You’ve got to have friends out there. You can’t do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.
MARIO ANDRETTII don’t want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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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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Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.
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When you start thinking you may get hurt, it’s time to get out of racing.
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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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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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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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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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If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?
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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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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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You do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.
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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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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting?
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Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.
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