18 Quotes by Carroll Smith

Parts DO NOT BREAK - we break them.

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

Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

In order to win, you have to be aggressive – with your car, with the racetrack, and with the competition. But you don’t have to be stupid about it.

Nothing is ever in such short supply at a race track as time. It doesn’t seem to matter whether we are at the track for a race meeting or for testing – there is never enough time.

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

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

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

Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience – nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.