If you weren’t on Chris Economaki’s radar screen, you probably weren’t on anybody’s.
MARIO ANDRETTIIn NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down.
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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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I’ve driven just about every kind of car there is.
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I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.
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I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.
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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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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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Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.
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You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe.
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Not all teammates tell the truth.
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Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.
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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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I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.
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The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career – either in stock cars or IndyCar – and he won’t need a passport.
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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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With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros.
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