He was driving for Curb Racingin the last five rounds of the championship, finishing four times in the Top 10. In 1987, John Andretti entered the first league of the American open-wheel racing, the CART Indy Car World Series. In the next two years, he was driving the March-BMW prototypes, claiming the biggest success at 1985 Watkins Glen 500-km race, winning the race together with Davy Jones. He competed in the Formula Vee, Can-Am Series, USAC Sprint Car Series, but his main focus laid in the IMSA GTP Championship in which he debuted in 1984, driving the A-B Engineering's Argo JM16-Ford. John showed diversity since the beginningĮven in his early days, John Andretti showed that diversity is going to be his main characteristic. He became the rookie of the year and won the regional midget championship. John's first competition with big cars was the 1983 USAC National Midget Series. One of the main rivals in the go-karts was his cousin Michael. Under the influence of his father and uncle, but also Godfather AJ Foyt, John Andretti entered his first race at the age of 9. Michael's son Marco (born 1987) and John's son Jarett (born 1992) are also racers. John's brother Adam is much younger, having been born in 1979. John was born on March 12, 1963, in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, a year after Mario's son Michael (1962) and a year before Mario's other son Jeff (1964). John is the son of Aldo Andretti, Mario's twin brother. After listening to the listener-driven interview after his loss on January 30, 2020, I wanted to take another shot at editing the episode to fix some technical glitches and to trim the show down to the best parts where John spoke on his amazing, multi-faceted career.John Andretti Three generations of Andretti racing dynasty John Andretti's visit to The Week In Ind圜ar show in January of 2018, not long after his colon cancer diagnosis was revealed, was my favorite episode back then and remains so today.
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