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Quite a bit different than the Indy two-seater Mario has driven in recent years. “You know, it's something that I have to check off my Bucket List.”Īndretti’s kept busy for many years on the Ind圜ar circuit as one of the featured drivers in the two-seater program that takes various guests and dignitaries for high-speed rides in an Indy car that’s been converted to carry a passenger. “They’re true professionals, just the way they run their staff and they're organizing everything for me, all the details and you have no idea how much I appreciate this effort,” he said. Andretti wielded a few McLaren-built Indy cars in the 1970s, but the British constructor is the only major name missing from his F1 CV. In an F1 career that began in 1968 and continued through 1982, Andretti drove for Lotus, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Williams, and others, but across those 12 wins and 128 starts, the greatest all-rounder the sport has known never found himself in a McLaren chassis. You can hustle it but have to be careful. I want to get the feel of the hybrid power, see what the car feels like. What he told me is that it would be a hybrid-era car, which would probably be from 2014 or something like that. And we sort of kidded around a bit about it whenever we saw each other, and then at Miami, in front of Martin Brundle, he says it again, and now it's in front of the world. “I said, ‘I’d love to give it a go in this, and Zak said, ‘Well, I'm gonna make it happen for you.’ But then we left it there.

“It was two years ago when we were at Goodwood and I sat in a current Formula 1 car they had there, and that was amazing,” Andretti told Road & Track. The promise made by McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown to give Mario Andretti a run in a modern McLaren Formula 1 machine will be fulfilled this weekend in Monterey.įor the 1969 Indianapolis 500 winner and 1978 F1 world champion, the second edition of the Velocity Invitational vintage racing event at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca will thrust the 82-year-old icon into action at a track that played home to many memorable drives and his farewell to Ind圜ar in 1994.

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