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Oversteer is when the navigator is really scared.

Understeer is when the driver is really scared.

Unknown WRC driver

"You can't be lost if you don't give a damn where you are."

Camillo Stever

"It does no good to step on the brakes if you're on the roof."

P.L. Newman

"Luck and light weight compensate for a lack of torque."

Loran

"Engineers make cars go fast.

Mechanics make them finish."

Lugs

"It looked like a helluva race in my mirrors."

Stroker Ace

"If you think everything's under control, you're not going fast enough."

Mario Andretti

"...we crashed because we were going very fast. Perhaps a bit too fast at

that particular point..."

French WRC driver

"If you're worried about hitting those trees, perhaps you shouldn't go off

the road there..."

Sir Stirling Moss

"Yeah-we had a great race car this morning, but is sure is for **** now!"

Patrick Carpentier-98 LeMans

"Strategy is what you'd like to do. Tactics is what you end up doing."

Me

"The idea was to go as fast as possible. However, we were going faster than

possible, so......"

unknown Pro Rally driver

"To make up time when you're lost, you must go very fast when you're lost."

unknown Paris--->Dakar driver

"It is not possible for me to steer while the car is going off the road."

Francois Duval

"You know why alot of NASCAR fans don't like Jeff Gordon? Because he

enunciates. I mean, listen to yer average driver; 'Ah haddam poosh go'n

inta turn 3 andthe

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hadda little problem but it ran great all day even tho ah finished 61st,

we're lookin' tah runnin' good atthe next race...' With Jeff, you can

understand every single word he says. And the fans can't handle that..."

Jeff Foxworthy

When the 2-time Daytona 500 winner Darrel Waltrip was asked February the

19th about where he expected the competition to come from, he replied "Those

other 40 guys. They're really persistent."

"When a couple of good mechanics can't find the problem that you've pulled

in for, you kind of want to get out of the car and say 'Ok, guys-it's your

turn to drive...'"

Porsche GT2 driver, '02 Daytona 24hrs

"Well-I didn't see anything-I got clobbered and... Then I did see the

wall... But that's all, really..."

Ricky Craven-'01 Talladega

"I have the soul of a Ferrari trapped inside the body of a Citroen."

Connie

"Yeah-looking back in retrospect, slicks don't work real well in the

rain..."

P.J. Jones-Toronto '99

"...Me-I was convinced that Senna was from Mars..."

Eddie Cheever

"Yeah-Ah hadda great racecar, but Ah guess Ah didn't know what to do with

it."

Dale Jarret-Watkins Glen '01

"Yeah-we ran a bunch of good laps with the DuPont/Quaker State/Kellogg's

Chevrolet, but then there was that one bad lap..."

Jeff Gordon

"It's a real interestin' corner by 'th time ya git there..."

Bill Elliot-Watkins Glen '97

"Second is the first last place."

Michael Schumacher