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

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One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.

Carroll Smith

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

Fed, Feds, Needs, Racing

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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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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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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.

Ability, Ideas, Nice, Thinking, Unassisted

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