Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.
MARIO ANDRETTIThe 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.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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If you go off the road, you’re into somebody’s shop-window or front porch.
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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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You’re safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
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All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds later.
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Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.
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You do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.
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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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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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The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
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Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
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Unfortunately, we don’t educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
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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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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable.
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Quite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.
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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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