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When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.

~Allan Mcnish

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I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

~Allan Mcnish

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I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything - I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.

~Allan Mcnish

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It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.

~Allan Mcnish

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My very first car was a grey Alfa Romeo Alfasud, which I got in 1987. But, in our family, all cars were for sale - so they might be there in the morning and were gone at night. In the mid-90s, I joined Porsche and the Carrera was the car, and the Carrera 4S was the one they gave me. As a wee boy from Dumfries, I couldn't believe it.

~Allan Mcnish

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What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.

~Allan Mcnish

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I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.

~Allan Mcnish

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It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

~Allan Mcnish

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I just feel we are extremely lucky that when we wake up, we get to go to work and do something we love. Honestly, we can't call it work. We're living the dream, really. If you start thinking about the dangers too much, it's time to stop.

~Allan Mcnish

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Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.

~Allan Mcnish

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Driver

Born: December 29th, 1969

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