I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.
MARIO ANDRETTIThere’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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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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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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In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down.
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In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it’s a fact.
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I love all motor sports at the top level.
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At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that’s clearly why manufacturers are involved – it’s such a good testbed.
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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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My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along the way, I can tell you that.
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I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.
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If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
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You dream what you’re supposed to do.
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The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
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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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At Andretti Winery, I’m not the winemaker.
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A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
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