Mario Andretti

Mario Andretti

Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Italian American (naturalized 1964)
Active years	1968 - 1972, 1974 - 1982
Teams	Lotus, March, Ferrari, Parnelli, Alfa Romeo, Williams
Entries	131 (128 starts)
Championships	1 (1978)
Wins	12
Podiums	19
Career points	180
Pole positions	18
Fastest laps	10
First entry	1968 Italian Grand Prix
First win	1971 South African Grand Prix
Last win	1978 Dutch Grand Prix
Last entry	1982 Las Vegas Grand Prix

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1966-1967, 1982-1983, 1988, 1995-1997, 2000
Teams	Holman Moody Grand Touring Cars Inc. Porsche Kremer Racing Porsche AG Courage Compétition Panoz Motorsports
Best finish	2nd (1995)
Class wins	1 (1995)

Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 27, 1940.6 in Montona d'Istria, Italy, now Motovun, Croatia) is an Italian American racecar driver, and one of the most successful Americans in the history of auto racing.

He has competed and won in many different types of auto racing, including stock cars, midget cars, sprint cars, IndyCars, drag racing cars, sports cars, and single-seater Formula One cars. During his career, Andretti won four IndyCar titles, the 1978 Formula One World Championship, and IROC VI (the 1978 - 1979 IROC). To date, he remains the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 (1969), NASCAR's Daytona 500 (1967), and the Formula One World Championship. No American has won a Formula One race since Andretti at the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix. Andretti had 109 career wins on major circuits.

Andretti had a long career in racing. He was the only person to be named Driver of the Year in three decades (1967, 1978, and 1984). One of only three drivers to win races on road courses, paved ovals, and dirt tracks in one season, a feat that he accomplished four times. At his final IndyCar win in April 1993, Andretti became the first driver to win IndyCar races in four decades and the first to win races in five decades.

The name Mario Andretti has become synonymous with speed in the United States, similar to Barney Oldfield in the early twentieth century and Stirling Moss in the United Kingdom.

Early life

Mario Andretti was born in the town of Montona d'Istria in the then Italian province of Istria. He was born with a twin brother, Aldo Andretti. Istria was occupied and annexed by Yugoslavia after World War II. His family, like many other Italian Istrians, fled in 1948. They lived in a refugee camp in Lucca from 1948 to 1955. The five members of the Andretti family resettled in Nazareth in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley in June 1955 with $125. Andretti became a United States naturalized citizen in 1964.

Racing career

Childhood involvement in motorsports

The twin's mother Rina said that when they were two years old, they would take pot lids out of the cupboards and run around the kitchen, going "Vroom, vroom," like they were driving cars - this before they had seen a car. In 1945, at the age of five, he and Aldo were racing their hand-crafted wooden cars through the steep streets of their hometown. Later, the brothers were hired by a garage to park cars. Andretti described the experience in his book What's It Like Out There: "The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car." Andretti's first racing experience was in a new youth racing league called Formula Junior in Ancona, Italy when he was thirteen years old. He had a fond childhood memory of watching a stretch of the Mille Miglia race in 1954. He became captivated by Italian two-time Formula One world champion Alberto Ascari.

Stockcar racing

Start in racing

Mario and Aldo were surprised to find a half mile dirt racing track when they moved to Nazareth. The twins worked on a 1948 Hudson Hornet Sportsman stock car funded by money that they earned their uncle's garage in 1959. They took turns racing the car on oval dirt tracks near Nazareth in 1959 in the old Hudson. The twins each had two wins after their first four races. Mario had 21 modified stockcar wins in 46 races in 1960 and 1961.

