Eddie Irvine Quotations

The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say.

If I wasn't me, I'd want to be me.

Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

Life is strange, but F1 is simply crazy.

NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles.

McLaren have a reliability problem, ... but an aggressive style of driving can also lead to faults.

Jenson has been beaten by all of them apart from Takuma Sato and Jacques Villeneuve .

There's no way Ferrari made a car that bad.

The young guys need a validation of beating Michael in a wheel-to-wheel race, which they will do now because they're younger, more committed probably than Michael is. I'm not saying Michael's not committed, but he's 36. Wheel to wheel, the young guy's going to win, I have no doubt about that.

It's annoying when you're trying to have dinner with your friends, and people come over constantly and ask for your autographs. When I was younger, I'd stand and wait three hours if I had to. I wouldn't think of butting into their conversation or anything like that. Loss of privacy is the biggest thing I don't like.

Okay. I've got three. Which one would you like to speak to first?

The history meant that someone like Todt would go work there. The history was what convinced Michael Schumacher to go there.