Mario Andretti

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Mario Andretti
Nationality	American
Years	1968 - 1972, 1974 - 1982
Team(s)	Lotus, STP Corporation, Ferrari, Parnelli, Alfa Romeo, Williams
Races	131
Championships	1
Wins	12
Podiums	19
Poles	18
Fastest laps	10
First race	1968]] Italian Grand Prix
First win	1971 South African Grand Prix
Last race	1982 Las Vegas Grand Prix

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Mario Andretti portrayed on the cover of Esquire

Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is a retired American automobile racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport. He is one of only two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR (the other being Dan Gurney). He also won races in midget cars, sprint cars, and drag racing.

During his career, Andretti won four IndyCar titles (three under USAC-sanctioning, one under CART), the 1978 Formula One World Championship, and IROC VI. To date, he remains the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 (1969), Daytona 500 (1967) and the Formula One World Championship, and, along with Juan Pablo Montoya, the only driver to have won a race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500. No American has won a Formula One race since Andretti's victory at the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix. Andretti had 109 career wins on major circuits.

Andretti had a long career in racing. He was the only person to be named United States Driver of the Year in three decades (1967, 1978, and 1984). He was also one of only three drivers to win races on road courses, paved ovals, and dirt tracks in one season, a feat that he accomplished four times. With his final IndyCar win in April 1993, Andretti became the first driver to win IndyCar races in four different decades and the first to win automobile races of any kind in five.

In American popular culture, his name has become synonymous with speed, similar to Barney Oldfield in the early twentieth century and Stirling Moss in the United Kingdom.

Early life

Mario Andretti and his twin brother Aldo were born into an Italian family in Motovun (then Montona), Istria, on February 28, 1940 to a farm administrator named Luigi and his wife Rina. Istria was then a region of Italy but became a part of Yugoslavia with the conclusion of World War II in 1945 and the Treaty of Paris finalizing Istria from Italy. Three years later in 1948 Mario, Aldo, their sister Anna Maria, and their parents left Istria during the period of the Istrian exodus for a camp in Lucca, Italy. The family emigrated to the United States of America in 1955 and settled in Nazareth in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley in June of that year with just $125. Andretti became a naturalized United States citizen in 1964.

Racing career

Childhood involvement in motorsports

The twins' mother Rina said that when they were two years old, they would take pot lids out of the cupboards and run around the kitchen, going "Vroom, vroom," like they were driving cars - this before they had seen a car. In 1945, at the age of five, he and Aldo were racing their hand-crafted wooden cars through the steep streets of their hometown. Later, the brothers were hired by a garage to park cars, Andretti described the experience in his book What's It Like Out There: "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. I still get it every time I get into a race car." Andretti's first racing experience was in a new youth racing league called Formula Junior in Ancona, Italy when he was thirteen years old. He had a fond childhood memory of watching a stretch of the Mille Miglia race in 1954 causing him to become captivated by Italian two-time Formula One world champion Alberto Ascari.

Stock car racing

Start in racing

Mario and Aldo were surprised to find a half mile dirt racing track when they moved to Nazareth. The twins worked on a 1948 Hudson Hornet Sportsman stock car funded by money that they earned in their uncle's garage in 1959. They took turns racing the car on oval dirt tracks near Nazareth in 1959 in the old Hudson. They did not tell their parents that they were racing. The twins each had two wins after their first four races. Aldo was seriously hurt near the end of the season, and their parents were unhappy to find out that the twins were racing. Mario had 21 modified stockcar wins in 46 races in 1960 and 1961.

USAC stock car

Andretti occasionally competed in United States Automobile Club (USAC) stock car events. He competed in USAC stock cars in 1965, and finished twelfth in the season points. He won a USAC Stock Car race in 1967, and finished seventh in the season points. He won three 1974 USAC stock car races on road courses, and won four road course races in 1975.

