20 Quotes by Scott Speed

Naturally, I want to show up well against my teammate.

But it's something that was a huge character builder, when you can walk around the racetrack and still perform wearing diapers and have self-dignity.

I love a party. After winter testing mainly in Europe, I love the warm weather.

Fortunately, we have great tires for this type of race. The surface of these slick Cooper A1 tires can become almost gel-like with the high track temperatures, and the way that they 'squash' into the track surfaces really helps with grip and cornering.

Formula One comes to America once a year. I think that is the fact that's going to limit the exposure here. Formula One's not big in America to the major public. For any driver growing up, it's a dream to make it to Formula One. It was a dream of mine as a kid. Fortunately I'm living it now.

It is a tremendous honor to be called onboard by Rick to lead A1 Team USA into Brands Hatch. I am very excited to carry the American flag into competition and will do my best to represent the U.S.

I was very happy with our early progress today, we were able to move up from 17th place into fifth and I was making a move to pass two cars ahead of me. Something happened where they collided and I was unable to avoid their collision. The damage to our nose cone was too extensive to continue. It's a real shame as I was very confident we could succeed today.

It definitely has less horsepower and has a different power band. It's going to require a different driving style, carrying more speed through the corners as you feel the difference when you drive out of them.

We had to replace a rear shock on the car, ... The car was getting faster as qualifying went on but we just ran out of time.