Carroll Smith Quotes

United States, Racecar Driver
April 3, 1932 – 2003.

Carroll Smith was a successful professional race car driver, engineer, and author. Carroll's books are highly regarded among amateur race drivers and engineers. He was representative of the club racing spirit: learning a craft and bringing together several disciplines in order to participate in a dangerous and often misunderstood sport.

Also known as Engineer, Author

Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.

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Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

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- Sense
- Thing
- Reliability

The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.

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Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

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You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it.

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- Problem
- Cure
- Define
He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.

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- Work
- Car
- Better
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.

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If you have complete control over the damned thing, you're not going fast enough.

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- Control
- Thing

There are lots of people out there who prefer tinkering to winning - it gives them a good excuse.

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- People
- Winning
- Excuse
The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.

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