You’ve got to have friends out there. You can’t do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.
MARIO ANDRETTIYou’re safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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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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If you go off the road, you’re into somebody’s shop-window or front porch.
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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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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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But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own – Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.
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There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply.
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We always had a relationship, but what’s important is that I pretty much started my F1 career with them and ended it there, too.
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I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.
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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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At Andretti Winery, I’m not the winemaker.
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As far as I’m concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that no one else possessed. And he won with everything he put his hands on, including off-road.
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And I often said, I wish I could’ve had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many times.
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I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.
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