock probably said to Ricardo Zonta when Zonta went off in almost exactly the same place as Villeneuve.

And wasn't Villeneuve's Eau Rouge crash in 1999?

Must be...I remember the BAR-livery...

I like it.

DC's call that he was going to kick 3/4 of the living s*** out of the bastard (in regards to massa at australia 08) cracks me up everytime

"The only thing you can judge in this sport it is the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race".

(Alain Prost)

Thanks, hunnylander, it is the quintessential F1 quote. It says all about transcendence, going further than even you yourself have believed. The "flow effect" is a phenomenon that most pilots experience once they let go and just are "in the zone", but no one expressed it as beautifully as Ayrton Senna.

You think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and touch this limit and you think, okay, this is the limit. As soon 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. - Ayrton Senna

That was classic Hunt!

Here is it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khA67-r5lSQ

Didn't he crash there three years in a row?

1998, 1999 and 2000?

I don't know what the exact quote was but I believe Nelson Piquet once compared driving around Monaco to 'trying to ride a motorbike around your loungeroom'

"Guys, I'm coming in, I'm having have too much grip!"

That was Chanoch Nissany in the practise session of the 2005 Hungarian Grand Prix. He was in a Minardi. Somehow he was 13 seconds slower then the fastest that day.

A helicopter ;p

I read, that he originally said, it´s like flying a helicopter in your living-room...

Phil Hill in the late 60s.

"Have you retired from motor racing Phil?"

"No, motor racing has retired from me."

I was not able to find the original quotes but I remember something like this :

Journalist to Sid Watkins : "Can you tell us how F1 pilots have the courage to drive so fast?"
Sid Watkins : "Well they have no brain!"

LOL

You've got to be kidding. He really said that?

I'm not kidding. He is Israel's first Formula One driver.

See my signature.

Everyone will tell me I'm wrong on the year but: Jack Brabham 1966 'When the flag drops, the bullsh1t stops'. How true!

Australia 1995
On Thursday evening Irvine was having a drink with some friends in the hotel bar. Schumacher came in and Eddie invited him to join them.
Eddie: "Michael, come and have a drink with us!"
M Schumacher: "No thanks, I don't drink alcohol, I simply can't."
Eddie's reply: "Why? Are you pregnant?"

Senna : You're not racing! You're driving like a ****ing idiot. You're not a racing driver, you're a ****ing idiot!
Irvine : You talk, you talk. You were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It has to be Piquet:

Rep: "So Nelson do you want to win today?"
Piq: "No. i want to be 15th"


Rep: "So nelson who do you dedicate this title to?"
Piq "To me. I won it."

Peter Warr at Lotus referring to Mansell.

"He'll never win a Grand Prix as long as I have a hole in my arse".

Martin Brundle Gridwalk at Monaco:

“Here’s Bernie here with his arm around ... I think it’s his daughter. Oh, it’s Geri Halliwell, sorry! That’s gonna go down well, isn’t it?!”

then Senna punched him in the face. shame there are no pics/videos from that moment

Martin: "Bryan, glad I caught up with you. Had to run to you. It seems like everything I do today is in a bit of a rush, but please forgive me." ... "The first time I went to a Grand Prix I thought I was going to go to Heaven." ... "These drivers are pretty reckless, but they don't give up do they?" ... "Thanks for talking to us, let's hope we can make it a race to remember."
Bryan Adams: "Yeah, when you're gone."

Yep, Senna was the icon of thug driver. I always preferred gentlemen drivers.

-Juan, in this lap, we've seen a deer and believe it's somewhere on the circuit.
-Oh deer!
-Yes, its like a horse with horns
-I know.... Oh deer!

Not only wrong year, 1965, but wrong person, Colin Chapman at Indianpolis.