Can't remember exactly what he said but Paul Stoddart at Indy 2005 asking if he can swear on national tv then letting rip with swear words, love his tell it as it is style

Did I miss the "second place is the first loser" qoute or is it not posted yet?

Funniest quote without a doubt!

Belgian Grand Prix 1991, Bertrand Gachot had just been jailed. When Eric Van De Poele had a big crash and went to hospital for a checkup, a marshal apparently said "Things could not be worse. Of the three Belgian drivers, one is in hospital, one is in jail and one is in a Ligier"

(Thierry Boutsen was the Ligier driver incidentally)

The words of Mario Andretti:

- If everything is under control, you're not going fast enough.
- This too is motor racing. (after a race fatality)
- It feels like it's painted to the road. (of Lotus 78)
- It was just a couple of young lions clawing at each other. (Villeneuve and Arnoux, Dijon '79)
- If you wait, all that happens is you get older.

"[Spygate] was a minor indiscretion by junior members of the organisation...."

Ron Dennis. Jan 4, 2010

Suzuka 2000, Thursday press conference

Mika Hakkinen: "The only thing I will change is that in every corner I will try to brake three metres later."

MS: "If he brakes three metres later, I will brake five metres later."

Mika Hakkinen: "See you in the gravel."

MS: "We'll meet together!"



"Putting the engine in the rear part of the car is like having the horses pushing the cart". -Enzo Ferrari


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


"The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much."
- Colin Chapman

"You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built"
-Colin Chapman.

"I'm not scared of driving fast in GP circuits...But I'm scared of driving my car on public roads and be overtook by idiots who think they're Fangio"
- Juan Manuel Fangio.

"Gilles was the last great driver. The rest of us are just a bunch of good professionals." - Alain Prost

"When I was in F1, s.e.x was safe and motor racing was dangerous" - Hans Joachim Stuck

"If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough" - Mario Andretti

"Racing drivers have balls, unfortunately, none of them are crystal" - David Coulthard

"This is truly the greatest achievement in motorsport" - Senna about Monaco 1992 qualis (Robert Moreno qualified in Andrea Moda for the race)

Another from Alan Jones:

After wining a race he was asked:
- Did tires have an important role in your victory?
- Oh yes, absolutely. They keep the car from touching the ground, you see.

Check my signature.

Chief designer is a junior member at McLaren......

Read some yearly reviews the last few days.

Some interesting ones from the yearly quotes reviews on this site:

2001:

"I'd rather have a fast, unreliable car than a slow, reliable car."
Ron Dennis - McLaren team boss

"We see things differently from Ferrari. If you castrate the sport, one day it's not going to be interesting anymore."
Juergen Hubbert - Mercedes-Benz boss, on Ferrari's team orders in Austria.

"If he thinks he has been granted by divine grace some right which allows him to overtake wherever he wants, I have news for him: he can forget it. He won't intimidate me, because I'm not psychologically fragile as other drivers."
Juan Pablo Montoya - Williams driver, on Michael Schumacher.

"I'm convinced that one day I'll drive for Ferrari. A bit more experience and I'll get there."
Kimi Raikkonen - Sauber driver.

"It was magic, incredible, crazy. It was better than sex."
James Courtney - F3 driver, after testing for Jaguar for the first time

http://atlasf1.autosport.com/2001/oct31/elizalde.html

2002:

"I have to be honest to say now it was probably the wrong decision to win this race. If I had the chance to turn it around, I would probably do so but I cannot now."
Michael Schumacher - Ferrari driver, after the Austrian GP.

"The Ferrari is a tainted vehicle and Formula One is no longer a sport. If they had instructed me to do the same I would have told them to stuff it. It is an endorsement of why I'm glad I'm not in F1 today."
Stirling Moss - Former F1 driver.

"I don't really have a problem with team orders at the racetrack. The only thing that I felt was unacceptable was the podium situation. You accepted taking the win, you didn't slow down, you felt good about it, you raised your hand on the last lap until you heard people booing at you. Step up there, take the trophy and be a man."
Jacques Villeneuve - BAR driver

"I promise, there won't be another season like this. Next year it's going to be a good show again."
Bernie Ecclestone - Formula One boss.

"I think he is very good, he is a very likeable young man and he deserves a place in Formula One. But can he become one of the greats? No, I don't think he can."
Mike Gascoyne - Renault technical director, on Jenson Button

http://atlasf1.autosport.com/2002/oct30/elizalde.html

2003:

"I will remain in Formula One for many years. If there comes a time when I can't keep up with younger drivers then I will probably think it is time to stop. But that is still far away."
Michael Schumacher - Ferrari driver.

