43 Unrepeated Quotes From Dario Franchitti | Status Free Download
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It's a big misconception that racing drivers aren't fit. My trainer, who used to be a professional triathlete, equates the fitness level of the drivers to triathletes.
— Dario Franchitti
Cart is not as sanitised as formula one. You just get in the car and get on with it. And it is more fun.
— Dario Franchitti
You think about the dangers, you accept them and you go about your job, it is only if you start to think about it too much in the car that you'd have a problem.
— Dario Franchitti
I have my three pace cars, I have two Corvettes and a Camaro from three years, I have one 65 Sport Fury pace car from the year that Jimmy Clark won. But Porsches and Ferraris are the main thing.
— Dario Franchitti
I am proud of what I was able to do, the races I was able to win and the championships, but that had as much to do with the teams and the people I worked with as well. Its not something you just do on your own; it's a whole army.
— Dario Franchitti
I think my passion is really more towards older cars, but I think if I said Ferrari or something like that, Id say their brands are really it. Whether its cars I own, probably Ferrari F40 or Porsche Carrera GT.
— Dario Franchitti
I absolutely don't regret going to Nascar and I'm not finished with it. I intend to be back one day.
— Dario Franchitti
It's a pretty stark choice: you either deal with the dangers of the sport or you get out of the car.
— Dario Franchitti
I'm not star-struck by fame. My friends are my friends, whether they are famous or not.
— Dario Franchitti
Always played all of the race games on everything from the PlayStation to the Xbox and PS2, and as advanced as PCs are now, it's amazing how realistic they can make the experience.
— Dario Franchitti
For IndyCar racing, we really need to get it out to a wider audience so people can see just how exciting it all is. Once you've seen it and realize what it's all about, then it can be quite addicting.
— Dario Franchitti
Then realising and being told that I wasn't going to be able to race anymore, that was a whole different stage. It's that old thing of you don't know what you've got, right? Pretty quickly I realised how much I was going to miss doing what I do.
— Dario Franchitti
Formula One is what I want to do. But I will go there only if I do a good enough job to attract an offer from a good, competitive, team.
— Dario Franchitti
In Nascar, I was in a situation where I was out of my comfort zone.
— Dario Franchitti
I hope I can help the team improve their performance, and what that would look like, I guess, is one of the guys winning the 500 or the championship. If that happened, I would be a tiny part.
— Dario Franchitti
I always bump into people that Ive met. Not great friends, but if I bump into somebody Ive known and I wont recognise them. It can be embarrassing at times.
— Dario Franchitti
I stayed out of the Hollywood limelight wherever I could. That was never something I was comfortable with. That was something that had to be dealt with rather than something I wanted.
— Dario Franchitti
Mission Ignition' was really brilliant. Each show was made in a day. It wasnt staged, we made each show in a day, and it was fairly intense.
— Dario Franchitti
Im absolutely a car collector. Im a car fanatic.
— Dario Franchitti
When I moved over to the States full time it was a culture shock. I had a great life over there, I really did, but I was always homesick. I always wanted to get home whenever I could.
— Dario Franchitti
I didn't realise how tightly wound I was until I retired because I would think about racing pretty close to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I really focused.
— Dario Franchitti
I like relaxing, water-skiing on a loch, or playing with toys like bikes and helicopters.
— Dario Franchitti
The first big drive I did I bought an Aston Martin and drove it from London to Scotland and had a fantastic drive. The last thirty miles is really twisty road that I know like the back of my hand, and it was just wonderful to get behind and have a really fun drive again.
— Dario Franchitti
Some days I end up thinking I really wish I was in the car - ike the Sonoma test, the boys tested it and I really missed driving the car there. But there are other days that I dont miss it.
— Dario Franchitti
Racing is a dangerous sport, but weve worked very hard to make it safer. We always have, the drivers, the teams, the governing bodies, the tracks.
— Dario Franchitti
I get dressed in the same way. Its not a superstition, at least I tell myself its not. Its more a way of getting that brain in gear to do that same thing. I get in the car the same way. Even the guys who are strapping me in the car get their own brains ready to go to work.
— Dario Franchitti
Cars are my weakness, what can I tell ya? I like to buy cars.
— Dario Franchitti
You go from a touring car to an IndyCar, which isn't a great jump, and then you go to this big old heavy stock car which doesn't feel like anything you've ever driven before. All of a sudden none of the stuff you've learned in your career - like setting up the car or what the mechanics need to know - works any more.
— Dario Franchitti
I was a big 'Pole Position' fan. I've been playing games for a long time.
— Dario Franchitti
I think the hardest thing to reproduce, though, is the g-forces. When you turn a corner and all of a sudden you have three, four, maybe even five times the force of gravity pushing against your body, it's literally trying to push you through the side of your car. There's no way to duplicate that feeling.
— Dario Franchitti
I've driven with a few broken body parts over the years.
— Dario Franchitti
I'm Scottish. Both my parents were born there, but I'm very proud of my Italian heritage as well.
— Dario Franchitti
When I was a kid I was only interested in going fast and I still love that feeling of speed. But when you start to go racing, it's winning that's important.
— Dario Franchitti
I'm not going to be running round at the back of the grid, or even in midfield, just for the sake of saying I've been in Formula One.
— Dario Franchitti
I put myself under a lot of pressure when I was racing, all the time.
— Dario Franchitti
If I get tired, my concentration goes away. My decision-making isnt as razor sharp as it was. I will repeat myself; my memorys not great, I forget words.
— Dario Franchitti
Anybody that knows me knows that my job was making cars go fast, and mostly breaking them as opposed to fixing them, so it was good fun to get involved and to help the teams.
— Dario Franchitti
I think my love of cars came from my dad, when I was much younger. Before my dad spent all his money on my racing, he had some nice cars. And my grandfathers had nice cars.
— Dario Franchitti
Dad re-mortgaged the house and family and friends pitched in to help me get through that first year and after that, that was it. I won my first championship in cars that year - 1991.
— Dario Franchitti
Losing friends, it's the hardest thing that has ever happened to me and I still got back in the car after crashes. I'd get back in with broken bones and it just seemed easy, there was the drive to do it.
— Dario Franchitti
Id love to work with the team in IndyCar; I just wont be behind the wheel anymore.
— Dario Franchitti
I really thought my racing days were behind me but it is tough to give up something that has been a part of my life for so long and that I love so much.
— Dario Franchitti
Ive had a wonderful time, a great career. I wouldnt call it a career; it was what I loved to do. I never called it a job; its been an absolute privilege.
— Dario Franchitti
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