You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.

The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career - either in stock cars or IndyCar - and he won't need a passport.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

What is golden is miles under your belt, miles, miles, miles.

The experts or the cynics say, "Oh, those were the good old days, that's when drivers were really drivers. They didn't have all these aids." You know what? What we had, we did the best with and when we got more we provided what was needed.