F1 Quotes

Ketnix · Jan 17, 2013

“The first sign that there might be specific favoritism towards Mika came in Melbourne 1996,I was with my race engineer and Mika was chatting to his. The door opened and Ron walked in. I stood up to shake his hand and Ron ignored me.
Instead he strode over to sit next to Mika and said, ‘What’s the plan (for the race), guys?’ We all listened to Mika’s plans and then Ron said, ‘Okay, what are they doing?’ Here was my team principal talking about me as if I was a rival team. ‘They’ is not a word you use in a team situation, surely? At that exact moment, I think the naivety, the innocence of my youth, shattered around me,”

David Coulthard - excerpt from 'It Is What It Is'.

Hampus Andersson · Jan 17, 2013

Spa is a good race I would have enjoyed to be in myself. Pure skill. I would like to be racing now. It is the safest and best paid time to be racing . If I lived in America I could sue my mother for having me too early- for the loss of income!

- Nikki Lauda at the end of '97 season

Kartik Sri Harsha · Jan 27, 2013

The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately not as good as someone who is stimulated by passion and internal will - Sebastian Vettel

Daniel Ciglar · Jan 28, 2013

Michael Schumacher being interviewed in a pre-season-talkshow with the BBC on a car accident he has been involved in a few days before the start of the 1998 season:

M. Brundle: Michael, what exactly happened?

Schumacher: The taxi driver I've crashed into irritated me because he looked like Damon Hill... and the blonde lady at the back looked like Jacques Villeneuve.