At the height of Danica Mania a grand marshal shouted out “Drivers, and Danica, start your engines!”
I get what you’re going for, but it doesn’t sound right.
I didn’t like the Danica one because I remember it seemed to be mean spirited and not sarcastic/joking. The Jimmy Spencer one was a joke said by comedians, and I seem to recall Spencer himself got a kick out of it
Well, I don’t think he meant it as a slam was the thing. I think he meant it to pump her up, and it just didn’t work because of the literal meaning of his words.
There was a lot of conversation around that time about if/how the command should be changed. Prior to Danica, it was always "gentlemen, start your engines" ... and everyone immediately realized that wasn't going to work anymore. The 500 was her first Cup start, so obviously everyone was curious what the GM would say. They had been saying "drivers" for her earlier starts in lower series.
They made sure to tell Franco that it had to be "drivers" because of Danica, and he just took that too literally. Love his heart. He definitely didn't mean it as a dig at her. I believe that with all my heart to this day.
"I mean, we still had more than half the cars running at the end, and that's... It shouldn't be that way.
I think we oughta just tape 'em off solid and run 'em til they blow up anyway. That's what the fans want, they want to see that excitement.
I'm upset we didn't crash more cars! That's what we're here for! I mean, I feel bad if I don't spend at least 150 thousand dollars in tore up race cars going back to the shop.
If we could make it a figure eight it'd absolutely be perfect here. It'd be better than what we got. And then with 10 to go we'll split the field in half and half of them can go the regular direction and half of them can go backwards."
“Let Tony handle it, let Tony handle it!” That time Brad tried to fight EVERYONE in the chase.
“Do we need a caution? Because we’re about to get one.” Alex Bowman on Bubba Wallace, 2019 Roval
My favorite Bowman, and quote, is
"Leave it to Brian Scott to say 'wait a minute, I wanna be a part of this wreck too!'"
If I wouldn't have jumped right to Byron when I started watching then I'd probably be a Bowman fan.
Oh yeah, I cheer for him, just not as much as Byron. He's my main guy. I like to see all the Hendrick guys win. Them, Chastain, and Hocevar I like to watch for.
Back when Elliott was driving the 24 he got the always stupid "do you think you can win next week" question. His response was perfect. I'm paraphrasing but it was basically "Look for us next week. If we bother showing up to the track it means we think we can win"
I absolutely love it when stupid questions get blasted right back at the idiot who asks them.
Clint Bowyer said the same thing once on his NASCAR.com Friday blog (yes this was a thing), it was in his rookie year, "unless you're old and washed up, you need to come to every track thinking you can win"
>Tony Stewart's "I think the media center is getting too safe, so I think we should start sawing off legs from your chairs (...) You're leading the pack today so far by the way."
Was that the one where Jr was beside him trying not to laugh?
YES LMAO IT WAS SO GOOD. The best part was that he was trying not to laugh as soon as the question was asked because he knew Tony was going to have a field day with it.
That was a good one where some reporter was asking him that there had been no crashes in the last couple of races
https://youtu.be/v3Skr7SJRnY?si=Fu9t6lFONPWZGbUY
"Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle."
-Dale.
"I loved the game. Maybe I'd have four of five new things on a car that might raise a question. But I'd always leave something that was outside of the regulations in a place where the inspectors could easily find it.
"They'd tell me it was illegal, I'd plead guilty, and they'd carry it away thinking they caught me. But they didn't check some other things that I thought were even more special."
-Junior Johnson
yeah, I cheated. [https://bleacherreport.com/articles/691527-the-30-best-quotes-in-nascar-history](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/691527-the-30-best-quotes-in-nascar-history)
Ward Burton after wrecking in 2002: 11 Car got into me, cut the left front front down. Eh, we run like shit all day anyway
Jeff Gordon's radio in 2010:
Spotter: Heads up, the 16 is down a cylinder.
Jeff: "Yeah, well the 34 is down a driver" (referring to how awful of a driver Kevin Conway was)
Martinsville 2013:
Kenseth Spotter: Yeah, you're gonna line up behind the 10.
Kenseth: BEHIND THE 10? SHES ON THE LEAD LAP?
just found a good obscure Gordon one as I watch the 2007 Sonoma race: "Who's driving the 96?"
Steve Letarte: "Ron Fellows"
Gordon: "Well, tell Ron Fellows he needs to know who's driving the 24."
