![]() Neither has Mario's youngest son Jeff, nephew John or grandson Marco, who will carry the family flag into Sunday's race. His son Michael, a five-times winner of the Indy 500 as a team owner, tried 16 times as a driver but never chugged from the winner's quart of milk. He had already won a Daytona 500 and in 1978 would claim the Formula One drivers' title but he would never again roll on to Victory Lane at IMS. That win 50 years ago this weekend was expected to be the first of many for Mario at the Brickyard. INDIANAPOLIS - One family's curse can be another family's blessing, but for the Andretti clan they are one and the same when it comes to the Indianapolis 500.įor more than five decades the Andrettis, starting with family patriarch Mario, have had a complicated relationship with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS).Īmerican motor racing royalty, the Andrettis have ruled over open wheel racing in the United States with a string of victories that have connected generations - father, to son, to grandson.īut for all their success at circuits around the world, Mario Andretti's Indy 500 victory in 1969 stands alone.
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