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Andretti
Andretti is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Mario Andretti (born 1940), Italian-born American father of the prominent Andretti racing family: ** Michael Andretti (born 1962), son of Mario *** Marco Andretti (born 1987), son of Michael ** Jeff Andretti (born 1964), son of Mario * Aldo Andretti (1940–2020), twin brother of Mario ** John Andretti (1963-2020), son of Aldo *** Jarett Andretti (born 1992), son of John ** Adam Andretti (born 1979), son of Aldo *Action Andretti, American professional wrestler Given name * Andretti Bain (born 1985), Bahamian sprinter Fictional Characters * Mario Andretti (''Cars''), a fictional character from Disney Pixar's ''Cars'' See also * * Andretti Autosport, an auto racing team, of which Michael Andretti is an owner ** Walkinshaw Andretti United, an Australian motor racing team, shareholders Andretti Autosport and United Autosports * Andretti curse, a folk belief in a string of bad luck of the An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Andretti
Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is an Italian-born American former racing driver. One of the most successful drivers in the history of motorsports, Andretti is one of only two drivers to have won races in Formula One, IndyCar, the World Sportscar Championship, and NASCAR (the other being Dan Gurney). He has also won races in midget car racing and sprint car racing. During his career, Andretti won the 1978 Formula One World Championship, four IndyCar titles (three under USAC sanctioning, and one in CART), and IROC VI. To date, he remains the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 ( 1969), Daytona 500 ( 1967) and the Formula One World Championship, and, along with Juan Pablo Montoya, the only driver to have won a race in the NASCAR Cup Series, Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500. As of 2021, Andretti's victory at the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix is the last Formula One win by an American driver. Andretti had 109 career wins on major circuits. Andretti had a long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Andretti
Marco Michael Andretti (born March 13, 1987) is an American auto racing driver who drives the No. 98 car for Bryan Herta Autosport, Andretti Herta Autosport part-time in the IndyCar Series. He is the third generation of the famous Andretti racing family. He is the 2022 SRX Series champion. Early career Marco was born to Sandra and eventual IndyCar champion Michael Andretti. Marco's paternal grandfather is Italian American Mario Andretti, a highly successful racing driver, who raced professionally for four decades and had success in the United States and all over the globe in various categories of racing, including winning the List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions, Formula One Drivers' Championship in . Other Andretti family members also have had success in various categories of racing. Andretti won eight races in the 2003 Skip Barber, Barber Formula Dodge Eastern Championship, and was champion in the Barber National and Southern class the following year. Still barely ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Andretti
Michael Mario Andretti (born October 5, 1962) is an American semi-retired auto racing driver and current team owner. Statistically one of the most successful drivers in the history of American open-wheel car racing, Andretti won the 1991 CART PPG Indy Car World Series and amassed 42 race victories, the most in the CART era and fourth-most all time. Since his retirement from active racing, Andretti has owned Andretti Autosport, which has won four IndyCar Series championships and five Indianapolis 500 races. He is the son of Formula One World Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti, and the father of current IndyCar Series driver Marco Andretti. Racing career Early career Michael Andretti was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania to race car driver Mario Andretti, a four-time IndyCar champion and one-time Formula One champion, and his wife Dee Ann (née Hoch) Following a successful career racing karts, winning 50 of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andretti Autosport
Andretti Autosport is an auto racing team that competes in the IndyCar Series, Indy Lights, Indy Pro 2000, and Formula E. The team also has a 37.5% ownership stake in the Australian Supercars Championship touring car team, Walkinshaw Andretti United and a stake in the Extreme E team, Andretti United. It is headed and owned by former CART series champion Michael Andretti. Since Michael Andretti's involvement, the team has won the Indianapolis 500 five times ( 2005, 2007, 2014, 2016, 2017) and the IndyCar Series championship four times ( 2004, 2005, 2007, 2012). The team has won the Indy Lights championship in 2008, 2009, 2018, 2019, and 2021 . Additionally the team has won the Global RallyCross Championship with Scott Speed in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Scott Speed also won the 2018 Americas Rallycross Championship. In 2019 Tanner Foust won the Americas Rallycross title making it five rallycross titles in five years for the Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross team. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Andretti
John Andrew Andretti (March 12, 1963January 30, 2020) was an American race car driver. He won individual races in CART, IMSA GTP, Rolex Sports Car Series, and NASCAR during his career. He was the son of Aldo Andretti, older brother of racer Adam Andretti, nephew of Mario Andretti, and first cousin to IndyCar champion Michael and Jeff Andretti. Early life John Andretti was born on March 12, 1963, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to "Corky" and Aldo Andretti. As a member of the famous Andretti racing family he was predestined for a racing career. Starting with karts at a young age, he graduated in time to junior stock cars and USAC midgets. Andretti graduated from Moravian College with a degree in business management and later reflected he would have been an investment banker or stock broker if he had not started racing. He started racing actual sports cars in 1984. Andretti joined the BMW North America team for a full IMSA GTP season in 1986. He won that year at Watkins Glen, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Andretti