"I have never seen a more impressive car."
Norbert Haug - Mercedes-Benz boss, on the McLaren MP4-18

"People want characters and you have to look at guys like Jacques Villeneuve and Eddie Irvine who tell it like it is. That's what we want. All this business is a joke when they get out of the car and thank their grandmother, their aunt, their tyre company, the fuel company, the sponsor, my uncle, where he went to school. It's all crap. They don't want to thank anybody."
Bernie Ecclestone - Formula One supremo.

http://atlasf1.autosport.com/2003/oct29/elizalde.html

2004:

"This is not the sort of day we were expecting or wanted to see. It's a disaster. Ferrari were not supposed to be going this fast. They were supposed to have all sorts of problems with tyres and their engines but it doesn't look like they have."
Bernie Ecclestone - Formula One supremo

"As a driver I think I am the best on the grid. If I have the equipment to win I will win, whoever my competition is. I've no worries."
Jenson Button - BAR driver.

"If you could guarantee to have overtaking, maybe it's not so exciting anymore, because people think 'OK, sure, he's just going to overtake him - it's normal'. Here it's not normal and they just wait for it."
Michael Schumacher - Ferrari driver

http://atlasf1.autosport.com/2004/nov10/elizalde.html

2005:

"There are two teams cheating here. The first one is BAR, as Imola showed, and the other one is Ferrari, who are testing more than what it is allowed in the agreement."
Fernando Alonso - Renault driver.

"If anything happened in Melbourne, it sunk into the sea or something, then we'd be back to Adelaide for sure."
Bernie Ecclestone - F1 supremo.

"Michael's crazy. He should have switched on his brain before he tried that move. One more millimetre and one of us could have been dead. Sometimes Michael is just not right in the head."
Ralf Schumacher - Toyota driver, on Michael Schumacher, Monaco

"I'd rather crash in third than finish fourth."
Jenson Button - BAR driver, Canada

"Mark Webber will be the next Australian World Champion - in boxing, not Formula One."
David Coulthard - Red Bull driver

"As long as he wants to stay in F1, he has a Ferrari car available to him."
Jean Todt - Ferrari team principal, on Michael Schumacher.

"This Championship is over, at least for me. I have been champion for a long time and I am more surprised by how long it has been. I always knew it would end one day."
Michael Schumacher - Ferrari driver.

"He's a very talented driver. I think he has surprised us by his calmness, considering he is from Spain."
Ron Dennis - McLaren team principal, on Fernando Alonso.

"With Michael on the track it is much better to win a title."
Fernando Alonso - Renault driver.

"I think there is a category of driver that comes from South America, Italy or Spain that doesn't have the discipline required to win the World Championship."
Ron Dennis - McLaren team principal.

http://www.autosport.com/journal/article.php/id/334

Some other other niceties:

“In 1970, a week before the Gold Cup, I heard that Ken Tyrrell would be running his own built car. So I rang him up and asked him. And he gave me a flat denial, and we published it on the front page of Motoring News, and the day after it was published, at the paddock in Oulton Park, was a brand new Tyrrell-Ford. So we knew going in that Ken Tyrrell, when it came to important things like that, would tell a lie. So you mark his card in your brain. And I got on extremely well with Ken Tyrrell and we had some wonderful interviews, and I believed what he told me. It was just on important things like that, when it was in his interests to keep something secret, he had no qualms at all about telling a lie.
"Ron Dennis once said to a colleague of mine, who accused Ron of lying, 'well of course I was going to lie, a billion dollars was involved.' This business of sassing out lies and whether you should trust people or not is entirely down to what previous experience you've had with these people, and I'm afraid you're only going to acquire that the hard way."

http://atlasf1.autosport.com/2003/mon/goren.html


I have a theory about drivers - I think the more intelligent they are the less quick they run, as if it makes them aware of how insanely dangerous it is to run at the speeds they need to compete.

http://atlasf1.autosport.com/2003/bri/preview/cameron.html


I remember I was there when Villeneuve first drove the Ferrari at Fiorano. He spun wildly about three times and, with everything wreathed in smoke, he came into the pits. Forghieri looked at him, shaking his head, and said, 'Gilles, this is a Formula One Ferrari, it is not a Formula Atlantic car. You cannot stop it like an Atlantic car. You cannot use the brakes like that!'
"'Brakes?' Villeneuve said. 'What do you mean, brakes? I haven't even touched them yet...'
"You should have seen Forghieri's face!"

http://www.autosport.com/journal/article.php/id/314


And of course Jonathan Legard on lap 4, Spa 2010 : "If any car is designed to get Lewis Hamilton charging up a hill it's Jenson Button."