NASCAR

Mario Andretti
Birthdate	02/28/1940
Birthplace	Motovun (then Montona d'Istria), Istria, Italy (1861–1946)|Italy naturalized American
Best Cup Pos	unranked
Cup Wins	1
Cup Top Tens	3
First Cup Race	1967 Motor Trend 500 (Riverside)
First Cup Win	1967 Daytona 500 (Daytona)
Last Cup Win	1967 Daytona 500 (Daytona)
Last Cup Race	1969 Motor Trend 500 (Riverside)
Awards	named the "Driver of the Century" by the Associated Press and RACER magazine 2000 International Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee 1996 National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Inductee (U.S.) named Driver of the Quarter Century in 1992 1990 Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee 1978-1979 (IROC VI) International Race of Champions series champion 1978 Formula One World Championship 1974 USAC national dirt track champion (U.S.) 1972 24 Hours of Daytona 1969 Indianapolis 500 winner 1967 Daytona 500 winner Three time 12 Hours of Sebring winner (1967, 1970, 1972) Four time IndyCar champion (1965, 1966, 1969, 1984) 1969 ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year
Years In Cup	4
Total Cup Races	14

Andretti competed in fourteen NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup) events in his career. He competed in Holman Moody cars for his final ten events. Holman Moody was one of NASCAR's most successful teams at that time, as the team won NASCAR championships in 1968 and 1969 with driver David Pearson. Andretti won the 1967 Daytona 500 for Holman Moody.

International Race of Champions

Andretti was invited to race in six International Race of Champions (IROC) series in his career. His best years were his first three years. He finished second in the final points standings in IROC III (1975-1976) and IROC V (1977-1978). He won the IROC VI (1978-1979) points championship with finishes of third, first, and second. He won three races in twenty events.

Open wheel racing

Early open wheel racing

Andretti's goal was to race in single-seater open wheel cars. Andretti said "Aldo and I were winning in stock cars. But my objective was to get into single-seaters."

Andretti raced midget cars from 1961 to 1963. He started racing 3/4 (sized) midget cars in the American Three Quarter Midget Racing Association in the winter to be seen by full-sized midget car owners. He raced in over one hundred events in 1963. Andretti won three feature races at two different tracks on Labor Day in 1963. He won an afternoon feature at Flemington, New Jersey, and swept twin features at Hatfield, Pennsylvania.

The next rung on the racing ladder on the East Coast of the United States was to race in sprint cars in the United Racing Club (URC). Andretti was able to get a ride for individual races in the URC sprint car racing series, but was unable to secure a full-time ride. He once drove from Canada to Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania hoping to find a ride in an event, but he went empty-handed. He bypassed the series when he was offered a full-time ride in a United States Automobile Club sprint car for 1964.

USAC sprint cars

Andretti won the 1964 Joe James-Pat O'Connor Memorial USAC sprint car race at Salem Speedway in Salem, Indiana. Andretti continued to race in USAC sprint cars after moving into champ cars. In 1965 he won once at Ascot Park, and finished tenth in the season points. In 1966 he won five times (Cumberland, Maryland, Oswego, New York, Rossburg, Ohio, Phoenix, Arizona, and his second win at the Joe James-Pat O'Connor Memorial at Salem Speedway), but finished behind Roger McCluskey in the season championship. In 1967 he won two of the three events that he entered.

IndyCar career

From 1956 to 1979, the top open wheel racing series in North America was the USAC National Championship. It was often referred to as Champ car racing, or Indycar racing, referring to the famous Indianapolis 500 race which was the centerpiece of the championship. The races were run on a mixture of paved and dirt ovals, and in later years also included some road courses.

Andretti made his Champ Car debut on April 19, 1964 at the New Jersey State fairgrounds in Trenton, New Jersey. He started sixteenth and finishing eleventh. Andretti was introduced by his USAC sprint car owner, Rufus Gray, to veteran mechanic Clint Brawner. Brawner was not impressed since sprint car drivers Stan Bowman, Donnie Davis, and Chuck Hulse had recently died in accidents.Chris Economaki recommended Andretti to Brawner, so Brawner watched Andretti race at Terra Haute, Indiana. Brawner was convinced that he had found the new driver for his team. The two stayed together for six years. Andretti finished eleventh in National Championship that season. Andretti won his first championship car race at the Hoosier Grand Prix on a road course at Indianapolis Raceway Park in 1965. His third place finish at the 1965 Indianapolis 500 in the Brawner Hawk earned him the race's Rookie of the Year award, and contributed towards Andretti winning the series championship. He was the youngest national champion in series history at age 25. He repeated as series champion in 1966, winning eight of fifteen events. He also won the pole at the 1966 Indianapolis 500. Andretti finished second in the IndyCars in 1967 and 1968. He also won a single non-championship drag race in 1967 in a Ford Mustang. In both 1967 and 1968, Andretti lost the season USAC championship to A.J. Foyt and Bobby Unser, respectively, in the waning laps of the last race of the season at Riverside, California -- each by the smallest points margin in history.

