If you think life is in control, you’re not going fast enough.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.
If you don’t come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you’re not trying hard enough.
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
You do a period of go-karting until you’re at the age of qualifying for a ride in a ‘school-kart,’ then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.
I don’t have many superstitions, just dumb things I don’t talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.
Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you’d better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.
The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can’t describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.
In racing, there is no question who is best – the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn’t going to like it, because it isn’t their style. Judging wine is very subjective.
Desire is the key to motivation.