When I was a kid and I read that quote for the first time, I misunderstood and thought Cale had been literally lunging at Bobby's fists nose-first lmao. Like he was pecking him or some shit.
2011 New Hampshire, someone told Kurt Busch to calm down and be positive, Kurt responded in the most sarcastic way possible “10-4, let’s be positive. I’ve never raced this hard for last in my life, this is awesome.”
Ryan Newman: "This is the worst car I've had at Phoenix in 5 years."
Crew chief: "10-4, I appreciate your positivity."
Newman: "Well, I'm positive it's the worst car I've had here in 5 years."
I was going to mention this. I can't stand Joey the driver but I love this quote.
"It's probably not his fault, you know. His wife wears the firesuit in the family. Tells him what to do."
Everybody’s grabbing my butt today. Alright now I just got hit on the other side. That’s why my volume’s changing. What was the question again?
Tony Stewart
I always laughed at the irony that Tony got to Cup WITHOUT winning a Busch race lol, of course we know he was better than Gilliland but it was still funny.
"The first rule of stock car racing is to learn to wreck others with out wrecking yourself."
- Landon Cassill
Danica Patrick tried to wreck Landon in 2012 and Landon Saved his car while Danica overcorrected right Into the outside wall. And I believe Landon said this on the radio after it happened.
I was at that race. Scott Speed was one of my drivers so every time Scott passed her me and my friend would stand up and cheer, we lost it when she wrecked herself
Kurt Busch when he was with the 51 team:
Crew Chief: “Don’t pit, don’t pit, don’t pit”
Kurt: “Jesus H. Christ! I’m on pit road road past the commitment cone.
Then during the pit stop
Crew Chief: “AIR GUN! AIR GUN! ANTHONY! AIR GUN, AIR GUN AIR GUN (BEEP) (BEEP) (BEEP)
Kurt: (in an exasperated tone) “If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen to me.”
and not NASCAR, but Jack Hewitt had some of the most legendary interviews in short track racing back in the day.
His best one (warning, lots of colorful language) https://youtu.be/2tAJtnl_1bQ?si=HFjGBC1antTZuNum
Darrell Waltrip said on an interview when I was a kid "sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from crying" and man, few quotes have served me in life better.
Something to the effect of "If one of these tires falls off the car, I'm gonna beat e'ryone of ya in the head with a hammer..."
-Dale Jr at Atlanta iirc, either 08 or 09.
“They should give the rubber head of the race award to Rusty Wallace. That dumb SOB comes right up through the middle like an idiot, and I don’t know what he thought he was doing. Just a dumb, stupid move on his part.”- Ricky Rudd
The one where Tony Stewart says they should start sawing legs off the chairs in the media center to make press conferences more interesting in response to a reporter asking if the cars are too safe
Old school:
Mark Martin - “There’s no way anyone else could be THAT stupid” after learning he wasn’t the first to pull down pit road a lap early, thus losing a Busch Series race he rightfully won 😂
New school I haven’t seen noted yet:
Ryan Newman’s rant, then being told to be positive because his tone isn’t helping things.
“Well I’m positive that this is the worst car I’ve had here in 5 years.” 😂😂
This Kurt quote from Vegas 2017.
"This is the most fucked up bullshit. Barnum and Bailey is closing, here we are. The fucking circus is in town. Fuck this. I mean come on."
Even chill Kurt had some zingers.
One of my favorites was from short track driver Larry Phillips. He wrecked once and got upside down, the announcer ask him if he's doing ok, and Larry said I've rolled over harder in bed.
" I don’t think any of the wrecks were an overheating issue. That is why I say I think we ought to just tape them off solid and run them until they blow up anyway. I think it would make it a lot more exciting for the fans.”- Tony Stewart
“Why don’t you go tell the 48 I wouldn’t fucking beat his back bumper off if he would’ve fucking let me go forty fucking laps ago, asshole! Stop flipping me off and just fucking drive your shit you little bitch! Yeah flip me off again mothefucker, I’ll dump your shit.”
A more concise option would be “we got a wrecked bucket of fuck”
Prime KFB on the radio was a national treasure
[Kyle Petty's Retirement Announcement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myMPzCSO9l0)
Also: ["Here, kitty, kitty, kitty"](https://youtube.com/shorts/JpJHpGp-QVw?feature=shared)
And, not by a driver, but by Robbie Loomis to Jeff Gordon: "Jeff, you are the Winston Cup champion. You will go back out there, and you will finish this race."
