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.
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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There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them.
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The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
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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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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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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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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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Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.
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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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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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If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
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In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it’s a fact.
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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’ve got to have friends out there. You can’t do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.
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Not all teammates tell the truth.
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I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.
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Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.
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Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.
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Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.
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The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting?
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I see all these old people who don’t have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep.
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Age doesn’t affect driving – how do you like that?
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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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I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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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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Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.
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Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
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