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A home made movie after winning Indy 500

ANDRETTI 1969 NAZARETH PARADE

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Dave Campbell
Published on Jan 18, 2011







Using slides and a souvenir booklet I have put together this video of the parade in Nazareth, Pa. honoring Mario Andretti in the summer of 1969 making for quite a trip down memory lane... This is the version without soundtrack.

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Mario Andretti- I Dined with Obama...But I'm Voting for Trump! TMZ Sports

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Published on Oct 19, 2016






Racing legend Mario Andretti says he's still a full pedal to the metal Donald Trump supporter -- even though he had dinner with the President Obama at the White House last night.

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1969 Mario Andretti - "Portrait of a Champion"

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Charles Intestine
Published on Jan 21, 2013







From 1969, a Car & Track segment on Mario Andretti at the Indy 500.

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Indy 500 A Race for Heroes - Mario Andretti

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Published on Sep 23, 2012







The famous highlight film

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Mario Andretti gives President Trump's hair a ride of its life through New York City in an IndyCar!

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IndyCar Serious Productions
Published on May 6, 2016







Mario Andretti gives Donald Trump a ride through the streets of New York City. This was on President Trumps highly acclaimed TV show the Apprentice, before he became President. This was also way back before the Liberals tried to destroy him. Same people back then, were on his TV show. Raised money for him, took money from him, stayed in his hotels, bought his real estate, and penthouses. Played golf at his courses, wanted him to speak at their engagements, partied with him. Hang out with him, and say they knew him. Took his college courses to get a degree without bitching, etc..He became President Trump, and Libturds came unglued!

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Trump - The Mario Andretti Racing Experience

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Published on Nov 22, 2016

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Mario Andretti: Racing Career - F1, IndyCar, Nascar, WSC - 1976

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Educational Video Library
Published on Jun 4, 2017

One of the most versatile drivers around, Mario Andretti is seen competing in various types of races (F1, Indycar, Nascar, WSC) and racing cars. Produced in 1976, this film gives an insight to one of the best race car drivers and Mario Andretti's Racing Career.

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#59 The Flying Lap: Mario Andretti

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Published on Feb 29, 2012







iTunes: audio http://bit.ly/hhES6J video http://bit.ly/f9cHhc More episodes at http://theflyinglap.com 'The Flying Lap with Peter Windsor', Wednesdays at 1900 UK, noon Pacific. It is very difficult to sum-up the man and the racing driver that is Mario Gabriele Andretti. For now, then, let's just adhere to the statistics: he is the only driver ever to have won the F1 World Championship, the Indianapolis 500 and the


Daytona 500. (True: he never won Le Mans - but he finished second there in 1995 and he was third at the Circuit of the Sarthe, sharing a Porsche with his son, Michael, in 1983. He also helped Ferrari secure the 1972 World Sports Car Championship; and, in 1970, at the Sebring 12 Hours, drove one of the greatest races in sports car history to win in the closing stages.) He was won four IndyCar Championships from 52


race victories, countless more sprint and midget events, the Pikes Peak hill-climb and even a drag race. He is one of only three drivers ever to have taken the pole for his first F1 race - and his 12 Grand Prix victories and 18 poles came with two of the biggest names in the sport - Scuderia Ferrari and Team Lotus. Mario was as competitive in his 40s as he was in his 20s and raced at Le Mans as recently as 2000, when


he was 60. He remains one of only two Americans ever to win the World Championship. And he is today the fully-active, passionate head of a family racing dynasty that has produced Michael, Jeff, John, Marco - and also, in the early years, twin brother Aldo. Mario, who turned 72 yesterday, is also a man of the times: he is on Twitter (@MarioAndretti); his website (http://marioandretti.com) is a feast of Italian operatic


scores, images and stats; and he is the new face of Go Daddy.com, the domain name company. Very appropriately, a huge Mario Andretti billboard recently dominated Times Square in New York City.

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Mario's relationship with the Speedway? It's complicated

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By: Robin Miller 7 hours ago


The fact Mario Andretti only won Indianapolis once in his career isn’t surprising – it’s stupefying. In his 29 starts at IMS, the man with the magic first name led 556 laps – more than multiple winners like A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears, Bobby Unser, Johnny Rutherford, Dario Franchitti and Louie Meyer, to name a few.

So that lone victory 50 years ago doesn’t begin to tell the story of how good Andretti truly was on the most famous track in the world. His name is synonymous with Indianapolis for outright speed, instant fame and countless heartbreaks.

But one of his many great attributes is that he doesn’t dwell on what could have been – he still celebrates that one day in the sun at 16th and Georgetown on May 30, 1969.

“I’ll always feel blessed to have won it once because it’s so damn hard,” he said recently. “It’s a race that’s with you forever. There’s no question about it. But when you win it, it does change your life in so many ways, and all for the better, quite honestly. Career-wise, it opens doors that you could have only hoped for before, and your personal life changes dramatically.

