"I'm not sure whether I'm an actor who races or a racer who acts." - Steve McQueen "Understeer is hitting the wall with the front of your car. Oversteer is hitting it with the rear." ... "Fireball" Roberts.
The difference between understeer and oversteer is the direction the car was pointing when it made the hole in the fence.
local stock car driver... There are cheaters and there are losers. Do you take the law seriously in this town...... the two preists in the red ferrari are flashers Burt Reynolds.....Cannonball Run
When Eddie Hill just put the first 4 sec ET on the clock the mph wasn't very high, his comment: Maybe it was too quick to build up any speed...
"Second place is the first looser!" "Horsepower sells engines, but torque wins races!" "Built Ford Tough With Chevy Stuff"
"You can't burn much rubber with a semi-infinite slab." -- Greg Hedding (sp?) U of MN, Mechanical Engineering student, late 70s or early 80s. (obscure heat-transfer engineering terminology as it relates to real cars and horsepower)
Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it. Jeff Spicoli
"Brotha can't drive." - Comedian Eddie Griffin after wrecking his producers $1.5 million Enzo Ferrari
The correct quote is actually "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black." Same sentiment though.
"As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it. Smokey Yunick "Make that 11!" - Smokey Yunick, (while driving away with no gas tank) after being told his car was disqualified from the Daytona race for having 10 violations.
from Don garlits from drag race he was commentating at for TSN : Gasoline is for washing parts, alcohol is for drinking, nitro is for racing
"After the third flip, I lost control............" [SIZE=-1]Don Roberts after crashing in the Jade Grenade at New England Dragway in 1975[/SIZE] It's true, I was there........
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