Carroll Smith

He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.

— Carroll Smith

The price for men in motion is the occasional collision...

— Carroll Smith

Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.

— Carroll Smith

The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.

— Carroll Smith

The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.

— Carroll Smith

If you have complete control over the damned thing, you're not going fast enough.

— Carroll Smith

Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

— Carroll Smith

Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

— Carroll Smith

In order to win, you have to be aggressive - with your car, with the racetrack, and with the competition. But you…

— Carroll Smith

Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you…

— Carroll Smith

At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating ...…

— Carroll Smith

The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.

— Carroll Smith

You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it.

— Carroll Smith

There are lots of people out there who prefer tinkering to winning - it gives them a good excuse.

— Carroll Smith

There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first...being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to…

— Carroll Smith

Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the…

— Carroll Smith

We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver/engineer I ever…

— Carroll Smith

Nothing is ever in such short supply at a race track as time. It doesn't seem to matter whether we are at…

— Carroll Smith

Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.

— Carroll Smith