Andretti, Mario

Andretti, Mario

▪ American race–car driver
in full  Mario Gabriel Andretti 
born February 28, 1940, Montona, Italy

      Italian-born American automobile-racing driver who drove stock cars, U.S. championship cars, and Formula One cars.

      Mario and his twin brother, Aldo, studied automobile mechanics, frequented racing-car garages, and participated in a race-driving training program in Italy. In 1955 the family came to the United States and settled in Nazareth, Pennsylvania; Mario became a U.S. citizen in 1964. By 1958 the brothers were racing stock cars. After several serious crashes, Aldo gave up racing in 1969. In the early 1960s Mario raced sprint and midget cars and in 1964 began racing in the championship-car division of the United States Automobile Club (USAC); he won USAC championships in 1965–66 and 1969. He also won the Daytona 500 stock-car race (1967) and the sports-car Grand Prix of Endurance race at Sebring, Florida (1967, 1970).

      Andretti won the Indianapolis 500 race in 1969 with a then-record speed of 156.867 miles per hour (252.11 km/hr). His apparent victory in the 1981 race was ultimately given to Bobby Unser (Andretti was penalized one lap for passing cars during a yellow flag). Andretti was the second American driver to win the Formula One world driving championship in 1978 (Phil Hill (Hill, Phil) was the first, in 1961). He retired from competition in 1994. In 1999 a panel of experts in a tie vote named Andretti and A.J. Foyt (Foyt, A. J.) the best drivers of the century. He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2000. Andretti's sons, Jeff and Michael, also became professional race-car drivers.

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