Jacky Ickx Quotes

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• In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
• I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.
• My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
• In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
• I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.
• And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes…
• I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
• The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you…
• The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.
• The margin between success and drama is fractional.
• In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
• But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
• Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
• Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event…
• To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I…
• What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
• That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger…
• Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his confidence. He was…
• Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees.…
• Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.

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