Carroll Smith Quotes

• 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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  Cheating, Successful, Effort

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

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  Suficiente, Ifs

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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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  Trying, Reliability, Wasting Time

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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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  Drawing, Important, Wheels

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• El piloto de carreras necesita alimentarse de otros pilotos de carreras.

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  Racing, Needs, Feds

  Carroll Smith (1996). “Drive to Win: The Essential Guide to Race Driving”, Motorbooks International

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

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  Problem, Cures

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

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  Car, Doe

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• Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.

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  Nice, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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.

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  Sacrifice, Order, Motor Racing

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

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  Winning, People, Giving

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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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  Mistake, Ideas, Development

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

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  Axes, Racing, Rotation

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• La potencia vende coches y el par gana carreras.

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  Winning, Race, Torque

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• Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it.

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  Motor Racing, Important, Balance

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

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  Ignorance, Clouds, Visibility

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• 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.

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  Stupid, Winning, Order

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

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  Moving, Forethought, Bits

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• 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.

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  Race, Track, Matter

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• El precio para los hombres en movimiento es la colisión ocasional.

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  Men, Racing, Occasional

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