"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
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"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."
"Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does."
"And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race."
"Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position."
"With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is."
"And the first five places are filled by five different cars."
"Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record."
"Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!"
"There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first...being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go."
"Look up there! That's the sky!"
"Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest."
"And there's the man in the green flag!"
"And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill."
"And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself."
"The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander."
"That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year."
"As you can see, visually, with your eyes."
"Let's stop the startwatch."
"Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th."