A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
MARIO ANDRETTIThere’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them.
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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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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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If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
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I always say that every win has something that is special.
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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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The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
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Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.
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Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.
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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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Age doesn’t affect driving – how do you like that?
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If the Indy Racing League didn’t have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
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Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.
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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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I see all these old people who don’t have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep.
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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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I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.
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I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.
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You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.
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At Andretti Winery, I’m not the winemaker.
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My wife loves football, but I think she’s resigned to the fact that I’ll never make it there.
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I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
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I don’t remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.
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It makes great conversation to discuss what’s wrong with open-wheel racing today.
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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 see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you.
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Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.
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