It's been my dream to race in F1 since I was eight. I don't see why that should change just because I've changed. It's a big challenge but I like to push myself. The accident has toughened me up and made me realise what's important. It's spurred me on to get to F1.

Billy Monger

Change Why Use

It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.

Alain Prost

Car Wit Talk

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

Alain Prost

Car Wet Understand

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

Alain Prost

Sad Good Attitude

Of course, when I was younger I always wanted to have the newest Air Force 1s but my budget wasn't too good back then! I always stuck with the white or black AF1s.

Alex Iwobi

Good Younger Young

When I first climbed into a go-kart, aged 13, I thought to myself: 'This is what I want to do with my life, and I want to drive F1.'

Alex Zanardi

Life Art Age

Americans are very patriotic and they want someone to support. In order to entice more fans, and to allow F1 to compete with Nascar and IndyCar, there needs to be an American driver.

Alexander Rossi

Pet Car Wit

I said it was my dream to drive in F1.

Billy Monger

T Said ID

It's been my dream to race in F1 since I was eight. I don't see why that should change just because I've changed. It's a big challenge but I like to push myself. The accident has toughened me up and made me realise what's important. It's spurred me on to get to F1.

Billy Monger

Change Why Use

When I said I wanted to get back racing my dream was to be an F1 driver. I didn't know how realistic that was going to be until I'd driven again.

Billy Monger

Wanted Want Until

We are in F1 and we want to fight against the best.

Charles Leclerc

Want T He

To be completely honest, I am obsessed with Formula 1 so in the off-season I would like to have just a few more races to still race in F1.

Charles Leclerc

Would Wit Us

F1 weekends are full of things and any time that you have five minutes, you need to use it as well as possible to calm down.

Charles Leclerc

Time You Well

F1 always feels unreal until you arrive and get your first seat.

Charles Leclerc

Your You Ways

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

Charles Leclerc

Time Age Young

Experience is always a plus, but I believe if you are good enough for an F1 seat, you are good enough from the year you arrive in F1.

Charles Leclerc

Good Experience You

My mental strength was definitely a weakness back in the karting days, and I've worked hard on that to be as ready as possible for whenever I had the chance in F1.

Charles Leclerc

Work Strength Men

I can't imagine voluntarily standing beside an F1 track in the rain, watching motorised wedges plastered in corporate decals zooming past at 500mph.

Charlie Brooker

Zoo Wed Watching

You can't have F1 without Ferrari - you just can't have it. It's part of the theme that is the red car, and a lot of it is to do with the colour.

Chris Rea

Car Art You

F1's ability to problem-solve is second to none and our ability to make rapid prototype parts is again second to none.

Christian Horner

Art Type T

Red Bull is an energy drinks company operating a team in F1, of course it doesn't sit particularly well when you are competing against iconic brands like Ferrari and Mercedes. We are happy to be perceived as a bit of a maverick.

Christian Horner

Pet Art You

The costs in F1 are extremely high, it is down to the regulators to control those costs through having stable regulations, every time you change the rules, there is a huge cost involved.

Christian Horner

Times change, things move. F1 used to have customer cars years ago. You could buy a car from March or from Ferrari and go racing.

Christian Horner

I think F1, ultimately, is man and machine at its absolute limit. It is modern day chariot racing.

Christian Horner

F1 is a very strong business and it's got enormous heritage.

Christian Horner

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

Damon Hill

Formula One was just cool. I loved racing, all types of racing, but from a young age, Formula One was the noise and everything, and that's what I was drawn to. I already knew when I was younger, the coolest guys are in F1... not that NASCAR drivers aren't cool, but that was always what I had in my head!

Daniel Ricciardo

I've learned what F1 is like, and it is an extremely competitive sport on and off the track.

Daniel Ricciardo

Since I got to F1, and especially since I got to Red Bull Racing, I said, 'I don't want to have any regrets. I've got a chance now in a top team. I want to leave it all on the table.'

Daniel Ricciardo

Being an F1 driver is a crazy job but not what everyone expects. My year consists of 20% driving and 80% media, marketing, and travel.

Daniel Ricciardo

I like high speed corners, but with the F111, it is taking a little time to build up to that.

Daniel Ricciardo

In World Series, everything is a bit slower than F1. But each time I sit in the car, whether it is World Series or F1, once I am in the cockpit, I am mentally prepared for what the car is. I don't have to physically drive it to remember what it is doing.

Daniel Ricciardo

It's easy to get into the competition of F1, and you are never going to win every race even though you want to. So when you're not winning, you want to win, so you're not that happy. But you have to look at the big perspective, and I am very fortunate to be one of 22 in the world to do this.

Daniel Ricciardo

I don't think really we need to race in F1 just to risk your life, or to be in danger is nice for the people. I don't think it's really like that.

Felipe Massa

Since he sold his team, Eddie Jordan has had nothing to do with F1 except for what he says in the press!

Felipe Massa

I was always interested in maybe being in Formula E as I said many times when I was still racing in F1.

Felipe Massa

Honestly, I think they need to work to improve the categories. If the driver goes from the go-kart to F3 one year and then to F1, why do we have GP3, GP2?

Felipe Massa

I am one of the best to have raced in F1. I am probably not fastest in qualifying, or the wet, but I am 9.5 in all areas. I try to benefit from that.

Fernando Alonso

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

Fernando Alonso

When I joined F1, I was 19 years old, full of energy.

Fernando Alonso

It is true - maybe with five or seven points more, I could be five times world champion. But on the other hand, I could have zero world championships, and zero wins or zero podiums, because F1 is an extremely competitive environment. So I just take the positives, and I am happy with my achievements.

Fernando Alonso

I am a very competitive person in everything. Not only F1 but in everyday life.

Fernando Alonso

If you run a business, and I see F1 as a business, if you have to go back every five weeks saying 'oh, I need another two million', it gets old pretty quick. Then the trust is lost.

Guenther Steiner

I feel that I'm in good company behind the wheel of the Williams FW08C. It was the first F1 car to be driven by the great Ayrton Senna, and it won the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix.

Guy Martin

Golf is just for fun. I have no time to be a pro golfer, not even after F1. I think it's too late and I'm too old to learn now. Golf is just a hobby and maybe I can improve a little bit more.

Heikki Kovalainen

I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.

Heikki Kovalainen

F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad.

Jacques Villeneuve

I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power.

Jacques Villeneuve

Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it's a video game, and it's not. It is very, very dangerous, and it's tough.

Jacques Villeneuve

I think it was wrong to take the decision to slow F1 down. It was much better in my day, when it was already a lot safer than it had been in the '70s and '80s, but you could still drive crazy fast.

Jacques Villeneuve

You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1.

Jean Alesi