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Portrait of Bobby Rahal

Bobby Rahal

(1953) Formula One Driver

21 quotes in 91 categories

Bobby Rahal is a Formula One driver, best known for Engineering the Indy Car.

Quick Facts About Bobby Rahal

Born: January 10, 1953
Profession: Formula One Driver
Notable works: Engineering the Indy Car

About Bobby Rahal

Robert Woodward Rahal is an American racing driver and motorsports executive. As a driver, he won three championships and 24 races in the CART open-wheel series, including the 1986 Indianapolis 500. As co-owner of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, he won the Indianapolis 500 in 2004 and 2020 with drivers Buddy Rice and Takuma Sato, respectively.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Bobby Rahal

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

Happens

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You don't have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it's down…

About

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In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

Dice

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Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

Competition

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At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

Am

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I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in…

Feedback

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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds…

Age

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We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.

Advantages

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What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really…

Connected

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I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

Failure

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I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.

People

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We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we…

Last year

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There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes.

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I don't want people to remember me going through the motions.

Memory

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I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race.

Night

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The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say…

Fans

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The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team…

Motivation

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I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that…

Car

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Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of…

Able

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Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.

Competitiveness

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My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

Porsche

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