Despite this, Andretti continued to race and went on to win 21 modified stock car races 1960 and 46 in 1961. They initially kept their racing secret from their parents until Aldo was involved in a racing accident that prompted him to end his career.
They had built a 1948 Hudson Commodore using money they earned from working in their uncle’s garage, and would take turns behind the wheel. It was that track which would trigger Andretti’s passion for racing.Īndretti and his twin brother, Aldo, began racing on the dirt tracks of Pennsylvania in 1959 at the age of 19. Not long after the move, Andretti and his twin brother Aldo discovered a dirt oval track just down the street. The family was able to immigrate to the United States in 1955, and settled in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Following World War II, his family fled the country and spent the next seven years in a refugee camp. Andretti was born in 1940 in an Italian territory that is now Croatia. Mario Andretti came from humble beginnings to become one of the greatest names in racing. “If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”
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