Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races. - Carroll Smith

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I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist. It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way.

Carroll Smith

Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

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At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating. . . at all. Of course, like every successful racer, I differentiate between taking advantage of loopholes in the regulations, stretching the grey areas and outright cheating. In any given racing series I will not start the cheating. If someone else starts it, I will appeal to them and to the officials to stop it. If my efforts do not succeed, then I'll show them how it is done.

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

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

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We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver
engineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked.

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

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