Top 40 Kevin Magnussen Quotes

I don’t like compromises. I will give everything.

If I had one wish, I would say to be born in the ’30s and be young in the ’50s and ’60s. It hurts my racing heart when I see things so far from what it was back then. I envy those guys so much.

I am not aiming to be unpopular. I am aiming to get good results, and sometimes you need to stick your elbows out to get those results.

I am living my childhood dream of racing in Formula 1 and I’ve put my whole life into achieving that dream so it is only natural for me to be giving absolutely everything I’ve got, to achieve success in racing and the day I no longer do that I will retire from racing immediately.

I obviously hope that I can continue my career with McLaren but that might not be possible and if it isn’t possible then I need to continue racing.

It’s frustrating that you only have one or two, maybe three drivers that you can root for who are winning.

You never reach a point where you feel completely ‘ready’ – there’s always more you can do. But I think every team and driver is going to be feeling uncertain going into the pre-season.

If you come to Formula One you have already proved that you are able to adapt and learn and be fast.

I’m lucky to have very close friends that I’ve had since childhood.

Maybe I am uncompromising on track. The stewards judge whether I’m fair or not, it is my job to extract the most from the rules and circumstances. I admit sometimes I go over the limit but sometimes I don’t and I get results.

I wouldn’t say I am the most popular driver among the drivers, but I don’t need to be. What matters to me is the results and what the stewards say.

I focus on the team and I block out all the outside media stuff, because it’s so irrelevant and uncontrollable.

When you go to club racing in Denmark, people spend money to buy a race car and go and race, and many don’t actually really have the money, but they spend it anyway because they love it and that’s why I like those kind of things.

I love my family, and there’s so many things in life I enjoy, but when I’m in the car there’s nothing else that means anything.

I’m a racing driver and I need to race, that’s what I do.

I don’t look at social media, I have some people who look after it so whenever I want to post anything I send it to those guys so I don’t have to look at the apps.

There’s a lot of things in Formula One that can stress you and it’s important to have good family and good support from home as well. I’m really glad that I have that.

I think I’ve benefitted a lot of times from having my dad as a racing driver and I don’t think I would be here if it wasn’t for him because McLaren probably wouldn’t have looked at me.

I think about F1 all the time… it’s just my passion.

I’m not getting penalised for pushing, I’m penalised for going over the limit of what’s legal and what’s within the rules.

I thought I’d become a welder if my racing career ended.

I grew up with my mum, so I’m very, very close to her. But I’m close to my dad as well, and we talk about racing a lot, as we share that passion. I guess that’s quite normal.

F1 has been my dream since I was a kid. I am here. That feeling of having achieved that and a step in my life’s dream of winning the championship – there is no way I wouldn’t work extremely hard – I put the time in.

What matters to me is that I get the most out of myself and my racing.

I didn’t go to school that much! I was racing go karts and testing nearly every day, so school wasn’t the first priority.

We share the emotions of driving race cars. It’s cool to have a dad who understands what you mean when you talk about oversteer or traction. But it’s not a help at the race.

I have fans rooting for me, all the other drivers in the midfield have fans rooting for them, and they never get to see that driver fighting for wins. Of course it would be a lot better if you had a broader range of drivers who were in the fight for wins.

I don’t want to die in a race car.

I think Stirling Moss represents everything that a racing driver should be and first of all, it’s passion.

I’d like to do a full season of IndyCar if I was going to do it I think. But whether I’ll get a chance to do that, I don’t know.

When I go to small races in Denmark, it’s what I imagined what F1 would have been like back in the 60s and 70s. After the 70s it became a bit different. But 50s and 60s at least, people were only there because they love it.

But amongst the drivers I don’t have friends at all. They are not my friends. It would never work to have a friendship, so I don’t make any effort to make friends.

Success to me obviously isn’t having accidents or getting penalties but finishing races as high a position as possible.

Haas is a small, but a very efficient team – I am having a lot of fun!

I love racing, I love racing everything really – karts, anything – so I do need to keep doing that. But the focus is on Formula One.

When you put your helmet on and you’re in the race, I find that’s just everything there is in the world.

I’m with McLaren, I’m contracted to McLaren. They might wish to continue, they might not, but before they take a decision I can’t really do anything. So I’m patiently waiting for them.

I don’t care what the other drivers think of me. They can say what they want.

With this opportunity that I have with McLaren, the way I look at it is if I can’t succeed straightaway with McLaren now and be good enough for them then I won’t ever be good enough.

If you’re in P10 and you’re getting caught from behind from P11 or the other way round… there’s that one point to gain… and there’s not really a lot to lose.