Andretti won nine races in 1969, the 1969 Indianapolis 500, and the season championship. He also won the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, which was part of the USAC National Championship. He was named ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year. Between 1966 and 1969 he won 29 of 85 USAC championship races.

In 1973, USAC split its National Championship into dirt and pavement championships. Andretti had one win on the pavement and finished fifth in the season points, and finished second in the dirt championship. He competed in USAC's dirt track division in 1974, and won the dirt track championship while competing in both series. Andretti also competed in the North American Formula 5000 series in 1973 and 1974, and finished second in the championship in both seasons.

Formula One career

Andretti drove his Lotus Type 63 at the 1969 German Grand Prix.

Andretti's Lotus 77 racecar

Formula One is the highest form of open wheel racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's international governing body. Although originating in Europe, by the 1960s it included races worldwide. At Andretti's first Indianapolis 500, in 1965, he met Colin Chapman, owner of the Lotus Formula One team, who was running eventual race winner Jim Clark's car. Andretti told Chapman of his ambition to compete in Formula One and was told "When you're ready, call me." By 1968 Andretti felt he was ready. Chapman gave him a car, and the young American took the pole position on his debut at the 1968 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen in his Lotus 49.

Andretti drove sporadically in Formula One over the next four years for Lotus, March, and Ferrari, while continuing to focus on his racing career in America. At the 1971 South African Grand Prix, on his debut for Ferrari, he won his first Grand Prix. Three weeks later, at the non-championship Questor Grand Prix in the U.S., he brought the Italian team a second victory.

It wasn't until 1975 that Andretti drove a full Formula One season, for the American Parnelli team. The team was new to Formula One, although it had been successful in both Formula 5000 and IndyCar racing in America with Andretti driving. The team had run Andretti in the two North American end-of-season races in 1974 with promising results. Andretti qualified fourth and led the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix for nine laps before his suspension failed. He scored five championship points in the season. Andretti continued to compete in IndyCar, missing two Formula One races in the middle of the season to do so.

When the Parnelli team pulled out of Formula One after two races of the 1976 season, Andretti returned to Chapman's Lotus team, for whom he had already driven at the season-opening Brazilian Grand Prix. Lotus was then at a low point, having failed to produce a competitive car to replace 1970's Lotus 72. Andretti's ability at developing a racing car contributed to Lotus' return to the front of the Formula One grid, culminating in lapping the field in his victory at the season ending race at the Mount Fuji circuit in Japan. Since mid-1975 Lotus had been developing the use of ground effect, shaping the underside of the car to generate downforce with little penalizing drag. For his part, Andretti worked at setting up his cars for the races, exploiting subtle differences in tire size ('stagger') and suspension set up ('cross weighting') on each side of the car to optimize it for each track, an approach imported from his extensive oval racing experience in the United States. In 1977, at Long Beach, he became the only American to win the United States Grand Prix West, and the last American as of 2008 to win any US Grand Prix. The Lotus 78 "wing car" proved to be the most competitive car of 1977, but despite winning four races, more than any other driver, reliability problems and collisions with other drivers meant Andretti finished only third in the championship. The following year, the Lotus 79 exploited ground effect even further and Andretti took the title with six wins. He clinched the championship at the Italian Grand Prix. There was no championship celebration because his teammate and close friend Ronnie Peterson crashed heavily at the start of the race; he was hospitalised and died that night from complications resulting from his injuries.

Andretti would find little success after 1978 in Formula One - he failed to win another grand prix. He had a difficult year in 1979, as the new Lotus 80 was not competitive, and the team had to rely on the Lotus 79 which had been overtaken by the second generation of ground effect cars. In 1980, he was paired with Italian Elio de Angelis, and briefly with the young Nigel Mansell, but the team was again unsuccessful.

Andretti had an unsuccessful 1981 with the Alfa Romeo team. Like other drivers of the period he did not like the ground effect cars of the time: "the cars were getting absurd, really crude, with no suspension movement whatever. It was toggle switch driving with no need for any kind of delicacy...it made leaving Formula One a lot easier than it would have been." The next year Andretti raced once for the Williams team, after their driver Carlos Reutemann suddenly quit, before replacing the seriously injured Didier Pironi at Ferrari for the last two races of the year. Suspension failure dropped him out of the last race of the season, but at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza he took the pole position and finished third in the race.

Return to IndyCar racing

Andretti driving at Laguna Seca in 1991.