NASCAR

Mario Andretti
Awards	named the "Driver of the Century" by the Associated Press and RACER magazine 2000 International Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee 1996 National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Inductee (U.S.) named Driver of the Quarter Century in 1992 1990 Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee 1978-1979 (IROC VI) International Race of Champions series champion 1978 Formula One World Championship 1974 USAC national dirt track champion (U.S.) 1972 24 Hours of Daytona 1969 Indianapolis 500 winner 1967 Daytona 500 winner Three time 12 Hours of Sebring winner (1967, 1970, 1972) Four time IndyCar champion (1965, 1966, 1969, 1984) 1969 ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year
NASCAR Cup Series career
14 races run over 4 years
Best finish	unranked
First race	1967 Motor Trend 500 (Riverside)
Last race	1969 Motor Trend 500 (Riverside)
First win	1967 Daytona 500 (Daytona)
Last win	1967 Daytona 500 (Daytona)
Wins Top tens Poles 1 3

Andretti competed in fourteen NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup (now NEXTEL Cup) events in his career. He competed in Holman Moody cars for his final ten events. Holman Moody was one of NASCAR's most successful teams at that time. Andretti won the 1967 Daytona 500 for Holman Moody.

International Race of Champions

Andretti was invited to race in six International Race of Champions (IROC) series in his career. His best years were his first three years. He finished second in the final points standings in IROC III (1975-1976) and IROC V (1977-1978). He won the IROC VI (1978-1979) points championship with finishes of third, first, and second. He won three races in twenty events.

Open wheel racing

Early open wheel racing

Andretti raced sprint cars in the United Racing Club on the eastern circuit from 1961 until mid-1962. Andretti moved to the American Racing Drivers Club midget car series in 1963, where he again toured the East coast of the U.S. He competed in over one hundred events in the season. Some days he competed and won three events in a single day.

IndyCar career

From 1956 to 1979, the top open wheel racing series in North America was the United States Automobile Club (USAC) National Championship. It was often referred to as Champ car racing, or Indycar racing, referring to the famous Indianapolis 500 race which was the centerpiece of the championship. The races were run on a mixture of paved and dirt ovals, and in later years also included some road courses. Andretti made his Champ Car debut in 1964, taking over the driving duties for the injured Chuck Hulse at Trenton, New Jersey. He started sixteenth and finishing eleventh for Al Dean's team. The move teamed Andretti with chief mechanic Clint Brawner, and the two quickly forged a winning combination. Andretti won his first championship car race at the Hoosier Grand Prix in 1965. His third place finish at the 1965 Indianapolis 500 earned him the race's Rookie of the Year award, and helped Andretti win the series championship. He was the youngest national champion in series history at age 25. He repeated as series champion in 1966. Andretti finished second in the IndyCars in 1967 and 1968. He also won a single non-championship drag race in 1967 in a Ford Mustang.

1969 was a banner year for Andretti. Andretti won nine races, the 1969 Indianapolis 500, and the season championship. He also won the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, which then formed part of the USAC National Championships. He was named ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year. Between 1966 and 1969 he won 29 of 85 USAC championship races.

While continuing to compete in the USAC National Championship, Andretti also competed two full seasons in the North American Formula 5000 series in 1973 and 1974, and finished second in the championship in both seasons. He also competed in USAC's dirt track division in 1974, and won USAC's championship while competing in both series.

Formula One career

Andretti drove his Lotus Type 63 at the 1969 German Grand Prix.

Formula One is the highest form of open wheel racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), auto racing's world-wide governing body. Although originating in Europe, by the 1960s it included races worldwide. At Andretti's first Indianapolis 500, in 1965, he met Colin Chapman, owner of the Lotus Formula One team, who was running eventual winner Jim Clark's car. Andretti told Chapman of his ambition to compete in Formula One and was told "When you're ready, call me." By 1968 Andretti felt he was ready. Chapman gave him a drive, and the young American took pole position on his debut at the 1968 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen.

Andretti drove sporadically in Formula One over the next four years for Lotus, March, and Ferrari, while continuing to focus on his racing career in America. He won his first grand prix in 1971 in his debut for the Italian team at the South African Grand Prix, and won again at the non-championship Questor Grand Prix in the U.S. three weeks later.

It wasn't until 1975 that Andretti drove a full Formula One season, for the American Parnelli team. The team was new to Formula One, although it had been successful in both Formula 5000 and IndyCar racing in America with Andretti driving. The team had run Andretti in the two North American end-of-season races in 1974 with promising results. Andretti qualified fourth and led the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix for nine laps before his suspension failed. He scored five championship points in the season. Andretti continued to compete in IndyCar, missing two Formula One races in the middle of the season to do so.

