Drive Quote by Alex Zanardi

Reaching F1 was always the ultimate goal, I suppose, ever since driving a go-kart my father had bought me for my fifth birthday.

— Lance Stroll

When you are a kid racing karts, you want to be an F1 driver.

— Robert Kubica

I thought I would be a go-kart mechanic - not an F1 driver

— Fernando Alonso

When I started go-karting at the age of six, I always dreamt of becoming a Formula One driver.

— Heikki Kovalainen

I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones…

— Lando Norris

Already in go-karts, I said, 'OK, that's what I really want to do professionally as a career, as a job.'

— Mick Schumacher

I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking 'that is what I want to do.'

— Lando Norris

I always wanted to be a racing driver. Even if it was not F1, it would be something else.

— Max Verstappen

I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I…

— Dax Shepard

I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

— Mario Andretti

I want to do everything possible that will make me go faster because ultimately I'm a racing driver and that's what we're here to…

— George Russell

In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four…

— Pastor Maldonado