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Racing amuses me.
The client is not always right.
I build engines and attach wheels to them.
The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.
I believe most things can be said in a few lines.
Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.
One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.
Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.
The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.
It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.
I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.
But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.
I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.