“This race carries so much weight because – and I’ve said this so many times, and I mean it – it’s the only race on the globe that I think is worth a championship. I was on the Tonight Show after winning the 1965 national championship and Johnny Carson introduced me as rookie of the year at Indianapolis so that told me a lot early on.”

The diminutive dynamo from Trieste, Italy, who didn’t look big or strong enough to muscle at Indy car, took to the two-and-a-half mile oval and daunting speeds like few before or since.

He finished third as a rookie, won the pole in 1966 and 1967, and started fourth in 1968 – but only completed 87 laps in those three starts because of mechanical failures. “Mario is slowing down” became almost as famous as Tom Carnegie shouting: “It’s a new track record” over the PA system.

And 1969 went from untouchable to unlikely in the matter of a couple days.



Were it not for some flimsy F1 hubs, the Brawner-Hawk would not even have been on the track in 1969. Image by IMS


Those were the days when Indy sported three weeks of practice. Andretti debuted Colin Chapman’s four-wheel drive Lotus, and had Gasoline Alley in a panic about his lap times. “We were 4mph quicker than anybody, and we were still waiting on Firestone to build us our front tires,” recalled co-chief mechanic Jim McGee. “But we didn’t trust the car. It had no miles on it and some flimsy components that concerned us.”

After the first weekend of qualifying was washed out, Mario was practicing when a hub snapped coming through Turn 4 and he pounded the wall, destroying the car and leaving him with facial burns and an old backup car that had not been intended to run.

“We told Chapman those F1 hubs wouldn’t work with the g-loads at the Speedway, so it wasn’t a surprise,” continued McGee.

The only option was the two-year-old Brawner-Hawk that had won at Hanford the month before, but had been put in mothballs afterwards. Chapman, who broke open the rear-engine revolution with Jim Clark and Dan Gurney in 1963, would withdraw his other two cars and never be seen again at IMS.

Clint Brawner, the wise old crew chief who gave Mario and McGee their big break, smirked as the remains of the Lotus were towed through the garage area. “Clint hated that car,” chuckled McGee.

Andretti, who had traded fast times with A.J. Foyt prior to his accident, wound up qualifying in the middle of the front row as Super Tex claimed the pole.

“We had no other option but to go with a Brawner-Hawk, and again, it was different for sure. The car was not as quick through the corners, much more of a handful, but you know, you just got what you got,” said the man who would win the world title in 1978 with Chapman. “So we put our nose to the grindstone, and said we’ve got to make the best of it.”

The 1987 Indy 500 brought domination – and then heartbreak. Image by IMS


A last-minute curveball came when USAC banned their external oil cooler, and ace fabricator Eamon “Chalkie” Fullalove and car builder Eddie Kuzma worked all night to remedy that situation.

The race began with Mario jumping into the lead just as his engine temperatures skyrocketed. “I figured, well this is going to be another early exit,” he recalled.

But, for some reason the engine didn’t blow, and the STP Special hummed along. Despite strong challenges from Lloyd Ruby and Foyt during the race, Andretti would lead 116 of 200 laps and fight off an overheating engine and dodged a bullet with the gearbox. “I had both of them covered,” he declared. “I let them go when I was backing off because of my engine temperatures, and they never passed me competitively.”

A post-mortem showed the gearbox was about to seize up, and would have done so in a couple more laps. “It was just my day, finally,” said Andretti, who received a famous kiss from owner Andy Granatelli in Victory Lane. “I was as happy for Andy as I was myself, because he’d been trying to win that race for so long.”

Of all his near-misses after ’69, nothing was more gut-wrenching than 1987 when he totally dominated the competition, led 170 laps and lapped second place before breaking down with 22 laps to go. Ever classy, he stood outside his garage and told the media: “Well, at least they knew we were here today.”

He raced into his 50s, and even won Phoenix at age 53, but Indy was the one that kept getting away.

“Obviously we all strive for more than… at least one win, but then for more. Once you get one, you want more,” he said. “But the fact that I think I’m third all-time in laps led, all except for Al, more than the four-time winners, tells you that I had a lot of good times here.

“I figured after that first win, several more would follow, but it wasn’t to be. I still had 29 wonderful years here as a driver.”


Indianapolis 500, Mario Andretti, IndyCar, Insights & Analysis

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Nazareth, PA — Dee Ann Andretti, who first met Mario Andretti as his English tutor.




A native of Allentown, PA, Dee Ann Hoch and Mario Andretti married in November 1961, not long after they met in a Nazareth school classroom, but before Mario’s racing career began its meteoric rise.



According to a 1994 interview with Allentown-based The Morning Call newspaper, she recalled that she liked Mario’s “impish quality,” and noted that he “definitely wasn’t shy.”


As her husband became one of the world’s most famous and successful race drivers and their family grew to include sons Michael and Jeff and daughter Barbie, it was Dee Ann who kept things running smoothly at home.


