When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.
My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.
It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.
But I plan on dedicating specific training to track this winter for the next racing season.
No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.
I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it.
It makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today.
Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.
The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.
I am a motorbike fanatic - always have been. It's actually what I wanted to do before I got into motor racing.
I've always had a fascination with cars and racing, not that I've ever competed.
Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.
On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.
I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.
Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.
Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.
When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
