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Winners are convinced they will finish first. The others hope to finish first.
Over hill and under hill
Speed has become an important element of strategy.
Between reaction and revolution there is nothing to choose. Neither leave the track, they just allow different people to drive while the same people are run over.
No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic.
The race was on; the souls of the racers were in it; over them bent the myriads.
When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.
The cars rushing below knew nothing. People in cars weren't New Yorkers anyway, they'd suffered some basic misunderstanding. The two boys on the walkway, apparently standing still they were moving faster than the cars.
Nineteen seventy-five.
People who stand in the "middle-of-the-road" get run over.
The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.
Closers. So let's close this one out. Bosch and Rider stood
I am not a driver, I am a racer.
going on between-- Pat White
When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I'm pretty good at passing.
The race is long. To finish first, you must first finish.
trails and across rushing,
I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.
When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.
Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.
People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.
Racing is not what I like to do; it's winning.
Overcopulation
The Main Street Babbitts
are fucking like rabbits,
competing and coping
in a crowded place,
overeating and moping,
bleating and hoping,
it's not the end
of the human race.
But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
Watch the time - it gives you an indication of how fast they are running.
Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.
Stealers, keepers.
Nobody is faster than me.
The traffic was moving about the speed of a government
A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.
When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.
In a race, what matters is not who started first, but who finished first.
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.
I couldn't begin to name names ... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet ... and some of the nicest as well.
When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
The human race. No winners, just slower losers.
Under pressure, a team will consciously or unconsciously begin to be more conservative in what they take on. They will begin rating things as a bit larger or a bit harder than they used to. This will give the impression that they're going faster, but they are not.
During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.
You don't race cars, you race the rule book
The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
The supporters ... It is true that they are dangerous when they run close to the riders. From there to throwing a punch. That is a step ...
During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are going to end up in the back of that ambulance.
Every year we find something new, we go faster, and that's what Formula One is about .
That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.
Have you ridden over anyone you shouldn't?
Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.
That was the damnedest thing about these demonic collaborator types. Even though they didn't work out and practice, they still got to run faster than we dedicated roadsters who actually sweated and strained for our ability to haul ass. Jerks.
I like fast cars. And I like champions.
When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.
Drivers hit their horns in anticipation of potential fractional delays.
Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can't hit the fence at 100 miles per hour.
I can overact in two seconds.
My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
Miami drivers have long ago take the simple chore of going from one place to another and turned it into a kind of high-speed, heavily armed game of high-stakes bumper cars.
their bikes and playing kick
speed understander,
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first ... being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go.
Anyone who has ever ridden a bike, especially if you've commuted on one, will know that you fight a never-ending battle to be recognized as a legitimate possessor of road space. That's a very fancy way of saying that you engage in daily battles with asshole drivers.
In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge.
In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble is always with the swiftest.
Punish the pushers and shovers by letting them get ahead.
All leading from the rear gets you, is first place at the back of the line.
What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.
The abuse of cabmen in a block.
If you travel to the continent you never have any problems overtaking, this is the only country I know where the outside lane is congested and the two inner lanes are empty. It drives me crazy. I'm ashamed that is so typically British.
Ultimately, the best driver will always do something special, whatever the rules and whatever the regulations. Same thing with the teams.
...a herd of motorcycles.
Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.
Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.
Turbos are people who can't build engines.
Speed, to hear their skates clapping along, then
I think we're our biggest competition. I think the racetrack's the biggest competition. If we go and race the racetrack and try to go around the racetrack faster than our competition, then that's the goal. I look at it as a competition between us and the racetrack because it's all about lap time.
You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
to seize them: no speed seemed too
I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.
Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him
At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.
My timing is perfect, and I wind up in a traffic jam. The cars around me are driven by fat cows and bellowing bulls. We roll along, six mph. I can run faster than this. We brake. They chew their cud and moo into their phones until the herd shifts gears and rolls forward again.
I don't really study the guys that I'm racing against.
One more lap, Denny! One more lap! Faster!
You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.
A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.
I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by:
Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you.
People underestimate my speed. I'm pretty fast.
Our cheeky sidekick. We're like a motorcycle and sidecar.
One car behind him. Two
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
It's an amazing confidence boost when you have that swagger of knowing when you pull on the racetrack, all eyes are on you because they know you're the best.
Drive fast and swerve a lot.
I stand beside Tom's barn and ponder the benign heedlessness of the people in the speeding cars, and here I am in the speeding car. In my heart I wish the bypass had never been built; in my car I never take the old way.
I can say when it comes to championships it's a tactical race and normally you don't have a pacesetter who can set a pace for fast times. That is why you see that obviously we fall around 1:43 because that is the most favorable one can run from the front.
The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.
We race the world, and as fast as it rotates, as fast at it revolves, we are faster.
Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing.