Carroll Smith Quotes

18 quotes in 284 categories

• The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.
• Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.
• The price for men in motion is the occasional collision...
• At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating ... at all. Of…
• You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it.
• 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…
• He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.
• Nothing is ever in such short supply at a race track as time. It doesn't seem to matter whether we are at the track for…
• Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.
• Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top…
• 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 where…
• There are lots of people out there who prefer tinkering to winning - it gives them a good excuse.
• Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.
• If you have complete control over the damned thing, you're not going fast enough.
• The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.
• The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.
• Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason…
• Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

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