I love technology – yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I’m all for new technology.
MARIO ANDRETTIIf you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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You do a period of go-karting until you’re at the age of qualifying for a ride in a ‘school-kart,’ then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.
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When a car’s ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR.
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I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.
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The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career – either in stock cars or IndyCar – and he won’t need a passport.
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From a prestige standpoint, the U.S. needs to host Formula 1. And I think Formula 1, they know they need the U.S. as well. So many companies that are global are based in the United States support Formula 1.
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The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call ‘the good old days.’
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If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
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In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down.
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Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that’s really what it feels like.
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The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
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You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.
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The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.
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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable.
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You’re safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
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If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
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You’ve got to have friends out there. You can’t do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.
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All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on.
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It makes great conversation to discuss what’s wrong with open-wheel racing today.
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I always say that every win has something that is special.
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Even if it’s a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you’re running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.
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It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn’t do it. And vice versa – when I was ready, their seats were taken.
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But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own – Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.
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When you start thinking you may get hurt, it’s time to get out of racing.
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Unfortunately, we don’t educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
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Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.
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If you weren’t on Chris Economaki’s radar screen, you probably weren’t on anybody’s.
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