2010 hockenhiem team orders
reporter to alonso
where does this win rank in your career fernando up there with singapore 2008

Murray Walker Argentina '97"And remember Jacques Villeneuve is a sick man!"
Montoya to JV" Do that again and I will put you in the *******wall" JV Response" I will put you in the ******* trees"
Gilles Villeneuve "If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari."

I can imagine that would be somthing Eddie will say

Ron Dennis came out with a comment re Vettel - 'To finish first, first you have to finish,'''

Mika on THAT overtaking move - "I loved it. Not sure if Michael did"

First one was 1998 in the Williams, while attempting to take it flat-out in qualifying.

Then in 1999...he did it all again. Then Zonta eclipsed him in the spectacular stakes.

"I was having a shit"
Kimi Raikonnen's reason for not attending the presentation at Michael Schumacher's final race. For a while.

"You're not going to get past me, you arrogant little kraut"
Alan Jones, speculating on what went through Jean Alesi's mind immediately before a collision with Michael Schumacher at the 1995 Australian GP, during his final race commentary on UK television. Ever.

Thats not F1 but I really love this one :
"My dad teached me everything I know, but he did not teach me everything he knows".

Al Unser Jr., after losing the Indycar title for one point to his father Al Sr. after a dramatic final race at Miami in 1985.
It really tells how competitive the 2 guys were, despite being father & son.

At a very wet Monaco GP in the 80's
Murray Walker 'this rain is really starting to get very heavy'
James Hunt 'yes Murray its absolutly pissing down'



The pits at Monza in late 50's. Ferrari driver is complaining to motoring journo that the car is not handling well and the car needs better brakes. Enzo Ferrari overhears the conversation and turns to admonish his driver ' you are paid to drive the car, not design it'.


Journo interviewing Jim Clark before the WDC decider in South Africa 1962.
Journo 'What is going to be your greatest problem to win the race'
Clark " Oh Graham Hill'
Journo 'Is that a difficult part of the circuit?'

Niki Lauda, when asked by an interviewer whether he believed in luck.
"Of course I believe in luck, for how else could I explain the success of others."

Quotes are funny, more often than not they are also attributes to the wrong persons.

Hahahah! I'm going to steal that one.

Do that, Jean Cocteau is since long dead and will not object

Alonso "i brought six tenths to this team!"

Is it an urban legend or did he really said that ?

He said that.

I guess it was when he was at Renault ?

I was at Chris Steele's workshop in 1971 picking up an FF engine when the NZ driver Peter Hull heard that Alan Jones had got a prime F3 drive, he remarked:

"Alan Jones! That bloke couldn't drive a greasy stick up a dog's arse..."

I think it was when he arrived at McLaren, unfortunately for him, Hamilton already had 0.7 seconds in hand....

No, it was when he was bitching at McLaren.

“I am not motivated by recognition, I just do things I like doing - racing, shagging, eating and drinking.” - David Coulthard

"Obviously I gave him too much room as he passed" - Michael Schumacher on the incident with Rubens at Hungary 2010.

"Life offers no guarantee for success. You can only do everything so that the best pops out. It's in doing this, we find ourselves." - Michael Schumacher

I said that.

No, Oscar Wilde did.

I don't remember who said it, but a team owner was giving an interview to a reporter just after his car retired, he gave the reason for the retirement as low oil pressure, the driver, obviously somewhat aggrieved piped up "Low oil pressure on account of a rod hanging out the block"

Murray Walker: "Andrea DeCesaris has the number 8 at McLaren this year"

James Hunt:" ...fortunately, it's the same number upside down."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/61742

"When I arrived in December, I remember the car I drove; I remember the results they had in 2006. And now, you know, I brought to the team half a second, six tenths, whatever, and I don't see anything giving me back."

I think you may have missed the punchline there Hairpin

Coulthard is my favourite for quotes

After being hit my a camera

"If I was Montoya, I would be like 'What the f*** are you doing"!?

Goodman "You been practicing with that pit lane speed limiter"

DC "yeah, I've just been pretending it's your nipples and being a bit more careful with it"

perhaps not a quote but james hunt(it could only be james hunt) wandering along the grid before a gp with his racing suit down showing his t shirt which said

you think my girfriends tough you should see her box...

or similar

I did? Explain it plz.