Hold my trophy, while I kiss your girlfriend.
devilboy wrote: My racing instructor as we are heading down the straight approaching turn 1 with faster cars attempting to overtake... "Don't slow down, make them earn it!"
You could start a whole new thread about "things instructors say". And of course that leads to the "the things students say" thread
Tazio Nuvolari, when asked why he jumped from his burning race car, which was going somewhere north of 80mph when he did.
"Better to be splattered on a billboard, than be roasted like a chicken!"
A truly amazing driver and rider http://www.nivola.org/nuvolarie.asp
Tralfaz wrote: " Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn. " - Charles De Mar:
I want my two DOLLARS!!!!!!
When asked why we didnt go out for a rain soaked practice session: we already know how to fix the car!
The funny thing about the guy who was wearing the drivers suit in my story is that he is the only guy that I am aware of out of my class who ever raced as a real pro: Bert Hart in the Barber Saab series
StevenFV19 wrote: How could I forget this: "America is all about speed, Hot, Nasty, Badass Speed."-Eleanor Roosevelt
Now, I think you may have made that up...it just doesn't sound like any Roosevelt I've heard of, except Teddy.
NYG95GA wrote: "It's our job to cheat; it's their job to catch us." ~Smokey Yunick
And then there's If it doesn't say we can't do something (in the rulebook), then of course we're gonna do it! The Smoke said something similar, I'm sure. More than once. To more than one inspector. The 3 fuel line leading to the fuel pump, that amounted to an extra 3-4 gallons of gas, comes to mind...
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at an HPDE: "Ask yourself - Is what I'm about to do going to affect my ability to drive home?"
and then....
FIDO. F*%k It. Drive On.
John Brown wrote: "You were absolutely hauling ass the last time I lapped you!"
Haha! I've always liked that one.
"I don't want to hurt anybody, but I just gotta get out there...get third or come and visit me in the hospital, man, I dig carnations." - Gene Romero
Charlie Cox, who did the TV broadcast of the British Touring Car Championship a few years ago on The Speed Channel, on seeing racers go three wide into a corner:
"This is sure to end in tears............and it does!"
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