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- Mario Andretti was one
- of the few auto-racing
- drivers to compete
- successfully in all three
- types of racing -- Indy
- car, stock car, and Formula One. He is the
- only driver ever to win the Formula One
- championship, the Indy car championship,
- and the Daytona 500 stock-car race!
-
- Mario fell in love with racing as a small boy
- in Italy. He and his twin brother, Aldo, spent
- much of their spare time at racing garages.
- The two boys raced for a while on a junior
- circuit in their early teens.
-
- The family moved to the United States in
- 1955 and settled in Nazareth, Penn-
- sylvania. Mario went to work in a
-