Mario Andretti
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - MAY 27: (L-R) Marco Andretti, driver of the #26 Team RC Cola Chevrolet shares a laugh with his grandfather Mario Andretti prior to the start of the IZOD IndyCar Series 96th running of the Indianpolis 500 mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 27, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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I was a good race driver, but I don’t know that I was a great race driver ... I made the decision to become a businessman instead of a race driver when I became a Chevy dealer. Jim McGee had asked me to test at Indy, to drive Indianapolis in fact. I wasn’t able to do it, and Mario Andretti took the test in that car. Mario went on to be one of the greatest race drivers of all time. I took the business route.
He came over here, and immediately he was a factor
I just did a commercial with Mario Andretti, and I’m in a SpeedoMore quotes »
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Father’s Day Reading: Gentlemen, Start Your Kindles
The book is written by Michael Argetsinger and has a foreword by Mario Andretti. BOOKS about cars and motorsports can be very specific, zeroing in on a single model, a single innovator or a single racecourse. And they can be very broad, covering the automobile 4:18 PM from The New York Times Read more »
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Revved up and ready to go
Rock stopped by Belle Isle for a ride with racing legend Mario Andretti, taking time to chat with Team Penske ace Helio Castroneves. Three-time Indy 500 champ Dario Franchitti stood outside the Detroit Yacht Club doing interviews in a short-sleeve racing shirt, 2:16 AM from Detroit Free Press Read more »
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Terry Foster: Tag along with Mario Andretti provides thrill of a lifetime for Detroit News columnist
-- Let's get this out of the way. Mario Andretti is the man. And on Thursday, I had the thrill of a lifetime. Riding with Andretti in a two-seat Indy-car … going 120 miles an hour down the straightaway and slamming into the corners with the thrust of a rocket 1:20 AM from Detroit News Online Read more »
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Marco Andretti races path paved by dad, a two-time Detroit Grand Prix winner
Grand Prix in 1990, then again in 1996 on Belle Isle's 2.1-mile street course. Marco, 25, grandson of legendary driver Mario Andretti, will make his third start at Belle Isle and hopes to have better luck than his first two — 17th in 2007 and 18th in 2008, from Detroit News Online Read more »
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The Andretti curse lives on
wall in the first turn and forcing the Andrettis to wait one more year since their last drive into Victory Lane when Mario Andretti won the 1969 500. Afterward, Marco Andretti was disappointed. "Servia decided to run two-wide at Indianapolis for two consecutive from KansasCity.com Read more »
