You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built.

Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.

— Cale Yarborough

Driving a race car isn't too far a cry from driving any other sports car, but driving one through Africa in the middle of…

— Jonathan Miles

So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

— Jeff Gordon

You get such a visceral thrill driving a race car. You think you've driven, and then you're like, 'Oh, I was doing something for…

— Tom Segura

“These efforts began in earnest on October 18, 2004, and, rather remarkably, four months later, on January 27, 2005, an entirely new kind of…

— Ashlee Vance

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

— Henry Ford

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

— Carroll Shelby

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

— Carroll Shelby

When I'm driving the race track, it's all about repetition.

— Helio Castroneves

People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a…

— Michael Schumacher

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.

— Picabo Street

It's basically the same, just darker.

— Alan Kulwicki

The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

— Ferdinand Porsche

I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

— Enzo Ferrari

It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

— Mario Andretti