“I’ve tried to keep my family normal, to keep them from feeling different,” she said in the 1994 interview.


Also at that time, Barbie Andretti said, “Mom is totally untouched by notoriety and fame. Through the years, her only concern was wanting to be there for all of us. It takes a special woman to dedicate her life to helping others chase their dreams.”

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Mario, I understand.
An article for the Keystone Motor Club

"The engine sounds, they are my song" - Andretti Image by Campsite Media House
By: RACER Staff | 4 hours ago
“I look at a photo or a trophy today, and you know what? It’s more than a memory. I get the feeling. I can hear it. Those engines, those sounds, they are my song. Stock, NASCAR, Formula 1 — they all played a different sound. And I loved them all. And I still do.” – Mario Andretti
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Mario, I understand.

It was years ago I was at Sebring shortly after they made two race tracks.

It was dark, late at night, and I wanted to see what the new track was like.
After I walked the new track,, I decided to walk the track I had known to be the original track.
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I remembered my first year there and white short tailed Porsches. Long tailed prototypes had been run at Daytona 24 hours
only a few weeks before.

I remember the first time I saw disc brakes so hot that they were glowing red, almost yellow as the cars went by.

I remember one night when the sky to the North was lit up and I thought it was some kind of storm, but later learned
that the Air Force did night time bombing runs in Avon Park, and the whole Northern Sky was lit up.

I could faintly hear the sounds of the cars from the days when they raced in T-shirts, no roll bars, no guard rails, with telephone poles right next to the infield pavement.

One year I saw the original Grand Sport Corvettes......dark Sunoco Blue with Yellow side exhaust pipes......I thought how hokey it looked with yellow
side pipes.......before I knew that 12 hours of bare flames traveling down the 4 inch pipes was so hot that the steel changed to yellow on it's own
......and stayed that way.

I remember the year that a red Ferrari street car came blasting the horn, flying down pit road too fast, being late to line up for the start, without regard for the spectators who were walking packed in the roadway. Because of that one rich jerk, Ferrari lost a lot of respect in my eyes.

The Ford GT 40's had to have "luggage space" and the officials used a wooden Coca Cola crate slid into the back end of a cooling
air passage to be the "official suitcase".

Roger Penske's Camaro "won the race, and Porsche was first in class" according to Car and Driver magazine.
I have the poster from that year. I have a lot of Sebring posters, One with the Chaparral, The GT 40's,..................... bunches of them.
That Camaro engine was built by TRACO, Travis and Coons near the Penske race shop. It was a show engine......It had an excellent engine breathing system.

I remember that every year there was less and less spectator area and more and more spectators. Over the years, I acquired a collection of driving lights and headlights from race cars, that found their way onto some of my street cars. I could see first hand when the race cars were inspected, I got a lot of ideas, and my autocross car had ducting from the headlight to the carburetor.
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I remember when Mark Donohue did not slow down when there was ankle deep water on the course. I thought that was remarkable that when I could barely see,
Mark was still racing. I later figured it out........ As he was driving onto the Runway to head South, he swung wide in the rain, and actually drove BESIDE the runway as he raced South while others couldn't see either, and others had slowed down. Years later when I was racing sailboats, when conditions got really bad and wind was 50 mph, others were surviving.......but I was still racing. I recall one sailboat race when I was out front leading..... and dumped the boat over! I had rigged lines on the boat so I could bring it back up faster........I had drilled holes in the Hobie Cat metal frame so the water would dump out faster and get going again. I caught the pack, and dumped it again!.....brought it up and passed the pack again.... I dumped the boat 5 times in one race, caught and passed them each time and won the race! Like Mark Donohue, I learned that bad conditions are always worse on the other guy.
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I saw how the race cars set their suspension alignments. I drove to Jacksonville one Sunday morning and measured every Hobie cat.
I toed my twin hulls slightly in and the boat went faster. I epoxied the frame, made a stainless steel brace and added extra bolts to stop frame flex and the boat went faster.
When the wind would spurt, my boat instantly accelerated, while others took out the slack before moving.

I adjusted the rear twin rudders, so my boat would turn quicker and put a little negative camber into those rudders. I could tilt the mast forward and it would accelerate, tilt it back and it had more top speed. Sail it with one rudder out of the water, and it went faster....Tilt the boat onto one hull and it went faster.

I beat the Hobie Cat World Champion 5 times on the same day, and no one had ever done that before me or since then.
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That night
I could faintly hear the sounds of the cars from the days when they raced in T-shirts, no roll bars, no guard rails, with telephone poles right next to the infield pavement.

As I walked past the pits I could see Team Penske physically pushing the Sunoco Blue, Kirk F White Ferrari at every stop, when it went back out.
Pretty soon every team was pushing their cars as they were accelerating out of the pits.
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The sounds of the cars that night were getting louder as I walked past the pits, the voices were getting louder.

The ghosts of Sebring will always be with us.

Mario, I understand..................... Thanks for listening.
-Bob Vail

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