There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them.
MARIO ANDRETTIWith 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.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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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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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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Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.
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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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Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I’ve ever raced against.
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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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All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds later.
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I don’t want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.
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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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I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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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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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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I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.
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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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Let the police worry about somebody who wants to speed. Don’t force them pass in the right lane and zig zag, which can create an accident, just because you think you’re correct.
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