Jenson Button Quotes About Cars

Quotes about: Cars

• To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 320km/h, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.

  Jenson Button

  Rip, Car, Skins

• To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.

  Jenson Button

  Morning, Race, Car

• We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me.

  Jenson Button

  Car, Style, Different

• To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it.

  Jenson Button

  Car, Driving, Intensity

• In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public.

  Jenson Button

  Car, Cameras, Needs

• I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.

  Jenson Button

  Car, Giving, Might

• I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I'm 6ft and I'm 70kg so I haven't much fat on me.

  Jenson Button

  Moving, Race, Car

  Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

• I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don't think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can't get the car there I do struggle more than some.

  Jenson Button

  Jobs, Struggle, Thinking

• The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

  Jenson Button

  Car, Speed, Force

• When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.

  Jenson Button

  Car, Feelings, Able

• When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

  Jenson Button

  Fighting, Winning, Race

• A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

  Jenson Button

  Sports, Morning, Thinking

  "Button your lip" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2005.

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