tight like a dump truck

porsche80 - 04 June 2008 05:22 PM

"She was runnin' good, 'til she blowed up!"

Ah yes, good 'ole AJ. I always like this comment after Foyt IV crashed:

"He just done run out a brains"

Non-AJ classic sayings:

"In slow, out fast."

"Speed costs money. How much do you have?"

"There's no replacement for displacement" (more of a hot-rodder's saying)

another variation: "There's only one thing better than displacement: More of it."

I believe it was Prost who said something about "To win is to go the slowest fastest."
That's not exactly it, could someone please correct me?

Also on this:

Hitokiri2 - 28 May 2008 06:44 PM

"If you are reading this you are BEHIND me..."

I saw this bumper sticker on a car at the road course events I went to...awesome.

That reminded me of a sticker (not a racing phrase) on the back of a highway pickup - "If you can read this, I lost the trailer I was towing."

Jeff N - 03 June 2008 03:50 PM

"Second place is first loser."

Don't forget Ricky Bobby's corollary "but third place is pretty respectable"

Defensive Cheating- "that's were you know everyone else is cheating, so you have to cheat just to compete.

---Smokey Yunick...

I woulda thunk this would have been at the top of all 'our lists and posted before now....


"Gentlemen, start your engines!!!



Be it on TV or live at the track...it's sure been mine fer the last 50 years....

"Kerblammo"... thank you Hobbs.

"If there's not dirt in your beer, you are not at a real race track"

"If you can't win 'em, spin 'em."

"My drinking team has a racing problem."

"Eight wheels corner better than four." (numerous)

"He wrecked; he just didn't hit anything." (Buddy Baker)

"They're using the Mexican Speed Wrench on it." (Chris Economaki's definition of a sledgehammer)

Sir Jackie Stewart's summation of an incedent "It's another case of someone with no business whatsoever of being on a racecourse" I always loved that one.

"Just rattling his cage." - D.E.Sr.

westsideclay - 06 June 2008 12:44 PM

Sir Jackie Stewart's summation of an incedent "It's another case of someone with no business whatsoever of being on a racecourse" I always loved that one.

Do you recall who he was talking about?

"He's like a dart without feathers out there." Tony Stewart's assessment of David Ragan as a rookie

This was late in A.J. Foyt's career as a driver. He had just qualified for the Indianapolis 500. But, his speed was just tolerable. After you qualify, you go to end of pit row for official pictures and an interview by a track announcer. Announcer: "Well, A.J., how was the car out there?" A.J.: "It drove like a tub of $---!"

"It sucks" Kyle Busch, after winning the first CoT race when asked his opinion of the new NASCAR Spec Car.

bobcobb22 - 28 May 2008 05:31 PM

The famous quote from Le Mans:

"Racing...it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting."

Or the original from Caracciola: "To race is to live. All the rest is just waiting."

*random Hobbes mumbling and sound effects* lol

"If you're going that slow, you might as well bring it in an have a mechanic hit the gearbox with a hammer. It might not do anything, but at least it will give a reassuring clunk." Some commentator from EuroSport 2 during a GP2 Asia race replay I saw.

"If you can't fix it with a hammer, then you really are screwed." Same EuroSport 2 commentator during a different GP2 race after seeing a mechanic hammering on a suspension piece on TV.

The two above quotes are paraphrased, as I cannot recall the exact wording of the quotes, but they stood out to me the most lol