Andretti had continued to race, and occasionally win, in the USAC National Championship during his time in the Formula One world championship. In 1979 a new organization, Championship Auto Racing Teams, had set up the Indycar world series as a rival to the USAC National Championships that Andretti had won three times in the 1960s. The new series had rapidly become the top open wheel racing series in North America.

It was to this arena that Andretti returned full time in 1982, driving for Patrick Racing. In 1983 he joined the new Newman/Haas Racing team, set up by Carl Haas and actor Paul Newman using cars built by British company Lola. Andretti took the team's first win at Elkhart Lake in 1983. He won the pole for nine of sixteen events in 1984, and claimed his fourth Champ Car title at the age of 44. He edged out Tom Sneva by 13 points. It was the first series title for the second year team.

Andretti in 1984

Mario's son Michael joined Newman/Haas in 1989. Together, they made history as the first father/son team to compete in both IMSA GT and Champ Car racing, as for the former, it was their fourth time in an endurance race together as co-drivers. Mario finished seventh in points for the 1991 season, the year that Michael won the championship. Mario's last victory in IndyCar racing came in 1993 at Phoenix International Raceway, the year that Michael left Newman/Haas to race in Formula One. The win made Mario the oldest recorded winner in an IndyCar event (53 years, 34 days old). Andretti qualified on the pole at the Michigan 500 later that year with a speed of 234.275 mph. The speed was a new closed course world record. Andretti's final season, in 1994, was dubbed "The Arrivederci Tour." He raced in the last of his 407 Indy car races that September.

Indianapolis 500

Mario (left) and his brother Aldo (right) at pole day for the 2007 Indianapolis 500

Andretti won once at the Indianapolis 500 in 29 attempts. Andretti has had so many incidents and near victories at the track that critics have dubbed the family's performance after Mario's 1969 Indianapolis 500 victory the "Andretti Curse".

Mario finished all 500 mi just five times, including his 1969 Indianapolis 500 victory. Andretti was the first driver to exceed 200 mi/h while practicing for the 1977 Indianapolis 500.

Andretti finished second in the 1981 Indianapolis 500 by eight seconds behind Bobby Unser. The following day Unser was penalized one lap for passing cars under a caution flag, and Andretti was declared the winner. Unser and his car owner Roger Penske appealed the race stewards' decision. USAC overturned the one lap penalty four months later, and penalized Unser with a $40,000 fine.

In the 1985 Indianapolis 500, he was passed by Danny Sullivan in Turn One. A moment later, Sullivan spun in front of Andretti, pitted on his own caution to replace his flat-spotted tires, and then passed Mario again -- this time without incident -- to go on for the win. Andretti dominated the 1987 Indianapolis 500 testing, led for 170 of the first 177 laps of the race, but his race was ended with electrical failure on lap 180 of 200. Andretti suffered broken ankles in the 1992 Indianapolis 500 when he crashed hard in turn four during the race. Andretti's last race at Indy was the 1994 Indianapolis 500.

After retiring, Andretti was testing for his son Michael's IndyCar on April 24, 2003 in place of the injured Tony Kanaan at Indianapolis. At 5:58 pm – two minutes before the scheduled end of the session – Andretti powered out of the first turn onto the "south chute" of the circuit. In his path lay a chunk of debris from Kenny Bräck's car, which had crashed seconds earlier. The object forced the nose of Andretti's car to become airborne, and Andretti's car went into a rapid double reverse somersault at speeds estimated to be above 200 mi/h. Television footage from a local TV station's helicopter showed that the car was nearly high enough to clear the debris fence mounted atop the circuit's outer retaining wall. Andretti's car fell back to earth, having been slowed by its mid-air tumble, and slid to a stop. Luckily, the car landed right side up and Andretti walked away from the crash with very minor injuries.

Sports cars

1989 Porsche 962 co-driven with son Michael

Andretti won three 12 Hours of Sebring endurance races (1967, 1970, 1972), and the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1972. In early sportscar races he competed for the Holman Moody team, but later often drove for Ferrari. He signed with Ferrari in 1971, and won several races with co-driver Jacky Ickx. In 1972 he shared wins in the three North American rounds of the championship and at Brands Hatch in the UK, contributing to Ferrari's dominant victory in that year's World Championship for Makes. He also competed in the popular North American Can-Am series in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Le Mans

Andretti competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in four decades. In 1966 he shared a Holman Moody Ford MKII with Lucien Bianchi. They retired after their car dropped a valve at 10:30p.m. In 1967 his front brake locked, causing him to crash his Holman Moody Ford MKIV at the Esses. His teammates, Jo Schlesser and Roger McCluskey, crashed while managing to avoid Andretti's GT40. McCluskey pulled Andretti to safety, and Andretti was taken to hospital for X-rays.

