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Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is an American-Italian former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from 1968 to 1982. Andretti won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1978 with Lotus, and won 12 Grands Prix across 14 seasons.
His beloved nephew John Andretti lost his three-year fight with colon cancer in early 2020, a death that shook the family. It came about six weeks before the pandemic...
Mario Andretti personified the American Dream, an immigrant who came to the land of the free and the home of the brave and achieved considerable fame and fortune.
Racing legend Mario Andretti recently took to social media to share a heartwarming update with his fans and followers. The 1978 Formula 1 champion announced the birth of his great-granddaughter...
LAS VEGAS – Mario Andretti is only one of two American drivers to win a Formula 1 World Championship and the last one to accomplish it in 1978. In that 1978 season, Formula 1 had two Grand Prix ...
Mario Andretti is an 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.
He is a racing icon, considered by many to be the greatest race car driver in the history of the sport. Assessing his legacy is easy...he drove the careers of three men. He drove with a passion and joy that few have equaled - and he won. Mario Andretti took the checkered flag 111 times during his career - a career that stretched five decades.
Mario Andretti's name is virtually synonymous with the sport of race car driving. A versatile driver with a charasmatic personality, he has won numerous races and seen two sons and a nephew become successful in the sport.
Mario Andretti talks about his path to racing fame and glory, why he's hopeful to get his family's team on the Formula One grid and more.
Mario Andretti came from humble beginnings to become one of the greatest names in racing. Andretti was born in 1940 in an Italian territory that is now Croatia. Following World War II, his family fled the country and spent the next seven years in a refugee camp.