When the Parnelli team pulled out of Formula One after two races of the 1976 season, Andretti returned to Colin Chapman's Lotus team, for whom he had already driven at the season-opening Brazilian Grand Prix. His ability at developing a racing car soon progressed the Lotus towards the front end of the Formula One grid, culminating in lapping the field in his victory at the season ending race at the Mount Fuji circuit in Japan. In 1977, at Long Beach, he became the only American to win the United States Grand Prix West, in the Lotus 78 "wing car". Andretti's development work at Lotus was to result in the revolutionary "ground effect" Lotus 79 of 1978. He won six races in 1978, and took the title. The championship was a bitter-sweet victory in the light of the death of his teammate and close friend Ronnie Peterson.

Andretti would find little success after 1978 in Formula One - he failed to win another grand prix. He had a difficult year in 1979, as the new Lotus car was not competitive, and the team had to rely on the Lotus 79 which was showing its age. In 1980, he was paired with Italian Elio de Angelis, but the team was again unsuccessful.

Andretti had an unsuccessful 1981 with the Alfa Romeo team. Like other drivers of the period he did not like the ground effect cars of the time: "the cars were getting absurd, really crude, with no suspension movement whatever. It was toggle switch driving with no need for any kind of delicacy...it made leaving Formula One a lot easier than it would have been." The next year Andretti raced once for the Williams team, after their driver Carlos Reutemann suddenly quit, before replacing the seriously injured Didier Pironi at Ferrari for the last two races of the year. Suspension failure dropped him out of the last race of the season, but at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza he took the pole position and finished third in the race.

Return to IndyCar racing

Andretti had continued to race, and win occasional races, in the USAC National Championship during his time in the Formula One world championship. In 1979 a new organization, Championship Auto Racing Teams, had set up the Indycar world series as a rival to the USAC National Championships that Andretti had won three times in the 1960s. The new series had rapidly become the premiere open wheel racing series in North America, and it was to this arena that Andretti returned full time in 1982, driving for Patrick Racing. In 1983 he joined the new Newman/Haas Racing team, set up by Carl Haas and actor Paul Newman using cars built by British company Lola. Andretti took the team's first win at Elkhart Lake in 1983. He won the pole for nine of sixteen events in 1984, and claimed his fourth Champ Car title at the age of 44. He edged out Tom Sneva by 13 points. It was the first series title for a second year team. Mario's son Michael joined Newman/Haas in 1989. Together, they made history as the first father/son team to compete in both IMSA GT and Champ Car racing, as for the former, it was their fourth time in an endurance race together as co-drivers. Mario finished seventh in points for the 1991 season, the year that Michael won the championship. Mario's last victory in IndyCar racing came in 1993 at Phoenix International Raceway, the year that Michael left Newman/Haas to race in Formula One. The win made Mario the oldest recorded winner in an IndyCar event (53 years, 34 days old). Andretti qualified on the pole at the Michigan 500 later that year with a speed of 234.275 mph (377.028 kph). The speed was a new closed course world record. Andretti's final season, in 1994, was dubbed "The Arrivederci Tour." He raced in the last of his 407 Indy car races that September.

Indianapolis 500

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Mario (left) and his brother Aldo (right) at pole day for the 2007 Indianapolis 500

Andretti made the saying "Mario is slowing down!" famous at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Andretti has had so many incidents at the track, and that critics have dubbed the family's performance the "Andretti Curse".

Andretti was the first driver to exceed 200 miles per hour while practicing for the 1977 Indianapolis 500.

Andretti finished second in the 1981 Indianapolis 500 by eight seconds behind Bobby Unser. The following day Unser was penalized one lap for passing cars under a caution flag, and Andretti was declared the winner. Unser and his car owner Roger Penske appealed the race stewarts' decision. USAC overturned the one lap penalty four months later, and penalized Unser with a $ 40,000 fine.