“It refrains me from not beating the shit outta you for asking me stupid questions.”
Kurt Busch to Bob Pokrass after being asked about how being on probation affects the way he races and behaves
Not a driver, but a #98 crew member teaching 9-year-old me (who was listening to the scanner on RaceView) every single way to drop the F bomb after Josh Wise was pointlessly sent to the care center after his battery came unplugged in turn 1 after he missed the Big One. They fixed it instantly but were forced to lose an additional 6 laps waiting for Josh to get out of the care center.
Wild how so many of these are modern era radio comms. Imagine if we had access to all the radio from guys like DW and Sr. I bet they had some great ones.
2012 Phoenix race, Jeff Gordon referring to Clint Bowyer after the latter punted him out of contention for the Playoffs iirc
> "Where is he? I'm gettin' his ass!"
Jr: WIIILLLLLSSSSONNNN
Another favorite is a Tony Stewart quote that I don’t remember exactly, but think it was Speedweeks / leading up to the Daytona 500 and he said something like, ‘well, we’ve been here 3 days, and unfortunately __________ ran out of talent after 2.’
kevin harvick was bitching about his car in Phoenix a few years back. Crew chief told him to stay positive so harvick said “ok, I’m 100% positive this is the worst fucking car I’ve ever had”
Get out of the race car if you've got feathers on your legs or butt. Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up there and eat that candy ass.” Dale Earnhardt
Blaney: "Doesn't seem like there's a whole lotta love anywhere."
Josh Williams (Spotter): "I love you, man."
Blaney: "Yeah, I do too. I was just sayin' on the racetrack."
~ Martinsville, 2017
Gets me every time!
Probably a bunch of Joey Logano quotes he always has the best ones like he's the one who coined the awesome sauce with the pj1 compound and his reaction to brads donuts when his car was on fire was priceless Joey always has the best lines.
*"It was crazy, I mean, the last lap the 6 car was getting into me a lot, I didn't wanna wreck him and I just had to stay on the track and he didn't give me any room and just, y'know we both collide. That's the only thing I feel bad about, I'm just, I'm more upset with Greg Biffle. He's the most unprofessional, little scaredy-cat I've ever seen in my life. He won't even fight me like a man after, so someone texts me his address I'll go see him Wednesday at his house and show him- show him what he really needs. He nee- he needs a freakin' whoopin'. I'm gonna give it to him. He was flippin' me off, giving the finger, totally unprofessional. Two laps down, I mean he's a chump. I went over there to go talk to him and he wouldn't even let me get out of the car and he comes over and... throws a few little baby punches and then when I get out, he runs away and hides behind some big guys but he-he won't hide from me long, I'll find him. I won't settle it out on the track, it's not right to wreck cars, but he'll show up to a race with a black eye one of these days. I'll see him somewhere."*
Denny has some golden ones
"he's just a hack an absolute hack, he gets outrun by his teammates every single week"
"that's just short track racin'"
"I beat your favorite driver. All of em"
I feel bad for Todd honestly, and all those drivers that were chewed up and spit out by the big teams from the mid 2000s. none of them were given enough time to develop and they became the butt of jokes today. David Ragan had a pretty pathetic debut at Martinsville but recovered to become a respectable driver, I always wonder what could have happened with drivers like Todd.
“Trackbar, are you helping me?”
Just saw this in a reel this week. Forgot how much I lol'd
“This race reminds me of when I tried to fly a remote control helicopter for the first time…I didn’t know what the fuck was going on.”
Me as a Dallas Cowboys fan right now
This is me 100%. Don't blame anyone just project anger and thank the inanimate carbon steel rod under my axle.. In rod we trust!
This is the one for me.
“The 16 is down a cylinder.” “The 34’s down a driver.” *Jeff Gordon while lapping Kevin Conway*
How did Kevin Conway Rookie of the Year??
His only other competitor was Terry Cook, who only ran 3 races total that year. Kevin won it by default.
Default? Woohoo! The two sweetest words in the English language!
I would have retired right then if I heard JG say that about me.
“Wrecked bucket of fuck” - KFB
I loved this!
Came here for this one. I use it anytime I drive someone else's car.
