Balance, or drivability, and ...

Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it.
 Carroll Smith

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Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.
 Carroll Smith
Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.
 Carroll Smith
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.
 Carroll Smith
The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.
 Carroll Smith