Andretti did not return to Le Mans until his full time Formula One career was over. In 1982, he partnered with son Michael in a Mirage M12 Ford. They qualified in ninth place, but the pair found their car being removed from the starting grid 80 minutes before the start of the race, as an official discovered an oil cooler that was mounted behind the gearbox, which was against the rules. The car had passed initial inspection four days before the race. Despite protests and complaints, the Andretti's entry was removed altogether, replaced by a Porsche 924 Carrera GTR. Their return in the following year was more successful as they finished third. The father/son team returned in 1988 with John Andretti. They finished sixth in a factory Porsche 962. Following Mario's retirement from full-time racing, he decided on a return to the circuit to add a Le Mans victory to his achievements. He returned in 1995 with a second place finish. He said in a 2006 interview that he feels that the Courage Compétition team "lost [the 1995] race five times over" through poor organization. He had unsuccessful efforts in the following years with a thirteenth place in 1996, and then a DNF (Did Not Finish) for 1997. Andretti's final appearance at Le Mans was at the 2000 race, six years after his retirement from full-time racing, when he drove the Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S at the age of 60, finishing 16th.

Awards and honors

In 2000, the Associated Press and RACER magazine named him Driver of the Century. He was the Driver of the Year (in the United States) for three years (1967, 1978, and 1984), and is the only driver to be Driver of the Year in three decades. Andretti was named the U.S. Driver of the Quarter Century in 1992. He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2001, the United States National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1996, the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1990, and the Hoosier Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 1970.

On October 23, 2006, Andretti was awarded the highest civilian honor given by the Italian government, the Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (known as the Commendatore), in honor of his racing career, public service, and enduring commitment to his Italian heritage. Enzo Ferrari is the only other recipient of the Commendatore from the world of automobile racing.

From 2007 Mario Andretti is the "Mayor" (Sindaco) of the "Free Commune of Motovun in Exile" (Libero Comune di Montona in esilio), an association of Italian emigrants from Motovun.

Mario Andretti Grand Prix of Road America

Mario was instrumental in keeping championship car racing at Road America. CART severed its ties with the track as a legal resolution of payment issues from the 2002 and 2003 series events at the track. Andretti was an intermediary between CART President Chris Pook and Road America President George Bruggenthies. After six weeks both sides came to terms and signed a two year contract. The event was renamed the "Mario Andretti Grand Prix of Road America".

Elder of Andretti racing family

Mario (left) with nephew John (right) at the 2007 Indianapolis 500

Both of Mario Andretti's sons, Michael and Jeff, were auto racers. Michael followed in his father's footsteps by winning the IndyCar title, with Mario's nephew John Andretti joining the series in 1991. This meant that the Andrettis became the first family to have four relatives compete in the same series. With Mario sharing driving duties with sons Michael and Jeff at the 1991 Rolex 24 at Daytona, driving a Porsche 962, the Andretti clan finished 5th. Mario's grandson Marco completed his first full season in the Indy Racing League (IRL) in 2006, driving for his father Michael's Andretti Green Racing team. Marco finished second in the 2006 Indianapolis 500 and so became the first third-generation recipient of the race's Rookie of the Year Award.

Later life

Mario and his wife Dee Ann live near their son Michael in mansions overlooking the town of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, Mario's home city since the 1950s. Dee Ann is a native of Nazareth who taught English to Andretti in 1961.

Andretti has kept active after his retirement from full-time racing. He makes numerous speaking engagements before corporate audiences and is a spokesman for long time sponsors Texaco/Havoline and Firestone. He is also occasionally a spokesman for the Champ Car World Series, although he frequently attends IRL races watching Marco compete. Andretti is vice chairman of a winery named Andretti Winery in Napa Valley, California. He owns a chain of gasoline stations, a Toyota dealership in Moon Township, Pennsylvania (just outside of Pittsburgh), car washes, car-care products, go-kart tracks, a clothing line, video games and replica cars. He also test drives cars for Road & Track and Car and Driver magazines.

