Word: andrettis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Passing Maneuver. Everyone got out of the way of Mario Andretti, one of the few Americans driving Formula Ones on the Grand Prix tour. During some qualifying laps, his blood-red Ferrari 312-B spun out of control and slammed into a wall. Unhurt and undaunted, Andretti hustled to Phoenix, Ariz., for another race while his mechanics repaired the car's front suspension. Hopping a helicopter and then a private jet, he got back to Ontario just in time to qualify for the 12th starting position in the first heat...
...Andretti snaked around the 3.2-mile course at an average speed of 109 m.p.h., fought his way past tenacious Mark Donohue in a Formula A Lola-Chevrolet and then closed on the leader, Scotland's Jackie Stewart. Executing a neat passing maneuver on the 31st lap, he gunned by Stewart's blue Tyrrell-Ford and won going away. The second heat was more of the same as Andretti bested Stewart by a 12.3-sec. margin. After accepting his $39,400 winner's prize, Andretti suggested that the U.S. Formula A team could take some consolation from...
...stars of all styles turned out to draw the crowds. Dan Gurney and Poncho Gonzalez sprinted into the lead, lost it, and then regained it by cutting up-and across the infield-thoroughly disqualifying themselves. Second behind Smothers and his partner Bobby Unser came Astronaut Pete Conrad and Mario Andretti. Despite a sprained ankle, Paul Newman leadfooted it out of the pits so furiously that he tore up his car's transmission. But the whole race was so casual that for once Parnelli Jones, Newman's co-driver, did not seem to mind losing...
...Mario Andretti is the compleat race driver. Five foot six inches high, he drives every type of car. He won Indianapolis last year, has been national champion three times, has won the Sebring sports car enduro twice, including this year. He won the Daytona 500, premier event for stock cars in 1967, and qualified for the pole position in the first Grand Prix he ever raced in. This year he is competing in six Grand Prix in an STP-March Ford, as well as running the whole USAC championship circuit. He was one of the fastest drivers in practice early...
...astest man in practice, qualification and carburation tests, and always ?? wide margin. So far this has been ?? nser's year. There is no doubt that ??ser's machine holds up, he will win race. Many people pick him to win race, and Unser is confident about ?? chances. But Mario Andretti domied practice in much the same way in ?? and 1967, only to fall out early in race. The fact is, only seven times ?? the race been won from the pole. ?? last time was 1963, when Unser's ?? owner, the semi-retired Parnelli ??, took the checkered rag. As good ??nser...