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Mario Andretti
By Allyson Turner
Mario Andretti is arguably one of the greatest race car drivers of all-time. His first Indy race was in 1964 and he finished 11th. A year later, he won his first Indy Car race, the Hoosier Grand Prix, earned Rookie of the Year honors at the Indianapolis 500 and won the USAC Indy Car championship. Andretti has won a total of four Indy Car championships (1965, 1966, 1969, and 1984) and has 52 Indy Car victories. He became the first driver to win Indy Car races in four decades and the first to win races in five decades. In 1968, Andretti entered the Formula One Grand Prix racing circuit, taking the pole position in his very first race -- the Watkins Glen Grand Prix. From 1975 to 1981, he focused mainly on the Grand Prix circuit and won 12 more races and earned 16 additional pole positions. In 1978, he won the Formula One World Championship.
If you hit a parked car and you're sure no one was watching, would you leave a note?
If you could make $10 million a season and not win a championship or make $1 million and win a championship, which would you choose?
If you could be someone else for a day, who would it be?
What characteristics do you admire in other people? Despise?
Whom do you most admire? Why?
If you're talking to someone who has something between their teeth, do you tell them?
Is there something about yourself you'd like to change?
What do you like best about your life? Least?
You have to fly across country, whom would you like to sit next to?
If I were to push "play" on your CD player, what would be playing?
What in your life are you most grateful for?
What is your favorite place in the world?
It's your last meal, where and what do you eat?
If you were stranded on a desert island, what three items would you like to have with you?
What is a perfect day?
If you could be someone of the opposite sex, who would it be?
Mario Andretti is one of only three men to win both the Formula One and Indy Car Championships.
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Playboy's Playmate of the Year.
Hell no!
The $10 million.
A Top Gun fighter pilot.
Paul Newman. He is a man of principle. A no-nonsense, very honest, good friend. He always shows his true colors.
Sort of.
I'd like to be tall.
Bill Gates.
La Boheme.
Surviving.
Venice.
In my mom's kitchen, eating her gnocchi with brown sauce.
A relaxing day with good food, good wine and lots of sunshine.