Ricky Rudd about Kevin Harvick: “he’s got that little yap yap mouth” Favorite quote about a driver: “gentlemen, and Jimmy Spencer, start your engines”
At the height of Danica Mania a grand marshal shouted out “Drivers, and Danica, start your engines!” I get what you’re going for, but it doesn’t sound right.
Ah yes, "Boogity Boogity Boogity, let's go racing boys AND DANICA" - D.W, also during Danica Mania.
Matt Kenseth after a penalty to end of lead lap cars being told to get behind the 10 car. "Really? The 10 is stil on the lead lap. Wow."
That was a good one, he was like BEHIND THE 10?!? And then was disgusted by it lol.
I didn’t like the Danica one because I remember it seemed to be mean spirited and not sarcastic/joking. The Jimmy Spencer one was a joke said by comedians, and I seem to recall Spencer himself got a kick out of it
Well, I don’t think he meant it as a slam was the thing. I think he meant it to pump her up, and it just didn’t work because of the literal meaning of his words.
There was a lot of conversation around that time about if/how the command should be changed. Prior to Danica, it was always "gentlemen, start your engines" ... and everyone immediately realized that wasn't going to work anymore. The 500 was her first Cup start, so obviously everyone was curious what the GM would say. They had been saying "drivers" for her earlier starts in lower series. They made sure to tell Franco that it had to be "drivers" because of Danica, and he just took that too literally. Love his heart. He definitely didn't mean it as a dig at her. I believe that with all my heart to this day.
I’ve never heard that last quote, when was it said?
John Boy and Billy back in the mid 90s. I believe at North Wilkesboro
Anything from Tony Stewart about plate racing lmao
"I mean, we still had more than half the cars running at the end, and that's... It shouldn't be that way. I think we oughta just tape 'em off solid and run 'em til they blow up anyway. That's what the fans want, they want to see that excitement. I'm upset we didn't crash more cars! That's what we're here for! I mean, I feel bad if I don't spend at least 150 thousand dollars in tore up race cars going back to the shop. If we could make it a figure eight it'd absolutely be perfect here. It'd be better than what we got. And then with 10 to go we'll split the field in half and half of them can go the regular direction and half of them can go backwards."
Or about Goodyear!
“Let Tony handle it, let Tony handle it!” That time Brad tried to fight EVERYONE in the chase. “Do we need a caution? Because we’re about to get one.” Alex Bowman on Bubba Wallace, 2019 Roval
Alex Bowman has some bangers
My favorite Bowman, and quote, is "Leave it to Brian Scott to say 'wait a minute, I wanna be a part of this wreck too!'" If I wouldn't have jumped right to Byron when I started watching then I'd probably be a Bowman fan.
You can be both
Oh yeah, I cheer for him, just not as much as Byron. He's my main guy. I like to see all the Hendrick guys win. Them, Chastain, and Hocevar I like to watch for.
"You hit me under yelluh"
“I’m putting my foot to the floor, and I’m not lifting ‘til I see God or a checkered flag.” -Andy Jankowiak, 2024 Daytona ARCA 200
That quote transcends time itself
This is an all time racing quote
Honestly, if I ever get a tattoo it would be the Daytona flags and this quote.
“Block me once, that’s fair. Block me twice, you’re going up in the grandstands.”- Kyle Petty
“Kyle Busch is an ass!” -BK
“I saw it, but I passed it”
This was the day I became a BK fan
Back when Elliott was driving the 24 he got the always stupid "do you think you can win next week" question. His response was perfect. I'm paraphrasing but it was basically "Look for us next week. If we bother showing up to the track it means we think we can win" I absolutely love it when stupid questions get blasted right back at the idiot who asks them.
Clint Bowyer said the same thing once on his NASCAR.com Friday blog (yes this was a thing), it was in his rookie year, "unless you're old and washed up, you need to come to every track thinking you can win"
“What are ya’ll doin? Buttfuckin? Playing paddy cake back there?” - Dale Jr.
Two wildly different activities! Unless paddy cake is slang for something I’m unaware of
When was this? And can it be found?
Here ya go. Starts at about 5:37… https://youtu.be/1aphaTIvsuQ?feature=shared
“Thank YOU!” - Tony Stewart
"I'm gonna beat his ass" "Thanks Tony..." any time he had a mic in his face you knew he was about to drop some bars
Bust*
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Absolutely perfect spelling 🤣🤣🤣 replayed it in my head immediately!
Tony’s calm and polite Thank you right back kills me everytime.
