RACING DRIVER

Mario Andretti

1940 - Today

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Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is an American former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from 1968 to 1982, and IndyCar from 1964 to 1994. Andretti won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1978 with Lotus, and won 12 Grands Prix across 14 seasons. In American open-wheel racing, Andretti won four IndyCar National Championship titles and the Indianapolis 500 in 1969; in stock car racing, he won the Daytona 500 in 1967. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mario Andretti has received more than 4,799,089 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Mario Andretti is the 22nd most popular racing driver (up from 25th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Croatian Racing Driver.

Mario Andretti is most famous for being a race car driver. He won the Indy 500 in 1969 and is the only driver to win the Daytona 500, the Indy 500, and the Formula One World Championship.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Mario Andretti ranks 22 out of 1,080Before him are Gilles Villeneuve, Bruce McLaren, Ronnie Peterson, Helmut Marko, Keke Rosberg, and Jacky Ickx. After him are Jim Clark, Clay Regazzoni, Graham Hill, François Cevert, Jack Brabham, and Nigel Mansell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Mario Andretti ranks 52Before him are Denis Law, Mina, Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Patrick Stewart, Nancy Pelosi, and Burhanuddin Rabbani. After him are Eduardo Galeano, James Caan, Tarō Asō, Shahnaz Pahlavi, Nancy Sinatra, and Cliff Richard.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Mario Andretti ranks 17 out of 700Before him are Pope John IV (600), Pope Caius (250), Laura Antonelli (1941), Saint Marinus (275), Leopold Ružička (1887), and Crispus (305). After him are Andrija Mohorovičić (1857), Svetozar Boroević (1856), Aloysius Stepinac (1898), Luka Modrić (1985), Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (1968), and Ivan Ribar (1881).

Among RACING DRIVERS In Croatia

Among racing drivers born in Croatia, Mario Andretti ranks 1