“Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.”

“You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.”

“I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.”

“When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.”

“Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.”

“I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.”

“I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.”

“What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.”

“So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.”