In July 2006 Mario took part in the Bullrun race across America. The first pitstop was at the Pocono Raceway (in Andretti's state of Pennsylvania), with Gate #5 aptly named Andretti Road.

Media appearances

Mario played himself on three episodes of the United States television show Home Improvement. He also appears in films, an IMAX movie Super Speedway about the making of Newman/Haas Racing cars as well as being about Mario Andretti and Michael Andretti. Mario is also in the Pixar Animation Studios film Cars, where his voice is used for a cameo in which he plays the 1967 Ford Fairlane in which he won the Daytona 500, a parody of his own success in that race. Mario appeared in the off-road racing documentary Dust to Glory as a course official, where the movie documents the 2004 Baja 1000 race. Mario also wrote a racing column for the Indianapolis Star where he wrote about other drivers, equipment, and cars.

Racing career results

Formula One World Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	WDC	Pts.
1968	Gold Leaf Team Lotus	Lotus 49B	Ford V8	RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA DNS	CAN	USA Ret	MEX						NC	0
1969	Gold Leaf Team Lotus	Lotus 49B	Ford V8	RSA Ret	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR												NC	0
		Lotus 63	Ford V8							GER Ret	ITA	CAN	USA Ret	MEX
1970	STP Corporation	March 701	Ford V8	RSA Ret	ESP 3	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR Ret	GER Ret	AUT Ret	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX					16th	4
1971	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 312B	Ferrari F12	RSA 1	ESP Ret	MON DNQ	NED Ret	FRA	GBR												8th	12
		Ferrari 312B2	Ferrari F12							GER 4	AUT	ITA	CAN 13	USA DNS
1972	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 312B2	Ferrari F12	ARG Ret	RSA 4	ESP Ret	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA 7	CAN	USA 6						12th	4
1974	Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing	Parnelli VPJ4	Ford V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN 7	USA DSQ			NC	0
1975	Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing	Parnelli VPJ4	Ford V8	ARG Ret	BRA 7	RSA 17	ESP Ret	MON Ret	BEL	SWE 4	NED	FRA 5	GBR 12	GER 10	AUT Ret	ITA Ret	USA Ret				14th	5
1976	John Player Team Lotus	Lotus 77	Ford V8	BRA Ret			ESP Ret	BEL Ret	MON	SWE Ret	FRA 5	GBR Ret	GER 12	AUT 5	NED 3	ITA Ret	CAN 3	USA Ret	JPN 1		6th	22
	Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing	Parnelli VPJ4B	Ford V8		RSA 6	USW Ret
1977	John Player Team Lotus	Lotus 78	Ford V8	ARG 5	BRA Ret	RSA Ret	USW 1	ESP 1	MON 5	BEL Ret	SWE 6	FRA 1	GBR 14	GER Ret	AUT Ret	NED Ret	ITA 1	USA 2	CAN 9	JPN Ret	3rd	47
1978	John Player Team Lotus	Lotus 78	Ford V8	ARG 1	BRA 4	RSA 7	USW 2	MON 11													1st	64
		Lotus 79	Ford V8						BEL 1	ESP 1	SWE Ret	FRA 1	GBR Ret	GER 1	AUT ret	NED 1	ITA 6	USA Ret	CAN 10
1979	Martini Racing Team Lotus	Lotus 79	Ford V8	ARG 5	BRA Ret	RSA 4	USW 4		BEL Ret			GBR Ret	GER Ret	AUT Ret	NED Ret	ITA 5	CAN 10	USA Ret			12th	14
		Lotus 80	Ford V8					ESP 3		MON Ret	FRA Ret
1980	Team Essex Lotus	Lotus 81	Ford V8	ARG Ret	BRA Ret	RSA 12	USW Ret	BEL Ret	MON 7	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER 7	AUT Ret	NED 8	ITA Ret	CAN Ret	USA 6				20th	1
1981	Marlboro Team Alfa Romeo	Alfa Romeo 179C	Alfa Romeo V12	USW 4	BRA Ret	ARG 8	SMR Ret	BEL 10	MON Ret	ESP 8	FRA 8	GBR Ret	GER 9	AUT Ret	NED Ret	ITA Ret	CAN 7	CPL Ret			17th	3
1982	TAG Williams Team	Williams FW07D	Ford V8	RSA	BRA	USW Ret	SMR	BEL	MON	DET	CAN	NED	GBR	FRA	GER	AUT	SUI				19th	4
	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 126C2	Ferrari V6T															ITA 3	CPL Ret

