Age doesn’t affect driving – how do you like that?
MARIO ANDRETTIYou 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.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.
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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 dream what you’re supposed to do.
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You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.
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What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
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From a prestige standpoint, the U.S. needs to host Formula 1. And I think Formula 1, they know they need the U.S. as well. So many companies that are global are based in the United States support Formula 1.
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I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
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Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.
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Not all teammates tell the truth.
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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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There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them.
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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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My wife loves football, but I think she’s resigned to the fact that I’ll never make it there.
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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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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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