In the 1985 Indianapolis 500, he was passed by Danny Sullivan. Sullivan subsequently spun in front of Andretti, pitted on his own caution, and then passed Mario again to go on for the win. Andretti dominated the 1987 Indianapolis 500 testing, led for 170 of the first 177 laps of the race, but his race was ended with electrical failure before the finish on lap 200.

Mario finished all 500 miles just five times, including his 1969 Indianapolis 500 victory. Andretti suffered broken ankles in the 1992 Indianapolis 500 when he crashed hard in turn four during the race. His last race at Indy was the 1994 Indianapolis 500.

After retiring, Andretti was testing for his son Michael's IndyCar on April 24 2003 in place of the injured Tony Kanaan at Indianapolis. At 5:58 pm -- two minutes before the scheduled end of the session -- Andretti powered out of the first turn onto the "south chute" of the circuit. In his path lay a chunk of debris from Kenny Brack's car, which had crashed seconds earlier. The object forced the nose of Andretti's car to become airborne, and Andretti's car went into a rapid double reverse somersault at speeds estimated to be above 200 miles per hour. Television footage from a local TV station's helicopter showed that the car was nearly high enough to clear the debris fence mounted atop the circuit's outer retaining wall. Andretti's car fell back to earth, having been slowed by its mid-air tumble, and slid to a stop. Luckily, the car landed right side up and Andretti walked away from the crash with very minor injuries.

Sports cars

Andretti won three 12 Hours of Sebring endurance races (1967, 1970, 1972), and the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1972. He also competed in the popular North American Can-Am series in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Le Mans

Andretti competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in four decades. In 1966 he shared a Holman Moody Ford MKII with Lucien Bianchi, and their car dropped a valve at 10:30pm, causing them to retire. In 1967 his front brake locked, causing him to crash his Holman Moody Ford MKIV at the Esses. His teammates, Jo Schlesser and Roger McCluskey, attempted to avoid Andretti's GT40 and crashed, but managed to avoid his car. McCluskey pulled Andretti to safety, which he had to be taken to hospital for X-rays.

Andretti did not return to Le Mans until his full time Formula One career was over. In 1982, he partnering with son Michael in a Mirage M12 Ford. They qualified in ninth place, but the pair found their car being removed from the starting grid 80 minutes before the start of the race, as an official discovered an oil cooler that was mounted behind the gearbox, which was against the rules. The car had passed initial inspection four days before the race. Despite protests and complaints, the Andretti's entry was removed altogether, replaced by a Porsche 924 Carrera GTR. Their return in the following year was more successful as they finished third. The father/son team returned in 1988 with John Andretti. They finished sixth in a factory Porsche 962. Following Mario's retirement from full-time racing, he decided on a return to the circuit to add a Le Mans victory to his achievements. He returned in 1995 with a second place finish. He said in a 2006 interview that he feels that the Courage Compétition team "lost [the 1995] race five times over" through poor organization. He had unsuccessful efforts in the following years with a thirteenth place in 1996, and then a DNF (Did Not Finish) for 1997. Andretti's final appearance at Le Mans was at the 2000 race, six years after his retirement from full-time racing, when he drove the Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S at the age of 60, finishing 16th.

Awards and honors

In 2000, the Associated Press and RACER magazine named him "Driver of the Century." The same year, he was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the United States National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1996, and the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1990.

He was the Driver of the Year in three years (1967, 1978, and 1984), and is the only driver to be Driver of the Year in three decades. Andretti was named the Driver of the Quarter Century in 1992.

On October 23, 2006, at the Columbus Citizens Foundation in New York, Andretti was awarded the highest civilian honor given by the Italian government, the Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (known as the Commendatore), in honor of his racing career, public service, and enduring commitment to his Italian heritage. Enzo Ferrari is the only other recipient of the Commendatore from the world of automobile racing.

Mario Andretti Grand Prix of Road America

Mario was instrumental in keeping championship car racing at Road America. CART severed its ties with the track as a legal resolution of payment issues from the 2002 and 2003 series events at the track. Andretti was an intermediary between CART President Chris Pook and Road America President George Bruggenthies. After six weeks both sides came to terms and signed a two year contract. The event was renamed the "Mario Andretti Grand Prix of Road America".

