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"We will fight as long as we have gasoline. As long as we have ideals, money, courage, hands, arms, the air we breathe and blood in our veins."

Enzo Ferrari

(via forsurescuderiasf1)

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Interviewer: What would you do if you weren't an f1 driver?

Kevin Magnussen: I'd cry

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Blown diffusers are banned for this season but teams cannot unlearn what they learned, unfind out what they found out, unget to know what they got to know, unrealized what they realized and they are still searching for gaps in rules. (F - China 2nd P)

A lovely quote, thank you!

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if you want to win, hire a finn

yep!

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Q: Would you like to end your career at Ferrari?

Fernando Alonso: Yes, that’s what I’m going to do. It’s the best team in the world, there’s nothing above Ferrari.

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From the Drivers' Introduction by Children at the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix. I couldn't hear everything that Giedo said, hence the ellipses. 

Interviewer: What do you do when you need to use the restroom in the middle of a race?

Giedo van der Garde: ... I had that once and I tried to let it go in the pitlane, and it was not a nice feeling...

Interviewer: Were you caught? Did anyone see you that one time?

Giedo: Well, it was on the podium, so I think everybody saw that it was a little wet.

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Team Radio: Stay off the kerbs

Adrian Sutil: No KERS?!

Team Radio: KerBBBBs, kerbs, as in the side of the circuit.

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Hahaha loved these!

Ok so there is a collection of insane quotes of Slovak and Czech commentators of F1 GPs and I translated some of them because I just can’t keep it to myself.

Well if it will be raining like this for the whole practice, we will have to chat about women probably. (Tomáš Richtr - Belgium 2012)

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The grand world we live in when we’re in F1 is less important than the human relationship between us.

Felipe Massa in a joint interview with Fernando Alonso for Sportweek (x), kindly translated by Lily.

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Q: What did you learn today?

Kimi Raikkonen: Different things.

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“It was really emotional to drive along the streets of Rio at such a special event in front of people who usually only get to see me at the end of the season at the Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo. The emotion I felt and all the support I could sense around me will be an extra motivation to begin the season well! At the end of the straight there was a very fast bend that allowed me to go flat out and get close to 300kmh. But halfway along that straight I could see the flash of the radar cameras: if we consider the fact that I was going about 12 times too fast, I fear I might be getting a rather hefty fine..”

Felipe Massa on driving in Rio (Ferrari.com)

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Welcome to the goldfish bowl.

Kimi Raikkonen on being photographed as he enters his ride back from a sponsor function in Finland. (x)

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Q: There are those drivers who train intensively, for example Jenson Button with his triathlons, or Mark Webber with his biking. You don’t appear to be that kind of person…

Kimi: You don’t know that - you don’t know what I do! I do my thing, but I have no interest to tell!

Q: Does it surprise you that you are still Ferrari’s last world champion?

Kimi: Ha! Yes it’s nice. But it will change one day. Maybe this year, maybe next year!

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Journalist: "Seb, what are your plans for world domination this year?"

Vettel: "I'm German but I didn't say that. I have no moustache."

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Sebastian: 'On my left is Gerhard Berger: my boss.'

Gerhard: 'On my right is Sebastian Vettel: very expensive, but doing well.'

(From the 2007 F1 Season Review DVD)

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Unfortunately, with very few exceptions, Formula 1 is not a poor man's sport.

Trevor Carlin (x)

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During a three-day test at Mugello in September 2000, Kimi Raikkonen tested a Sauber for the first time. Michael Schumacher from Ferrari was also driving on the track.

"Of course Schumacher stopped by to ask: 'Who is this driver who is testing for you?'" Jacky Eeckelaert (Kimi's race engineer in 2001) remembers.

"When I replied that it’s Kimi Räikkönen, Schumacher said: 'He can be fast, he can be fast.'"

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