The Season In Quotes

This says it all... check out our choice of the most colourful quotes of the 2008 F1 season.

This says it all... check out our choice of the most colourful quotes of the 2008 season. "We accept the stewards' decisions, but would like to add that neither Lewis nor Heikki impeded any of their competitors deliberately." - Martin Whitmarsh on McLaren's double grid-slot penalty in Malaysia. "I could do with a beer." - Lewis Hamilton on his over 20-second pit stop in Malaysia, which was compounded by his on-board water dispenser malfunctioning. "He tried to second-guess Fernando and vice-versa and damaged the car quite extensively and that was really it." - Ron Dennis on Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso appeared to brake-test each other in Bahrain. "We had to keep him calm by telling him that Hamilton was three-stopping and the race would come back to him if he kept his head." - Rob Smedly on Felipe Massa being rattled by Hamilton on his way to the Turkish win. "Raikkonen always looked like doing stupid and in the end he did. If that was the other way around, and it was a little Force India driver hitting the World Champion, then he would be facing a one- or two-race ban. We've asked the stewards to take a look and act accordingly." - Force India's Mike Gascoyne calls for Kimi Raikkonen to be banned after he crashed into Adrian Sutil in Monaco when the German was lying in fourth place "This is the highlight of my career. This will stay with me for a long time... it is the highlight of my life so far." - Hamilton on his Monaco win. "If I am going 300km an hour and lose control and hit somebody it is natural. But if I do it in a pit-lane, with a speed limit, with two cars stopped, and you hit them it is stupid. I saw the red light and chose to stop. Unfortunately someone saw the red light and chose not to stop." - Kimi Raikkonen on Hamilton after the McLaren driver crashed into him in the pit lane in Canada. "I'm just thankful to Lewis for choosing the Ferrari to hit and not me." - Robert Kubica on his Canadian GP victory. "There's nothing you can do that can distract me. You can keep on giving me penalties and whatever you want to do and I'll keep battling and try and come back with a result." - Hamilton warns the FIA after his French penalty. "It is by far the best victory I've ever had." - Hamilton on his British GP win. "Rude, arrogant." - Veteran F1 photographer Paul-Henri Cahier on Raikkonen after the Finn allegedly pushed on the grid at Silverstone. "All I know is that if it was the other way around then he wouldn't have got past. He didn't defend very well." - Hamilton on Felipe Massa after overtaking him during the German GP. "I had one of my best ever starts but Felipe had an even better one. I covered my ground on the inside. He locked up and then turned, I thought we were going to touch, so I slowed down even more. But he still pulled it off and I lost a place. It won't happen again." - Hamilton one race later in Hungary after being overtaking by Massa. "When things looked already finished with only two laps to go and then you just hear something and have a strange feeling in the car as the engine breaks down, for sure it is not a great feeling. I feel really bad, and not happy for what has happened." - Massa after his engine blew two laps away from winning the Hungarian GP. "It's fantastic, a great moment, something I've been targeting for many years." - Heikki Kovalainen after Massa's engine failure handed him the win. "Sutil kept his line and didn't lose time so I would be very surprised if we are penalised, but let's wait and see what the stewards decide." - Ferrari's Luca Colajanni admits what we all knew, it would be a hell of a surprise if the FIA penalised a Ferrari driver. "Ferrari do not get special treatment from the FIA. Ferrari work diligently with all the systems, they work with the FIA to try and improve things for the future. They have a good rapport with the FIA and they try and find solutions with the FIA. The fact they don't come out and criticise the FIA doesn't mean that Ferrari get special treatment." - Ross Brawn on Ferrari and the FIA prior to the Belgian GP. "I believe it was okay." - F1's Charlie Whiting on Hamilton's move to allow Kimi Raikkonen back in front at the Belgian GP. Hamilton was later penalised. "I believe I gave the advantage back. I honestly, hand on heart feel I did so." - Hamilton on the incident. "Not susceptible to appeal." - the FIA rejects McLaren's appeal against the penalty. "When I jumped into the car before the race they said: 'Now destroy them'. I was pushing like hell, they were looking forward, in that sense you could say we had the balls to do it today." - Seb Vettel on his debut win in Italy. "Unfortunately when we race on tracks where staging a circus or something else would be better, anything can happen, because the spectacle is supplied by the Safety Car. This is humiliating for F1." - Luca di Montezemolo on the Singapore GP. "If the Ferrari president is right about the Singapore Grand Prix being a circus then we have to be grateful to him for providing the clowns. After the weekend Ferrari had, their president should have shut up and kept his head down." - Bernie Ecclestone responds. "He pushed me a little bit close to the gravel and then I put two wheels on the gravel and he closed in and we touched. I was already on the gravel so I couldn't do anything and we touched." - Massa blames Hamilton after the two touch in Japan. "It was an inexplicable mistake by the two from McLaren, who actually expelled me from the fight for victory at the Japanese GP. If I had managed to get unharmed through the first corner, I could have won. But instead of leading I was again stuck behind slower cars." - Raikkonen blames the McLaren drivers for a lost Japanese GP win. "It's just a little bit of respect, you give each other room and then everything goes right, but if you don't for sure it's going to be an incident." - Seb Bourdais after he was penalised for Massa's 'lack of respect' in the Japanese GP. "I agree." - Fernando Alonso gives his view on whether Hamilton deserved to be penalised in Japan. He later admitted he hadn't even seen the incident. "This is another step to the Championship and towards my dream and towards my team's dream." - Hamilton after winning in China and taking a seven-point lead with one race remaining. "Lewis had a better car." - Massa concedes rival Hamilton was untouchable in China. "I didn't know that I was the magic rule in the championship and in the end, I didn't look for that." - Timo Glock after the Brazil when Hamilton overtook him to take the position that guaranteed him the World title. "I know how to win and I know how to lose." - Massa after losing the World title despite winning the Brazilian GP. "I didn't know I had it. I was shouting: 'Do I have it, do I have it?' and then someone came on (the team radio) when I was at turn one and they told me, and I was ecstatic." - 2008 Champion Hamilton on winning the World title.