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“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 course, like every successful racer, I differentiate between taking advantage of loopholes in the regulations, stretching the grey areas and outright cheating. In any given racing series I will not start the cheating. If someone else starts it, I will appeal to them and to the officials to stop it. If my efforts do not succeed, then I'll show them how it is done ....”

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

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

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

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

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Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

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

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