American Open-Wheel racing results

CART

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
1979	Team Penske	Penske PC-6	Ford Cosworth TC	PHX	ATL1	ATL2	IND	TRE1	TRE2	MIS1	MIS2	WGL	TRE3	ONT 3	MIS3 DNS	ATL3	PHX2				11th	700
1980	Team Penske	Penske PC-9	Ford Cosworth	ONT	IND 20	MIL	POC 17	MDO	MIS1	WGL	MIL	ONT2	MIS2 1	MEX	PHX 2						16th	580
1981	Patrick Racing	Wildcat	Ford Cosworth TC	PHX1 11	MIL1 3	ATL1 3	ATL2 2	MIS	RIV	MIL2	MIS2 2	WGL 16	MEX	PHX2 4							11th	81
1982	Patrick Racing	Wildcat 8B	Ford Cosworth	PHX1 2	ATL 11	MIL1 9	CLE 2	MIS1 2	MIL2 3	POC 14	RIV 23	ROA 14	MIS2 2	PHX2 3							3rd	188
1983	Newman/Haas	Lola T-700	Ford Cosworth TC	ATL 5	IND 23	MIL 18	CLE 14	MIS1 3	ROA 1	POC 7	RIV 16	MDO 2	MIS2 4	CEA 1	LAG 2	PHX 2					3rd	133
1984	Newman/Haas	Lola T800	Ford Cosworth	LGB 1	PHX1 20	IND 17	MIL 8	POR 26	MEA 1	CLE 21	MIS1 1	ROA 1	POC 19	MDO 1	SAN 7	MIS2 1	PHX 12	LAG 2	CEA 2		1st	176
1985	Newman/Haas	Lola T900	Ford Cosworth	LGB 1	IND 2	MIL 1	POR 1	MEA 26	CLE 14	MIS1 10	ROA	POC 7	MDO 7	SAN 15	MIS2 21	LAG 11	PHX 3	MIA 27			5th	114
1986	Newman/Haas	Lola T8600	Ford Cosworth TC	PHX1	LGB 5	IND 32	MIL 5	POR 1	MEA 24	CLE 3	TOR 3	MIS1 21	POC 1	MDO 24	SAN 8	MIS2 10	ROA 9	LAG 4	PHX2 4	MIA 11	5th	136
1987	Newman/Haas	Lola T8700	Chevy A	LGB 1	PHX 5	IND 9	MIL 17	POR 10	MEA 2	CLE 10	TOR 15	MIS 19	POC 19	ROA 1	MDO 17	NAZ 19	LAG 17	MIA 4			6th	100
1988	Newman/Haas	Lola T8800	Chevy A	PHX 1	LGB 15	IND 20	MIL 17	POR 5	CLE 1	TOR 25	MEA 2	MIS 12	POC 17	MDO 2	ROA 3	NAZ 3	LAG 3	MIA 15			5th	126
1989	Newman/Haas	Lola T8900	Chevy A	PHX 8	LGB 18	IND 4	MIL 7	DET 3	POR 25	CLE 2	MEA 20	TOR 26	MIS 3	POC 5	MDO 7	ROA 7	NAZ 8	LAG 2			6th	110
1990	Newman/Haas	Lola T9000	Chevy A	PHX 4	LGB 5	IND 27	MIL 21	DET 25	POR 2	CLE 4	MEA 24	TOR 6	MIS 3	DEN 4	VAN 3	MDO 2	ROA 5	NAZ 4	LAG 26		7th	136
1991	Newman/Haas	Lola T9100	Chevy A	SUR 17	LGB 19	PHX 9	IND 7	MIL 3	DET 7	POR 5	CLE 6	MEA 15	TOR 2	MIS 4	DEN 15	VAN 4	MDO 7	ROA 3	NAZ 5	LAG 3	7th	132
1992	Newman/Haas	Lola T9200	Ford XB	SUR 7	PHX 17	LGB 23	IND 23	DET	POR 6	MIL 6	NHA 7	TOR 4	MIS 15	CLE 5	ROA 5	VAN 6	MDO 5	NAZ 5	LAG 2		6th	105
1993	Newman/Haas	Lola T9300	Ford XB	SUR 4	PHX 1	LGB 18	IND 5	MIL 18	DET 3	POR 6	CLE 5	TOR 8	MIS 2	NHA 20	ROA 15	VAN 5	MDO 7	NAZ 13	LAG 9		6th	117
1994	Newman/Haas	Lola T9400	Ford XB	SUR 3	PHX 21	LGB 5	IND 32	MIL 14	DET 18	POR 9	CLE 27	TOR 4	MIS 18	MDO 10	NHA 19	VAN 11	ROA 16	NAZ 25	LAG 19		14th	45

