Everything about Andretti’s talent and driving style should have translated into immediate success. F1 was about the all-out attack, and in Michael, McLaren boss Ron Dennis had a new muse. Al Unser Jr., another American progeny with a famous last name, was also courted by F1, but Andretti was the obvious choice. Extracting bold speed from intense machines was his specialty. The son of 1978 F1 world champion Mario Andretti and winner of the 1991 CART Ind圜ar Series championship was America’s great second-generation hope for grand prix racing. Petersburg Ind圜ar event, sitting in the engineering office at the front of an Andretti Autosport trailer, the 56-year-old inhaled deeply and went back to a place in time that has yet to warrant celebration. Within the concrete parking structure where his team was housed in March for the St. A full 25 years after the messy, life-altering encounter where his career nearly ran aground, Andretti was surprised to learn he’d reached its silver anniversary. Given the decades that have passed, the intense bitterness that marked his McLaren experience has softened, but it’s lighter shades of the same disappointment.
A lone podium finish and a mountain of blame for stumbling on the sport’s biggest stage would soon be worn with the permanence of a bad tattoo.ĭredging up 1993 involves unstitching emotional wounds for Andretti. Ind圜ar’s best driver, heading east in 1993 to test his mettle against F1’s titans, was shipped home early-three races shy of the finale-in embarrassing circumstances.
The look on Michael Andretti’s face suggests dental surgery performed with forks and knives would be more pleasant than discussing his ill-fated Formula 1 season. The best way I can say it to begin with is that he went with the best possible team at the worst possible time.” “This was the most misunderstood situation that you could ever have.
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