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Mario Andretti
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…
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sports · American racing driver (born 1940) · Formula One driver · racing automobile driver · also Mario Andretti, Mario Gabriele Andretti, Andretti
Born 28 February 1940 · Q171312
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2026· 13 entries
“It was maybe even more special then because you didn”
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“That is the biggest thing I saw with [Juan-Pablo] Montoya going to stock cars a few years ago. In a single seater, you”
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“decision. Four months later, the U.S. Auto Club”
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“probably the best thing that could have happened to us as far as stability.”
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“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”
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RACER - Racing News: Andretti counting on Nissan switch to be a power move in Formula E - RACER
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Road & Track: Mario Andretti, Bobby Unser, and the Most Controversial Finish in American Racing
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Andretti Global: Andretti Formula E Returns to London for GEN3 Era Finale Championship Fight
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The Times of India: Pascal Wehrlein takes title lead from Jake Dennis with London E-Prix win, puts Andretti driver second
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Public attention spiked: 3,179 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 942, with 1 article edits. Coverage that week: “Pascal Wehrlein takes title lead from Jake Dennis with London E-Prix win, puts Andretti driver second” (The Times of India).
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racingnews365.com: Jake Dennis eyes second Formula E crown after 'ball-busting' Andretti recovery
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Public attention spiked: 8,814 Wikipedia readers in one day, 9.4× the usual 942, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 3 entries
The Indianapolis Star: Mario Andretti on F1 team's approval, Michael Andretti’s exit and Colton Herta's future
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Forbes: Mario Andretti, Unplugged: ‘We Were Willing To Pay The Price’
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The Indianapolis Star: Mario Andretti offended by FOM's rejection of Andretti Cadillac bid: 'If they want blood, I'm ready'
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2019· 1 entry
“think[s] about all the times [he] should have won here,”
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2018· 3 entries
“I could never truly celebrate and I never will. It was an enormous jolt. You never really totally recover from [it].”
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“Unhappily, motor racing is also this.”
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Andretti said that "I could never truly celebrate and I never will
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2016· 1 entry
Admitted that the story was fabricated
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2008).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2006).
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1995· 1 entry
“lost [the 1995] race five times over”
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1991· 1 entry
And previously owning Andretti Global
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1988· 1 entry
Andretti finished fifth in the season standings, one spot ahead of Michael
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1987· 1 entry
With an Adrian Newey-designed chassis and new engines designed by Ilmor, Andretti picked up eight poles but converted them into two wins
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1986· 2 entries
And remained with Newman/Haas until 1994; his victory at Phoenix in 1993 made him the oldest winner in IndyCar history, aged 53, as well as the first driver to win a race in four different decades
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Michael placed second, beating Mario for the first time
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1984· 3 entries
15 years after the previous and his first sanctioned by CART
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But declined to be considered for a reserve role in 1986, effectively ending his Formula One career
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The team commissioned a new chassis, which became the Lola T800
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1983· 2 entries
Andretti joined the new Newman/Haas Racing team, set up by Carl Haas and actor (and former Can-Am team owner) Paul Newman
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Andretti worked with the team to develop the uncompetitive Lola T700 into a decent car
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1982· 2 entries
Andretti retired from Formula One with 12 wins, 18 pole positions, 10 fastest laps and 19 podiums
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Placing third in the standings with Patrick, amongst winning the Michigan 500
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1979· 2 entries
The team rolled out the Lotus 80, whose downforce overwhelmed the car's suspension, generating porpoising issues, and whose weak chassis popped out rivets while driving
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A new organization, Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART), set up the IndyCar World Series, which displaced the USAC championship
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1978· 4 entries
Won the FIA Formula 1 World Championship with _Retired Motorsport (1978).
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After achieving six victories, becoming the second World Drivers' Champion from the United States
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And Andretti won them all, generating speculation that Chapman had ordered Peterson to let Andretti win
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With Lotus, and won 12 Grands Prix across 14 seasons
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1977· 2 entries
The Lotus 78 was one of the fastest cars on the grid, and Andretti won four races, more than any other driver
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Finishing third in the World Drivers' Championship
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1976· 1 entry
Winning the season-ending Japanese Grand Prix and helping develop the 78
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1975· 3 entries
Andretti stopped competing full-time in IndyCar, instead driving full-time for the Parnelli Formula One team
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“we had our disagreements, but until things started turning sour near the end, we worked them out.”
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Andretti became a full-time Formula One driver for the first time
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1974· 1 entry
And 1975, both times finishing second to Brian Redman
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1972· 2 entries
And 1974, respectively, Andretti joined the latter full-time for 1975 after finishing runner-up in the SCCA Continental Championship
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And raced in Formula 5000 in 1974 and 1975
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1971· 3 entries
Andretti fell to ninth in USAC's paved track championship
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USAC split off its dirt-track races into a separate National Dirt Car Championship
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And entered seven out of 11 races, completing two
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1970· 4 entries
And the STP Formula One team shut down after one season
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Encouraged the team to make the sidepods even bigger
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And still the second-highest figure in history as of the 2022 season
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Andretti took his maiden podium finish at the Spanish Grand Prix with STP, driving a privateer March 701
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1969· 2 entries
Including the 1969 Indianapolis 500 and the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
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When he won his third USAC title and the Indianapolis 500
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1968· 2 entries
Andretti once again lost the title at the final race of the season at Riverside, but this time in a reversal of the events of 1967
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With Lotus, where he qualified on pole position
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1967· 2 entries
Won two of the three events that he entered
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Andretti lost the season USAC championship to A
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1966· 2 entries
Won five times (Cumberland, Oswego, Rossburg, Salem, and Phoenix), but finished second in the standings, behind Roger McCluskey
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Andretti won his second straight USAC title
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1965· 3 entries
Won once at Ascot Park, and finished tenth in the season standings
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Andretti's first full season with DVL, he took advantage of the team's new Brawner Hawk, a derivation of the Brabham Formula One chassis
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And 1966, also finishing runner-up in 1967 and 1968
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1964· 1 entry
The Doug Stearly team gave him a spot start at the 1964 Trenton 100
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1963· 2 entries
Andretti won three feature races at two different tracks, an afternoon race at Flemington and a doubleheader at Hatfield, after which reporter Chris Economaki told him that "you just bought the ticket to the big time
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And scored 29 top-five finishes in 46 ARDC races
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1961· 1 entry
They met when Dee Ann was teaching Andretti English in 1961.
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1960· 1 entry
Some teams continued racing at Indianapolis, including Colin Chapman's Team Lotus
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1940· 2 entries
Born 1940-02-28.
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To an Istrian-Italian family in Montona, Istria, Kingdom of Italy (present-day Motovun, Croatia)
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