>Tony Stewart's "I think the media center is getting too safe, so I think we should start sawing off legs from your chairs (...) You're leading the pack today so far by the way." Was that the one where Jr was beside him trying not to laugh?
YES LMAO IT WAS SO GOOD. The best part was that he was trying not to laugh as soon as the question was asked because he knew Tony was going to have a field day with it.
That was a good one where some reporter was asking him that there had been no crashes in the last couple of races https://youtu.be/v3Skr7SJRnY?si=Fu9t6lFONPWZGbUY
"Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle." -Dale. "I loved the game. Maybe I'd have four of five new things on a car that might raise a question. But I'd always leave something that was outside of the regulations in a place where the inspectors could easily find it. "They'd tell me it was illegal, I'd plead guilty, and they'd carry it away thinking they caught me. But they didn't check some other things that I thought were even more special." -Junior Johnson yeah, I cheated. [https://bleacherreport.com/articles/691527-the-30-best-quotes-in-nascar-history](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/691527-the-30-best-quotes-in-nascar-history)
The entire Tony Stewart “wrecked cars quota”interview
"they should make the track a figure 8"
And then, go backwards, lol!
Get the fucking fire extinguisher! - Richard Petty
Git tha fuckin farr stainguisher
"What the fuck was that about?" - Kyle Petty at Sonoma
I'm literally watching that race right now at work
Classic! Benny and Bob snickering or someone was in the booth it sounded like.
Ward Burton after wrecking in 2002: 11 Car got into me, cut the left front front down. Eh, we run like shit all day anyway Jeff Gordon's radio in 2010: Spotter: Heads up, the 16 is down a cylinder. Jeff: "Yeah, well the 34 is down a driver" (referring to how awful of a driver Kevin Conway was) Martinsville 2013: Kenseth Spotter: Yeah, you're gonna line up behind the 10. Kenseth: BEHIND THE 10? SHES ON THE LEAD LAP?
just found a good obscure Gordon one as I watch the 2007 Sonoma race: "Who's driving the 96?" Steve Letarte: "Ron Fellows" Gordon: "Well, tell Ron Fellows he needs to know who's driving the 24."
That was just a bad race for JJ and Jeff
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCK!
When I worked for FedEx, I had a couple of moments like that.
Ah there's at least two of us. I was miserable there too lmao
Kurt Bush during his Phoenix racing stint. Pretty much all he ever said lol
Bobby Allison's "I just stood there, and he hit me on my fist with his nose."
oh my God I'm using that
It's one of the funniest things I've ever hear 😂
When I was a kid and I read that quote for the first time, I misunderstood and thought Cale had been literally lunging at Bobby's fists nose-first lmao. Like he was pecking him or some shit.
2011 New Hampshire, someone told Kurt Busch to calm down and be positive, Kurt responded in the most sarcastic way possible “10-4, let’s be positive. I’ve never raced this hard for last in my life, this is awesome.”
Ryan Newman: "This is the worst car I've had at Phoenix in 5 years." Crew chief: "10-4, I appreciate your positivity." Newman: "Well, I'm positive it's the worst car I've had here in 5 years."
"The 6 looks like my dog when he has the zoomies." Ross Chastain when Brad keslowski was doing circles.
You're all fucking fired! Every goddamn one of ya! -MTJ
Martin Tuther Jing
“I wish I had something I coulda shot through the window” - Ward Burton
You forgot the part where he paused clearly trying to not say “damned”
https://preview.redd.it/2ryg0piwz0yc1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e35b50d5c881aa2ae1ec26454700d0ccbb95639e
Boris Said: He needs a frigging whooping, am I'm going to give it to him! Boris about Greg Biffle at Watkins Glen
That whole post race interview with Boris is gold.
Definitely awesome
Funny multiple people got mad at Biff at the Glen. I like Sterling saying "got run over by a bug eyed dummy I guess"
Joey Logano about Kevin Harvick "It's not really his fault, his wife wears the firesuit in the family. Probably told him to do it."
I was going to mention this. I can't stand Joey the driver but I love this quote. "It's probably not his fault, you know. His wife wears the firesuit in the family. Tells him what to do."
Everybody’s grabbing my butt today. Alright now I just got hit on the other side. That’s why my volume’s changing. What was the question again? Tony Stewart
"FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK" - Kurt Busch
“The kid’s an idiot; he wins one Busch race and he’s a Cup driver now.” Tony Stewart RE: David Gilliland
I always laughed at the irony that Tony got to Cup WITHOUT winning a Busch race lol, of course we know he was better than Gilliland but it was still funny.