Elder of Andretti racing family

Mario (left) with nephew John (right) at the 2007 Indianapolis 500

Both of Mario Andretti's sons, Michael and Jeff, were auto racers. Michael followed in his father's footsteps by winning the IndyCar title. In 1991, the Andrettis were joined by Mario's nephew John Andretti. The Andrettis became the first family to have four relatives compete in the same series. Mario's grandson Marco completed his first full season in the Indy Racing League (IRL) in 2006, driving for his father Michael's Andretti Green Racing team. Marco finished second in the 2006 Indianapolis 500, became the first third-generation-recipient of the race's Rookie of the Year Award.

Later life

Mario and his wife Dee Ann live near their son Michael in mansions overlooking the town of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, Mario's home city since the 1950s. Dee Ann is a native of Nazareth who taught English to Andretti in 1961.

Andretti has kept active after his retirement from full-time racing. He makes numerous speaking engagments before corporate audiences. He is a spokesman for long time sponsors Texaco/Havoline and Firestone. He is also occasionally a spokesman for the Champ Car World Series, although he was spotted at IRL races throughout the 2006 season as he watched Marco compete. Andretti is vice chairman of a winery named Andretti Winery in Napa Valley, California. Andretti has a chain of gasoline stations and a distributorship, a car dealership, car washes, car-care productes, go-kart tracks, a clothing line, video games and replica cars. He also test drives cars for Road & Track and Car and Driver magazines.

In July 2006 Mario took part in the Bullrun race across America. The first pitstop was at the Pocono Raceway (in Andretti's state of Pennsylvania), with Gate #5 aptly named Andretti Road.

Movie appearances

• The IMAX movie Super Speedway is about the making of Newman/Haas Racing cars, Mario Andretti, and Michael Andretti.
• Mario Andretti does a cameo in the Pixar Animation Studios film Cars. He plays himself as the 1967 Ford Fairlane in which he won the Daytona 500.
• Mario Andretti appeared in the documentary Dust to Glory as a course official. The movie documents the 2004 Baja 1000 race.

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Team	WDC	Points
1968	Lotus	RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA DNS	CAN	USA Ret	MEX						Lotus	NA	0
1969	Lotus	RSA Ret	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER Ret	ITA	CAN	USA Ret	MEX							Lotus	NA	0
1970	March	RSA Ret	ESP 3	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR Ret	GER Ret	AUT Ret	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX					March	16th	4
1971	Ferrari	RSA 1	ESP Ret	MON DNQ	NED Ret	FRA	GBR	GER 4	AUT	ITA	CAN 13	USA DNS							Ferrari	8th	12
1972	Ferrari	ARG Ret	RSA 4	ESP Ret	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA 7	CAN	USA 6						Ferrari	12th	4
1974	Parnelli	ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN 7	USA DSQ			Parnelli	NA	0
1975	Parnelli	ARG Ret	BRA 7	RSA 17	ESP Ret	MON Ret	BEL	SWE 4	NED	FRA 5	GBR 12	GER 10	AUT Ret	ITA Ret	USA Ret				Parnelli	14th	5
1976	Parnelli	BRA Ret	RSA 6	USW Ret	ESP Ret	BEL Ret	MON	SWE Ret	FRA 5	GBR Ret	GER 12	AUT 5	NED 3	ITA Ret	CAN 3	USA Ret	JPN 1		Lotus	6th	22
1977	Lotus	ARG 5	BRA Ret	RSA Ret	USW 1	ESP 1	MON 5	BEL Ret	SWE 6	FRA 1	GBR 14	GER Ret	AUT Ret	NED Ret	ITA 1	USA 2	CAN 9	JPN Ret	Lotus	3rd	47
1978	Lotus	ARG 1	BRA 4	RSA 7	USW 2	MON 11	BEL 1	ESP 1	SWE Ret	FRA 1	GBR Ret	GER 1	AUT ret	NED 1	ITA 6	USA Ret	CAN 10		Lotus	1st	64
1979	Lotus	ARG 5	BRA Ret	RSA 4	USW 4	ESP 3	BEL Ret	MON Ret	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER Ret	AUT Ret	NED Ret	ITA 5	CAN 10	USA Ret			Lotus	12th	14
1980	Lotus	ARG Ret	BRA Ret	RSA 12	USW Ret	BEL Ret	MON 7	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER 7	AUT Ret	NED 8	ITA Ret	CAN Ret	USA 6				Lotus	20th	1
1981	Alfa Romeo	USW 4	BRA Ret	ARG 8	SMR Ret	BEL 10	MON Ret	ESP 8	FRA 8	GBR Ret	GER 9	AUT Ret	NED Ret	ITA Ret	CAN 7	LVS Ret			Alfa Romeo	17th	3
1982	Williams	RSA	BRA	USW Ret	SMR	BEL	MON	USE	CAN	NED	GBR	FRA	GER	AUT	SUI	ITA 3	LVS Ret		Ferrari	19th	4

