You’re safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
MARIO ANDRETTIEven 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.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
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When you start thinking you may get hurt, it’s time to get out of racing.
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I’ve always said, ‘I didn’t have a Plan B in life.’ I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It’s all about desire and passion. At all costs.
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A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.
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Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
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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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In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down.
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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 makes great conversation to discuss what’s wrong with open-wheel racing today.
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If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
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The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
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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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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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I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.
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Age doesn’t affect driving – how do you like that?
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