That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him

Mansell can see him in his earphone.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter.

There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be the way I made my living, because the form was dying commercially.