Quotes of the Week

"Instead of copying all the ideas from A1GP, just buy me out! Everything we are is what Formula One is trying to be." Tony Teixeira, chairman of A1 GP, commenting that Formula 1 pilfered A1GP's ideas; like using a single tire supplier, similar specification engines, and the Force India-style concept of national team pride.

“I tried to help with the management buyout. They should have taken what I offered. It was a very good offer for everybody concerned. It gave them complete protection but they wanted to do things on their own. Now all we can do is hope and pray! I don’t think anybody knows what is going to happen with Honda. It is up to them to make up their bloody minds. The silly thing is we have got Bruno [Senna] wanting to drive. It would be fantastic for everybody to have the name Senna back in F1. If we lost a McLaren or Ferrari or somebody like BMW, people would wonder what’s going on. But I don’t think that will be the case with Honda. They didn’t do too much last year, did they?" Bernie Ecclestone, President and CEO of Formula 1 Management and Formula One Association

"I've got it parked within the white lines; pit it." Michael Waltrip, NASCAR driver, Michael Waltrip Racing, shouted angrily to his rattled pit crew during the Stater Bros. 300 Nationwide race as their car faced completely backwards after Brandon Whitt's Ford hit Michael Waltrip's Toyota as he was pulling into his pit stall. The team collected themselves and performed a four tire stop on their car facing backwards.

"Drew has brought magic to the team. His dad was a coach and he played real competitive sports in high school, so he knows how to build a team, he knows how to capitalize on the energy within a team and we needed that. We had all the right people with the right skill sets on the team, but we just need somebody to create the magic and Drew has done that." Team owner Jack Roush on Matt Kenseth's new crew chief Drew Blickensderfer who is 2-for-2 in wins.

“Absolutely not!" he told us about the possibility of purchasing Honda. “Far too many people, far too expensive, too much debt, massively cancerous infrastructure, a team born for the completely wrong reasons, BAT pouring money out of the sky, it was completely the wrong philosophy. We are the other way, our philosophy is the smallest number of the best possible people. Honda’s (philosophy) seems to be the greatest number of maybe the best people they can get but they certainly have a massive number of people that we wouldn’t even contemplate." Peter Windsor, soon to be team owner of the newest squad to join pitlane next season, USF1, on Wind Tunnel Sunday night.