Andretti also demonstrated his versatility by winning NASCAR's Daytona 500 two years earlier, all the while continuing to pound the dirt tracks in sprint cars. He also won that year's Ind圜ar Championship, the first of three such titles he would claim in the next five seasons, with success in the 500 coming in 1969. Having switched to single-seater midgets and then sprint cars, by 1965 Andretti was Rookie of the Year at the Indianapolis 500.
However, Mario grabbed the baton with both hands and his career flourished. Yet Mario, together with twin brother Aldo, adapted immediately when they decided to take the plunge.Īlthough both were instant race winners, Aldo's career never recovered from a serious early accident. It was a rough-and-tumble world that seemed about as far as removed from grand prix motor racing as rock 'n' roll was from opera. Ladies and gentleman, we give you 1978 World Champion Mario Andretti.īesides a love of motor racing, just what was it that fuelled Andretti's desire to try anything and everything? The answer lies in his childhood, one spent worshipping Alberto Ascari and even seeing the great Italian double World Champion race at Monza, before his family uprooted and emigrated to the United States in 1955.Īndretti had a love of Formula 1 and was suddenly landed in an alien world: one of stock car rac-ing on dirt tracks at State fairgrounds. Yet there is one man who deliberately set out to really do it all, who danced on the limit longer than anyone and won in a mind-boggling array of disciplines. As for Stirling Moss.well, he's Stirling Moss isn't he? But which driver was the best all-rounder? Graham Hill was the only one to do it in Monaco, Indianapolis and at Le Mans Jim Clark made it look as easy in a Lotus Cortina as he did a Lotus F1 car while John Surtees did it on two wheels as well as four. Anyone who enjoys the game should check out Andretti Racing, a sequel released in 1997.The majority of our legends raced in an era when the world's best contested many categories other than Formula 1. Overall, a solid racer that offers a few new ideas and decent realism, if not earth-shattering. The game's best feature is undoubtedly the innovative "career path" option that tracks your progress from rookie to circuit champion- a really cool feature for its time that was sadly not followed up on by later games.
a nifty little title that challenged racers to a variety of series and then allowed them to spend the resulting prize money as they rose through the ranks to "Championship Cars." The drive was only fair, even for the time, but six different car types. I'm no fan of early 90's 3D polygons in racing games, but Mario Andretti offers pretty cool racing action for its time. Features a fun career mode and a nice selection of different tracks and cars from Sprint Cars, Stock Cars to Formula One and Indy racers.
Nice 3D racer from Canadian racing game experts Distinctive Software.
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