Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is a retired
Italian American world champion
racing driver, one of the most successful
Americans in the history of the sport. He is one of only two drivers to win races in
Formula One,
IndyCar,
World Sportscar Championship and
NASCAR (the other being
Dan Gurney). He also won races in
midget cars, and
sprint cars. During his career, Andretti won the
1978 Formula One World Championship, four
IndyCar titles (three under
USAC-sanctioning, one under
CART), and
IROC VI. To date, he remains the only driver ever to win the
Indianapolis 500 (
1969),
Daytona 500 (1967) and the
Formula One World Championship, and, along with
Juan Pablo Montoya, the only driver to have won a race in the
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500.
No American has won a Formula One race since Andretti's victory at the
1978 Dutch Grand Prix. Andretti had 109 career wins on major circuits.