Total: 1 championship, 19 victories

Indianapolis 500 results

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish
1965	Brawner Hawk	Ford	4th	3rd
1966	Brawner Hawk	Ford	1st	18th
1967	Brawner Hawk	Ford	1st	30th
1968	Brawner Hawk	Ford	4th	33rd
1969	Brawner Hawk	Ford	2nd	1st
1970	McNamara	Ford	8th	6th
1971	McNamara	Ford	9th	30th
1972	Parnelli	Offy	5th	8th
1973	Parnelli	Offy	6th	30th
1974	Eagle	Offy	5th	31st
1975	Eagle	Offy	27th	28th
1976	McLaren	Offy	19th	8th
1977	McLaren	Cosworth	6th	26th
1978	Penske	Cosworth	33rd	12th
1980	Penske	Cosworth	2nd	20th
1981	Wildcat	Cosworth	32nd	2nd
1982	Wildcat	Cosworth	4th	31st
1983	Lola	Cosworth	11th	23rd
1984	Lola	Cosworth	6th	17th
1985	Lola	Cosworth	4th	2nd
1986	Lola	Cosworth	30th	32nd
1987	Lola	Chevrolet	1st	9th
1988	Lola	Chevrolet	4th	20th
1989	Lola	Chevrolet	5th	4th
1990	Lola	Chevrolet	6th	27th
1991	Lola	Chevrolet	3rd	7th
1992	Lola	Ford-Cosworth	3rd	23rd
1993	Lola	Ford-Cosworth	2nd	5th
1994	Lola	Ford-Cosworth	9th	32nd

Autobiographies

• What's It Like Out There, Mario Andretti and Bob Collins. Henry Regnery Company, 1970. ISBN 978-0809296729.
• Mario Andretti: World Champion, Mario Andretti and Nigel Roebuck. Hamlyn, 1979. ISBN 978-0600394693.
• Andretti, Mario Andretti. HarperCollins, 1994. ISBN 978-0006383024.

Further reading

• Mario Andretti: A Driving Passion, Gordon Kirby. D. Bull Pub., 2001, ISBN 1893618129.
• Mario Andretti Photo Album, Peter Nygaard. Iconografix, 1999, ISBN 1583880097.
• Mario Andretti (Race Car Legends), G. S. Prentzas. Chelsea House Publishers, 1996, ISBN 0791031764.
• Sports Hero, Mario Andretti, Marshall Burchard. Putnam, 1977. ISBN 0-399-20588-8.
• Mario Andretti: The Man Who Can Win Any Kind of Race, Lyle K. Engel. Arco Publishing, 1970. ISBN 978-0668021937.
• Mario Andretti: World Driving Champion, Lyle K. Engel. Arco Publishing, 1979. ISBN 0668047542.
• Mario Andretti, Mike O'Leary. MotorBooks, 2002. ISBN 0760313997.
• Andretti, Bill Libby. Grossett & Dunlap, 1970, ISBN 0448054299.

External links

• Mario Andretti Official Web Site
• Andretti Family Official Web Site
• Mario Andretti at the Internet Movie Database
• Andretti Winery

Alfa Romeo Formula One

Alfa Romeo SpA (1950-1951): 158, 159, 159A, 159B | Giuseppe Farina, Juan Manuel Fangio Autodelta (1979): 177 | 179, 179B, 179C, 179D | Bruno Giacomelli, Vittorio Brambilla Marlboro Team Alfa Romeo (1980-1983): 179, 179B, 179C, 179D | 182, 182B | 183T, 183TB | Andrea de Cesaris, Mario Andretti, Bruno Giacomelli, Mauro Baldi Benetton Team Alfa Romeo (1984-1985): 184T, 184TB | 185T, 185TB | Riccardo Patrese, Eddie Cheever ----- Alfa Romeo engine: Brabham BT45/BT45B/BT45C | Brabham BT46/BT46B | Brabham BT48 | McLaren M7D | McLaren M14D | Cooper T53 | De Tomaso F1 | LDS Mk1/Mk2 | March 711 | Osella FA1E | Osella FA1F | Osella FA1G | Osella FA1H | Osella FA1I