The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
MARIO ANDRETTIIt makes great conversation to discuss what’s wrong with open-wheel racing today.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
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I will never say ‘retired’ because that’s such a finality that I don’t want to be part of my life. I’ll work until they throw me in a box.
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If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
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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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Fans want the best, wherever they come from.
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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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Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
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I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.
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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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There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them.
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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
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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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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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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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I don’t want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.
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