Jeff Andretti (born April 14, 1964) is a former American race car driver. He competed in CART, and was the series' Rookie of the Year in 1991. Personal life Jeff is the youngest son of Dee Ann (Hoch) and legendary Italian-born 1969 Indy 500 Champion and 1978 Formula 1 World Champion Mario Andretti, younger brother of Michael Andretti, and uncle of Marco Andretti. Jeff is the nephew of Mario's twin Aldo Andretti and cousin of Aldo's sons John Andretti and Adam Andretti. The Andretti family became the first family to have four relatives (Michael, Mario, Jeff, and John) compete in the same series ( CART). Racing career In 1983, Jeff was racing in Formula Fords, winning both the USCA Pro Ford Championship and the Skip Barber Formula Ford Eastern Series. After qualifying for his Sports Car Club of America national license in 1984, he won the Northeast Division title in Formula Ford. In the November, he made his Formula Super Vee debut at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. He continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Andretti
Adam Andretti (born March 24, 1979) is an American racing driver. He has raced in sports cars, Indy Pro Series, NASCAR, and Stadium Super Trucks. He has been competing in the Trans-Am Series since 2014. Family background He is the younger brother of the late veteran NASCAR racer John Andretti, nephew of Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti and first cousin to IndyCar champion Michael Andretti and Jeff Andretti. He is the first cousin once-removed to IndyCar driver Marco Andretti. His late father Aldo Andretti, Mario's twin brother, retired from driving race cars after nearly dying in an accident. Adam married Tabitha Eve on November 3, 2007. As of 2017, they reside in Brownsburg, Indiana. Andretti is a graduate of the Skip Barber Racing School. Racing career Andretti's racing career started in 1994 at the age of 15 with the help of his brother John, who helped Adam obtain a ride in the new half-scale Mini Cup Stock Car series, driving for Terry Lingner of Lingner Group Produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Andretti
Aldo Andretti (February 28, 1940 – December 30, 2020) was an Italian-born American racing driver and entrepreneur, the twin brother of Mario Andretti and the father of Carolyn Andretti Molander, Mark Andretti, John Andretti, Mary Jo Andretti Dial, and Adam Andretti. He was the uncle of Michael Andretti and Jeff Andretti, great-uncle of Marco Andretti, and grandfather of Jarett Andretti. Aldo and Mario were identical twins. Background Aldo and Mario were born in Montona, Kingdom of Italy, now Motovun, Croatia, where their father, Gigi, managed a farm. After World War II Istria (which is now part of Croatia) became a part of Yugoslavia. His family, like many other Italian Istrians, fled in 1948. They lived in a refugee camp from 1948 to 1955 until they were able to move to a two-room flat with the help of their uncle Quirino, who was a priest. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarett Andretti
Jarett Andretti (born December 13, 1992) is an American racing driver from Charlotte, North Carolina. He is the son of IndyCar and NASCAR driver John Andretti, and the grandson of Aldo Andretti, the brother of Mario Andretti. Racing career Andretti began his career in sprint car racing in 2010, and moved onto Supermodified racing in 2012. Andretti won the 2016 Lawrenceburg Speedway track championship in his sprint car. He made one Rolex Sports Car Series start in 2012. He made his debuts in the USAC National Sprint Car, Silver Crown, and Midget scene in 2013, competing in those series through 2017. Andretti won the USAC National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year title in 2014. He returned to sports car racing full-time in 2018, making 10 starts in the 2018 Pirelli World Challenge, while still competing in 24 USAC National Sprint Car races. In 2019, he raced in the 2019 GT4 America Series, driving a McLaren for Andretti Autosport in their first foray into the series. On April 12, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andretti Racing
''Andretti Racing'' is a video game developed by American studios High Score Productions and Stormfront Studios and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1996, and for Windows in 1997. The game's title refers to legendary racing drivers Mario Andretti and Michael Andretti. Reception The PC and Saturn versions received favorable reviews, while the PlayStation version received mixed reviews. ''Game Informer'' gave the PlayStation version a very favorable review, about two months before it was released Stateside. In Japan, where the same PlayStation version was ported and published by Electronic Arts Victor on 28 March 1997, ''Famitsu'' gave it a score of 22 out of 40. Reviewing the PlayStation version in an early review, the two sports reviewers of ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'' praised the accurate racing, four-player compatibility, animation, and controls. Air Hendrix wrote in ''GamePro'' that the graphics are below-average for the PlayStation and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Andretti
Tyler Andretti is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Action Andretti. Professional wrestling career Andretti was trained to wrestle by MCW Pro Wrestling, debuting in November 2019. Over the following year, he primarily appeared with MCW Pro Wrestling in Maryland and Virginia. In June 2021, Andretti debuted with Game Changer Wrestling, competing in a scramble match on its "Zombie Walk" pay-per-view. Over the rest of 2021, he appeared with MCW Pro Wrestling, Game Changer Wrestling, and other promotions in the northeastern United States including National Championship Wrestling, Pennsylvania Premiere Wrestling, and the Susquehanna Wrestling Organization. In November 2021, he won the Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup promoted by MCW Pro Wrestling. Beginning in January 2022, Andretti began appearing regularly with Combat Zone Wrestling. In October 2022, he defeated Brian Johnson to win the MCW Heavyweight Championship. In Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walkinshaw Andretti United
Walkinshaw Andretti United is an Australian motor racing team based in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton. The team currently fields two Holden ZB Commodores in the Supercars Championship for Nick Percat and Chaz Mostert, along with a Porsche 911 GT3-R in the Australian GT Championship. Formed in 1990 as the Holden Racing Team, it is one of the most successful Supercars Championship teams in the history of the category, having won the drivers' championship six times, the teams' championship five times and the series' signature race, the Bathurst 1000, eight times. In 2017, the Holden Racing Team name was transferred by Holden to Triple Eight Race Engineering and the team was renamed Mobil 1 HSV Racing. For the 2018 season, the team was rebranded Walkinshaw Andretti United, as Andretti Autosport and United Autosports become shareholders. 1980s As part of the joint venture established in 1987 between Tom Walkinshaw and Holden to form Holden Special Vehicles, Tom Walkinshaw R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
