![]() ![]() ![]() The young Italian, just 26 at the time of his win, had become an American citizen, embraced everything about his new country-including its love affair with oval racing-and arrived at Daytona riding a wave of momentum as one of Indy car's burgeoning stars. If anything, the experience hardened Mario at a crucial period in the sport. And definitely not when those saboteurs were the men in charge of running his car.įifty years after the living legend barnstormed NASCAR's biggest race, ruffled plenty of feathers on the way to Victory Lane, and walked off with its greatest prize, Andretti isn't sore about the shoddy treatment by the Ford factory Holman Moody team. Mario Andretti was never meant to win the Daytona 500 in 1967. ![]()
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