Mario Andretti Quotes

I have had this opportunity to go on a journey and experience the ride of racing cars, of different championships around the world, go-karts, F3, F4, and now F1. It's been so amazing to be able to experience that. There have been bad days, good days, and it's been a great ride.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.

Everyone wants to see racing. This is what F1 is for and this is what it is.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

I'm definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.

In this country, the most popular form of car racing is the huge multibillion dollar industry that's called stock car racing. That's what NASCAR is. That's what the SC stands for in the middle of NASCAR, Stock cars.

I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.

There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply. You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.

I've never been to a race car race before.

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

Why make a movie about Ayrton Senna? Someone who drove around in circles at 200mph in a car that looked like a giant cigarette packet? Why would anyone who isn't already a fan of Formula 1 care?

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

In Colombia maybe 95% of the population follow Formula One. It's crazy.

Everybody who knows Formula 1 knows McLaren and knows that it is the greatest team in Formula 1.

I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races.

I'm a purist, and I love the sport. I loved the '60s and '70s, when the fans even enjoyed the races where only four cars finished, and they were two laps apart.