Indianapolis 500 results

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish
1965	Brawner Hawk	Ford	4th	3rd
1966	Brawner Hawk	Ford	1st	18th
1967	Brawner Hawk	Ford	1st	30th
1968	Brawner Hawk	Ford	4th	33rd
1969	Brawner Hawk	Ford	2nd	1st
1970	McNamara	Ford	8th	6th
1971	McNamara	Ford	9th	30th
1972	Parnelli	Offy	5th	8th
1973	Parnelli	Offy	6th	30th
1974	Eagle	Offy	5th	31st
1975	Eagle	Offy	27th	28th
1976	McLaren	Offy	19th	8th
1977	McLaren	Cosworth	6th	26th
1978	Penske	Cosworth	33rd	12th
1980	Penske	Cosworth	2nd	20th
1981	Wildcat	Cosworth	32nd	2nd
1982	Wildcat	Cosworth	4th	31st
1983	Lola	Cosworth	11th	23rd
1984	Lola	Cosworth	6th	17th
1985	Lola	Cosworth	4th	2nd
1986	Lola	Cosworth	30th	32nd
1987	Lola	Chevrolet	1st	9th
1988	Lola	Chevrolet	4th	20th
1989	Lola	Chevrolet	5th	4th
1990	Lola	Chevrolet	6th	27th
1991	Lola	Chevrolet	3rd	7th
1992	Lola	Ford-Cosworth	3rd	23rd
1993	Lola	Ford-Cosworth	2nd	5th
1994	Lola	Ford-Cosworth	9th	32nd

References

Autobiographies

• What's It Like Out There, Mario Andretti and Bob Collins. Henry Regnery Company, 1970. ISBN 978-0809296729.
• Mario Andretti: World Champion, Mario Andretti and Nigel Roebuck. Hamlyn, 1979. ISBN 978-0600394693.
• Andretti, Mario Andretti. HarperCollins, 1994. ISBN 978-0006383024.

Further reading

• Mario Andretti: A Driving Passion, Gordon Kirby. D. Bull Pub., 2001, ISBN 1893618129.
• Mario Andretti Photo Album, Peter Nygaard. Iconografix, 1999, ISBN 1583880097.
• Mario Andretti (Race Car Legends), G. S. Prentzas. Chelsea House Publishers, 1996, ISBN 0791031764.
• Sports Hero, Mario Andretti, Marshall Burchard. Putnam, 1977. ISBN 0-399-20588-8.
• Mario Andretti: The Man Who Can Win Any Kind of Race, Lyle K. Engel. Arco Publishing, 1970. ISBN 978-0668021937.
• Mario Andretti: World Driving Champion, Lyle K. Engel. Arco Publishing, 1979. ISBN 0668047542.
• Mario Andretti, Mike O'Leary. MotorBooks, 2002. ISBN 0760313997.
• Andretti, Bill Libby. Grossett & Dunlap, 1970, ISBN 0448054299.

External links

• Mario Andretti Official Web Site
• Andretti Family Official Web Site
• Mario Andretti at the Internet Movie Database
• Andretti Winery