Carroll Smith Quotes

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

There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first...being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go.

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

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

Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.

If you have complete control over the damned thing, you're not going fast enough.

The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.

There are lots of people out there who prefer tinkering to winning - it gives them a good excuse.

He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.

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.

The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.

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.

The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.

You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it.