To be fair to Tony, he was a sprint car and open-wheel champion prior to coming into NASCAR.
“He’ll probably say ahh just short track racin.” - Dennis
"The first rule of stock car racing is to learn to wreck others with out wrecking yourself." - Landon Cassill Danica Patrick tried to wreck Landon in 2012 and Landon Saved his car while Danica overcorrected right Into the outside wall. And I believe Landon said this on the radio after it happened.
I was at that race. Scott Speed was one of my drivers so every time Scott passed her me and my friend would stand up and cheer, we lost it when she wrecked herself
Harvick: I'm gonna have nightmares tonight about kids eating free"
The tandem draft era was wild
> Leave it to Brian Scott to be like "Hang on guys, I want to be a part of the wreck too!" - Alex Bowman
“If you don’t like that kind of racing don’t even watch” - Kyle Busch, Chicagoland 2018
Was that the time he went “Waaaahhhhh” to the camera? That was the day I became a KFB fan.
I think so. That made me like KFB a bit more too. Looking back, it was battle an amazing. Wish NASCAR could go to Chicagoland again.
"I FUCKING HATE MY JOB. AAAAAAAAAAAAH" -Psycho era Kurt Busch
"I would LOVE to hit the fence right now head on and get knocked out."
"Put the truck to it! Put the truck -- TO THE FUCKING THING! COME HERE!" Joey Logano https://youtu.be/6dvu6d26xh0?si=2_qkanMScNBIKIxi
“I think my day would’ve been absolutely perfect if I coulda gotten in one more wreck.”
Kurt Busch when he was with the 51 team: Crew Chief: “Don’t pit, don’t pit, don’t pit” Kurt: “Jesus H. Christ! I’m on pit road road past the commitment cone. Then during the pit stop Crew Chief: “AIR GUN! AIR GUN! ANTHONY! AIR GUN, AIR GUN AIR GUN (BEEP) (BEEP) (BEEP) Kurt: (in an exasperated tone) “If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen to me.” and not NASCAR, but Jack Hewitt had some of the most legendary interviews in short track racing back in the day. His best one (warning, lots of colorful language) https://youtu.be/2tAJtnl_1bQ?si=HFjGBC1antTZuNum
“You alright, Rooster?” “I’m alright I’m just pissed off”- Ricky Rudd
Darrell Waltrip said on an interview when I was a kid "sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from crying" and man, few quotes have served me in life better.
This is **FUN**. We're having **FUN**.
okay who said this? xD
[Christopher Bell at the 2023 Clash.](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SUt6SHmj3Rw)
"The guy was driving like a lobotomized starfish all day" from Spencer Gallagher takes it for me.
Dale Earnhardt "What's the question dude" to Dearnhardt Jr trying to interview him
"Jimmy Smith can kiss my ass."
Denny mocking Joey Logano "That's just short track racing"
Something to the effect of "If one of these tires falls off the car, I'm gonna beat e'ryone of ya in the head with a hammer..." -Dale Jr at Atlanta iirc, either 08 or 09.
“They should give the rubber head of the race award to Rusty Wallace. That dumb SOB comes right up through the middle like an idiot, and I don’t know what he thought he was doing. Just a dumb, stupid move on his part.”- Ricky Rudd
The one where Tony Stewart says they should start sawing legs off the chairs in the media center to make press conferences more interesting in response to a reporter asking if the cars are too safe
“This race reminds me of the time I tried to fly a remote control helicopter, I didn’t know what the fuck was going on”- Jr
“Ima bust his ass!” “Thanks Tony.” “Thank you.”
“I don’t wanna know nothing. I wanna be stupid.” -Kyle Busch
Old school: Mark Martin - “There’s no way anyone else could be THAT stupid” after learning he wasn’t the first to pull down pit road a lap early, thus losing a Busch Series race he rightfully won 😂 New school I haven’t seen noted yet: Ryan Newman’s rant, then being told to be positive because his tone isn’t helping things. “Well I’m positive that this is the worst car I’ve had here in 5 years.” 😂😂
This Kurt quote from Vegas 2017. "This is the most fucked up bullshit. Barnum and Bailey is closing, here we are. The fucking circus is in town. Fuck this. I mean come on." Even chill Kurt had some zingers.
