You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.
MARIO ANDRETTIIf you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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I love technology – yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I’m all for new technology.
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It makes great conversation to discuss what’s wrong with open-wheel racing today.
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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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I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.
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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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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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You do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.
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Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.
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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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A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.
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Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.
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I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
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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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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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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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