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...Andretti won the Indianapolis 500 in 1969 and the Formula One World Championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phil Hill | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...race from beginning to end. Three weeks later he did the same in Nurburgring. And after winning at Silverstone in Britain last week, he figures to take another victory lap at the Grand Prix in Hockenheim, Germany, next Sunday. "It certainly does ruin the suspense," says Mario Andretti, the last American driver to win the F1 world championship, back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Kills (All The Fun) | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...turns out the Mario in question (Andretti, of course) had his sons hone their driving skills with Skip Barber, a retired racer who owns a chain of 20 driving schools where he gives corporate executives a chance to pretend they are real men. I wanted to pretend to be an executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Got a Fast Car | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...royalty is always punctual) to her exhausted departure just before 11. She must cover about 10 miles a night in the mincing steps she takes across the Music Hall expanse. Playing the tacky chanteuse Delores DeLago in mermaid fin and motorized wheelchair, she races around like a Betty Andretti. She'll go supine on the stage, as if it were her analyst's couch, then busily buff the floor with her derriere. If there were windows in this grand Art Deco auditorium, she'd do them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette, Better, Best | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...born in Indianapolis, possibly he would have raced the brightest automobiles. People say he has a genius for sailing, but it may be that he has just applied his genius to sailing and is literally driving himself. "At a certain level, does it make much difference?" Conner asks. "Mario Andretti or A.J. Foyt? Or is it the car?" One of the shapeless peaked caps he rotates in endless supply bears the emblem of Calumet Farm. If Kentucky had bred Conner, would he have trained horses? Alydar was a Calumet colt the year Affirmed beat him by an inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going For the America's Cup | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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