Quotes

“I can’t drive any slower.” – Lewis Hamilton to Mercedes, after his engineer repeatedly told him to manage his tyres in the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix

“Leave me alone. I know what I’m doing.” – Kimi Raikkonen

“I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.” – Graham Hill

“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, ‘Okay, this is the limit’. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.” – Ayrton Senna

“What motorsport has given to me in more than 30 years, I have loved every moment of it, good and bad.” – Michael Schumacher, on announcing his first retirement in 2006

“Not bad for a number two driver!” – Mark Webber, after winning the 2010 British Grand Prix

“As in real life, there are a few cucumbers on the road.”  – Sebastian Vettel on Narain Karthikeyan after the 2012 Malaysian Grand Prix

When asked, “Why does Michael [Schumacher] have a funny shaped helmet?”, Eddie Irvine responded, “He’s German, he’s got a funny shaped head.”

“I have a problem in the car. I don’t know what it is.” – Michael Schumacher, before retiring with a fuel pressure problem at the 2012 Monaco Grand Prix

“I’m Michael Schumacher. I don’t need to test my driving ability” – Michael Schumacher