MadScientistMatt wrote: "You can't make a race horse out of a pig, but you can make a very fast pig."
Wasn't this in reference to the porsche 928?
MadScientistMatt wrote: "You can't make a race horse out of a pig, but you can make a very fast pig."
Wasn't this in reference to the porsche 928?
How do you make a small fortune in racing? Start with a large one.
"Congratulations!"
"Rafferty says to take the tight line"
This V V V
"Too much horsepower...It's only a concept!"
"You have really good car control, Too bad you have to use it all the time"...Terry Earwood, chief driving instructor for Skip Barber.
'Keep the throttle pinned till you see God, then hold it a half second longer.'
On allegedly excessive horsepower: 'That's why the throttle turns both ways.' Roger DeCoster (MX legend)
ditchdigger wrote:MadScientistMatt wrote: "You can't make a race horse out of a pig, but you can make a very fast pig."Wasn't this in reference to the porsche 928?
I've always heard it attributed to Bob Akin and the 935.
I saw Elvis at a thousand feet!!! -John Force (everything he says ends with !!!)
Power is nothing without control.
Faster than you! -John Russell (ThunderCougarFalconGoat) from the open sunroof of a TBird Turbo Coupe to a ricer after we blew their doors off many, many moons ago.
“It is amazing how many drivers, even at the formula one level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.” -Mario Andretti
"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all others are just games." - Ernest Hemingway
"I may be a mediocre racer but, being a racer, I'm not a mediocre person." -GRMS forum contributer
"Balls make the difference"
(Label on the steering wheel of David Pearson's short track car, 1971.)
seeker589 wrote: I got a little behind on my steering. -unknown
Usually attributed to Curtis Turner, 60s NASCAR driver. Legend holds that he said it to a journalist after crashing out of the Daytona 500.
"And it's a new track record"
"In most forms of motor racing, the best strategy is simply to lead every lap." -Al or Bob Holbert, "Driving to Win", 1980.
"There is such a thing as racing luck. It's found on the shop floor at 3 in the morning."
Generally attributed to Dan Gurney...
Platinum90 wrote: Jean-Pierre Sarti: Before you leave I want to tell you something. Not about the others, but about myself. I used to go to pieces. I'd see an accident like that and be so weak inside that I wanted to quit - stop the car and walk away. I could hardly make myself go past it. But I'm older now. When I see something really horrible, I put my foot down. Hard! Because I know that everyone else is lifting his. Louise Frederickson: What a terrible way to win. Jean-Pierre Sarti: No, there is no terrible way to win. There is only winning.
(from the same movie) Nino Barlini: I think you should go to the Greek islands with your American boyfriend. I think you should go to hell.
And I think Antonio Sabato should have killed the writer that gave him 90% of what he said in the movie...
not particularly automotive/motorsports related, but... "Barring success, immortality can be guaranteed by spectacular failure" - someone who's name I can't remember currently
Smooth is fast.
jde wrote:ditchdigger wrote:I've always heard it attributed to Bob Akin and the 935.MadScientistMatt wrote: "You can't make a race horse out of a pig, but you can make a very fast pig."Wasn't this in reference to the porsche 928?
He who's faster, travels alone.
Turn the gas on Dummy! <- Above the fuel pump switch
Hurley Haywood about the 935 Turbos, after winning the 24hrs at Daytona - as I remember.
Another good one, So, Mario, what can you say helped you win the Indianapollis 500? "I used more STP dan da udder guys." Upon winning the Indy 500 in a car sponsored by STP.
Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car. Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Slyp_Dawg wrote: not particularly automotive/motorsports related, but... "Barring success, immortality can be guaranteed by spectacular failure" - someone who's name I can't remember currently
http://www.ozyandmillie.org/d/20060608.html
"To be remembered for wisdom, one must be willing to make the most spectacularly bad decisions, and learn honestly from them."
"Tis a grand day for motorcar racing." said, of course, in the accent of Sir Jackie.
"It is always easier to gain back a bit of speed in the middle of the corner than it is to get rid of a bit too much."
"If you didn't crash, how do you know you were going as fast as you could?"
"The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical" - Murray Walker
"It's basically the same, just darker." - Alan Kulwicki, on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons.
With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is." - Murray Walker
"You're not a racing driver, you're a f***ing idiot!" - Ayrton Senna yelling at Jordan, Eddie Irvine after the 93 Japanese Grad Prix
"If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot; if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me where I belong."
"You drive the car, you don't carry it." - Janet Guthrie
"He's got a 10-foot ego, and a four-foot body, and it ain't working too good right now." - Mike Bliss after being punted by Bobby Hamilton Jr.
"If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting." - Darrell "Jaws" Waltrip
"I think it's gonna be some exciting racing, gonna see something you'd probably never seen on Fox." - Dale Earnhardt Dale's words to Matt Yokum awaiting the start of the 43rd Daytona 500 on February 18, 2001. A few hours later, Dale died in a last lap crash.
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