Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime. — Carroll Smith Copy Share Image
We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver/engineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked. — Carroll Smith Copy Share Image
The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance. — Carroll Smith Copy Share
He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not. — Carroll Smith Copy Share
In order to win, you have to be aggressive - with your car, with the racetrack, and with the competition. But you don't have… — Carroll Smith Copy Share
If you have complete control over the damned thing, you're not going fast enough. — Carroll Smith Copy Share
At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating ... at all.… — Carroll Smith Copy Share
Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh… — Carroll Smith Copy Share
Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. — Carroll Smith Copy Share
Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster. — Carroll Smith Copy Share
The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought. — Carroll Smith Copy Share
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… — Carroll Smith Copy Share
There are lots of people out there who prefer tinkering to winning - it gives them a good excuse. — Carroll Smith Copy Share
Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to… — Carroll Smith Copy Share