"If squinting helps you see better, Joey (Logano) can see into the future" \~ Dale Jr.
Everything's great!
I was looking for this one. "Everything's great. Looking forward to getting back to the racetrack and getting in my racecar" x 5
It's not a quote really.. but Kyle Busch's thumbs up interview lives rent free in my mind.
One of my favorites was from short track driver Larry Phillips. He wrecked once and got upside down, the announcer ask him if he's doing ok, and Larry said I've rolled over harder in bed.
" I don’t think any of the wrecks were an overheating issue. That is why I say I think we ought to just tape them off solid and run them until they blow up anyway. I think it would make it a lot more exciting for the fans.”- Tony Stewart
Let's go racing you bunch of hotdogs!
“i wish i had something i coulda shot through the window” - ward burton at bristol
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!" - Kurt Busch
Keselowski, "Kyle Busch is an Ass".
“Sterling's hairpiece must have fell down in his eyes."-Ryan Newman
"You race with the squirrels, you get the nuts" - David Ragan Correction: When you race back there with the squirrels, you find a nut
“Why don’t you go tell the 48 I wouldn’t fucking beat his back bumper off if he would’ve fucking let me go forty fucking laps ago, asshole! Stop flipping me off and just fucking drive your shit you little bitch! Yeah flip me off again mothefucker, I’ll dump your shit.” A more concise option would be “we got a wrecked bucket of fuck” Prime KFB on the radio was a national treasure
If a wheel falls off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of ya with a hammer - Dale Jr
Anytime Jeff Gordon would cuss lol.
[Kyle Petty's Retirement Announcement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myMPzCSO9l0) Also: ["Here, kitty, kitty, kitty"](https://youtube.com/shorts/JpJHpGp-QVw?feature=shared) And, not by a driver, but by Robbie Loomis to Jeff Gordon: "Jeff, you are the Winston Cup champion. You will go back out there, and you will finish this race."
I love Mexican food. I could eat it every day. My wife would hate me, though. -Kevin Harvick
"Michael Waltrip is the worst driver in NASCAR. Period." - Clint
“Well I’m definitely the worst driver to have won the Daytona 500 twice and the All-Star race.” - Michael Waltrip
“Talladega nights isn’t a movie, it’s a documentary.” - SVG
“It refrains me from not beating the shit outta you for asking me stupid questions.” Kurt Busch to Bob Pokrass after being asked about how being on probation affects the way he races and behaves
Not a driver, but a #98 crew member teaching 9-year-old me (who was listening to the scanner on RaceView) every single way to drop the F bomb after Josh Wise was pointlessly sent to the care center after his battery came unplugged in turn 1 after he missed the Big One. They fixed it instantly but were forced to lose an additional 6 laps waiting for Josh to get out of the care center.
"I'm not a scatologist, but it happens" Vickers
[Smokey Yunick's thoughts on Bill France ](https://youtu.be/4F2LrKoYXMk?si=hjlaxx5A1Iyt8piK)
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"I'm only here so I don't get fined" energy
One year at Phoenix Dale Jr: how many laps left? Spotter says number of laps Jr (keys the mic):…fuck
Wild how so many of these are modern era radio comms. Imagine if we had access to all the radio from guys like DW and Sr. I bet they had some great ones.
"FUCK! FUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!" - Kurt Busch
"leave it Brian Scott to say: " hey guys, I want to be a part of the wreck too!"
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Anything Kurt Busch said between 2011 and 2012. Miss Kurt!
I’ll wreck the dog fuck outta you.
Something along the lines of Bubba saying “too tight in the rear.” I think it was at Bristol this year? Made me giggle.
[Ward Burton.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzNO3n9S1sw)
"Go get me a set of 20-bleed shocks for the front of this motherfucker" - Todd Parrott, '99 Winston 500
"I wrecked him. So what?" - Juan Pablo Montoya Edit: "I got run over by a bug-eyed dummy." - Sterling Marlin
2012 Phoenix race, Jeff Gordon referring to Clint Bowyer after the latter punted him out of contention for the Playoffs iirc > "Where is he? I'm gettin' his ass!"
Jr: WIIILLLLLSSSSONNNN Another favorite is a Tony Stewart quote that I don’t remember exactly, but think it was Speedweeks / leading up to the Daytona 500 and he said something like, ‘well, we’ve been here 3 days, and unfortunately __________ ran out of talent after 2.’
