In 1982, he won six of the 11 races on his way to winning the Robert Bosch US Formula Super Vee Championship. He also drove in a number of Formula Vee races in regional SCCA events. He obtained his SCCA National License in 1980, then won six races to claim the SCCA's Northeast Division Formula Ford championship in 1981. Michael Andretti was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania to race car driver Mario Andretti, a four-time Ind圜ar champion and one-time Formula One champion, and his wife Dee Ann (née Hoch) įollowing a successful career racing karts, winning 50 of his 75 races over eight years, Andretti moved into racing cars. He is the son of Formula One World Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti, and the father of current Ind圜ar Series driver Marco Andretti. Since his retirement from active racing, Andretti has owned Andretti Autosport, which has won four Ind圜ar Series championships and five Indianapolis 500 races. Statistically one of the most successful drivers in the history of American open-wheel car racing, Andretti won the 1991 CART PPG Indy Car World Series and amassed 42 race victories, the most in the CART era and fourth-most all time. “We’re all one, big happy family.Michael Mario Andretti (born October 5, 1962) is an American semi-retired auto racing driver and current team owner. “We all know how versatile Kyle can be,” Andretti said. “It was good for all of us.”Īndretti liked that seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson tried his hand at the NTT Ind圜ar Series in recent years.Īndretti thinks Larson has the skills to do as well at the Indy 500 has he has in NASCAR, where he’s won 21 times including the series title in 2021.
No driver has attempted the Memorial Day double of racing 500 miles at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and following that up with 600 miles at Charlotte Motor Speedway since Kurt Busch in 2014.īusch finished sixth at the Indy 500, but came up short of finishing the 1,100 miles with a blown engine in the NASCAR race.Īndretti, who ran 14 NASCAR races, recalled chatting with stockcar greats like the the Allison brothers, Donnie and Bobby, and Cale Yarborough about doing more open-wheel events.Īndretti remembered how drivers known for Indy racing like four-time 500 winner A.J.
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