Tom Kristensen Quotes:

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Winning, Missions

I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Years, Racing, Trying

I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Humble, Thinking, Japan, Debut, Financial Support

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Team, Race, Better Person, Great Race

Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

source: - "Off the clock: Tom Kristensen interview". Interview with Eric Thompson, www.nzherald.co.nz. July 23, 2011.

Topics: Winning, Average, Race, Great Events, Motorsports

The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.

source: - "Off the clock: Tom Kristensen interview". Interview with Eric Thompson, www.nzherald.co.nz. July 23, 2011.

Topics: Mean, Car, Tyres

Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Race, Years, Two, Two Weeks