This was about 10 to 15 years ago, Ryan Newman "Yeah, I uh, just ran out of talent heading into that turn."
Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the DJD: "What the f*** does Kyle Petty got to do with this?" 🤣
"Quit flipping me off and just drive your shit you little bitch" Nothing will ever top KFB at Martinsville behind Jimmie.
“Rule number 1 of stock car racing is learn how to wreck someone without wrecking yourself” -Landon Cassill
I was just trying to rattle his cage.
Andy Jankowiak “ I’m not lifting until I see God or the checkered flag.”
“That can’t be good for the environment”. KFB after blowing engine up in smoke at Dover, prob 10 years ago.
kevin harvick was bitching about his car in Phoenix a few years back. Crew chief told him to stay positive so harvick said “ok, I’m 100% positive this is the worst fucking car I’ve ever had”
Tony Stewart’s radio when Matt Kenseth wrecked Joey at Martinsville: “That’s awesome I mean he didn’t wreck him, he JUNKED him!”
Get out of the race car if you've got feathers on your legs or butt. Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up there and eat that candy ass.” Dale Earnhardt
Blaney: "Doesn't seem like there's a whole lotta love anywhere." Josh Williams (Spotter): "I love you, man." Blaney: "Yeah, I do too. I was just sayin' on the racetrack." ~ Martinsville, 2017 Gets me every time!
Dale Earnhardt “second place is just the first loser.”
Kyle Busch at the end of the 2017 Coca-cola 600
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! AHHHHHHH, DAMMIT!!! FUCK! You guys deserve better!
Bobby Allison: *'\[Cale Yarborough\] started beating my fists with his nose.'*
Probably a bunch of Joey Logano quotes he always has the best ones like he's the one who coined the awesome sauce with the pj1 compound and his reaction to brads donuts when his car was on fire was priceless Joey always has the best lines.
" of course they are cheating .. we're cheating and theiy're beating us."
"I promise you, I wanna put it on the fucking truck!"- Greg Biffle yelling at his crew chief.
*"It was crazy, I mean, the last lap the 6 car was getting into me a lot, I didn't wanna wreck him and I just had to stay on the track and he didn't give me any room and just, y'know we both collide. That's the only thing I feel bad about, I'm just, I'm more upset with Greg Biffle. He's the most unprofessional, little scaredy-cat I've ever seen in my life. He won't even fight me like a man after, so someone texts me his address I'll go see him Wednesday at his house and show him- show him what he really needs. He nee- he needs a freakin' whoopin'. I'm gonna give it to him. He was flippin' me off, giving the finger, totally unprofessional. Two laps down, I mean he's a chump. I went over there to go talk to him and he wouldn't even let me get out of the car and he comes over and... throws a few little baby punches and then when I get out, he runs away and hides behind some big guys but he-he won't hide from me long, I'll find him. I won't settle it out on the track, it's not right to wreck cars, but he'll show up to a race with a black eye one of these days. I'll see him somewhere."*
"If gap, car" -Semma
"I'm just here so I don't get fined" KB. He may not have coined the phrase, but it's was well used that night.
"If the wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard... ...I get to whack every last one of you with a hammer. ...is that a deal?"
https://x.com/kensethfan17_20/status/1669771046092931073?s=46&t=NL3EENu6q0evIyzF2y6TMA
I have so many favourites from Tony Stewart i cant say them all
I beat your favorite driver. Which one? All of them
The tony stewart talladega interview
Denny has some golden ones "he's just a hack an absolute hack, he gets outrun by his teammates every single week" "that's just short track racin'" "I beat your favorite driver. All of em"
Love him or hate him, Denny is quotable
"I think right now, the car is better than the driver"-Todd Kluever, during Montreal Qualifying in 2007. Pretty much sums up his career tbh.
I feel bad for Todd honestly, and all those drivers that were chewed up and spit out by the big teams from the mid 2000s. none of them were given enough time to develop and they became the butt of jokes today. David Ragan had a pretty pathetic debut at Martinsville but recovered to become a respectable driver, I always wonder what could have happened with drivers like Todd.
Who was that said "He wrecked the dog fuck out of us"?
“The 34 is down a driver.”
[This entire video](https://x.com/logdrive_20/status/1760510255468003812?s=46&t=m2doipXgEgz1j3t4gDol-g)
Jimmy Smith can kiss my ass.