Mario Andretti
✓ Source-basedfallingItalian-American racing driver (born 1940)
Mario Gabriele Andretti is an American former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1968 to 1982, and IndyCar from 1964 to 1994. Andretti won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1978 with Lotus, and won 12 Grands Prix across 14 seasons.
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Mario (left) and his brother Aldo at the 2007 Indianapolis 500 pole day
Andretti in 1970.
A replica of Andretti's 1969 Indianapolis 500-winning Brawner Hawk at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum
Andretti driving the Lotus 63 at the 1969 German Grand Prix.
Andretti and Colin Chapman at the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix
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The visas came through in 1955, when I was 15. That June, we sailed for New York aboard the Conte Biancamano.
"Coming to America -- In the Fast Lane," "House Call," "Mansion," The Wall Street Journal (3 August 2018), M1
The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe.
Of course now that I am retired I see it from a totally different perspective, the bad days just don't look so bad to me, and I try to share that with Michael.
Super Speedway. Dir. Stephen Low. Perf. Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti. DVD. Openwheel Productions Inc., 1997..
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About this person
Mario Gabriele Andretti is an American former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1968 to 1982, and IndyCar from 1964 to 1994. Andretti won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1978 with Lotus, and won 12 Grands Prix across 14 seasons. In American open-wheel racing, Andretti won four IndyCar National Championship titles and the Indianapolis 500 in 1969; in stock car racing, he won the Daytona 500 in 1967. In endurance racing, Andretti is a three-time winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring.
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