



And we sort of kidded around a bit about it whenever we saw each other, and then at Miami, in front of Martin Brundle, he says it again, and now it's in front of the world. “I said, ‘I’d love to give it a go in this, and Zak said, ‘Well, I'm gonna make it happen for you.’ But then we left it there. “It was two years ago when we were at Goodwood and I sat in a current Formula 1 car they had there, and that was amazing,” Andretti told Road & Track. The promise made by McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown to give Mario Andretti a run in a modern McLaren Formula 1 machine will be fulfilled this weekend in Monterey.įor the 1969 Indianapolis 500 winner and 1978 F1 world champion, the second edition of the Velocity Invitational vintage racing event at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca will thrust the 82-year-old icon into action at a track that played home to many memorable drives and his farewell to Ind圜ar in 1994.
