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bluesourkiwi · 10 months

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GPDA Meeting, 1969 South African GP

#denny hulme #jochen rindt #chris amon #mario andretti #jean-pierre beltoise #jackie stewart #jo siffert #jacky ickx #graham hill #classic f1 #f1 #내 꺼

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wheelsgoroundincircles · 2 months

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Mario Andretti

#mario andretti #car #cars #nascar #daytona 500 #nascar cup series #Andretti

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christiangeistdorfer · 5 months

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the crew of 1975 organising a protest at the spanish grand prix due to insecure crash barriers

#despite niki appearing very passionate about insecure crash barriers #it was actually emerson who organised this protest!#of course the fruitiness of men's fashion rears its pretty little head #or just go shirtless a la hunt and ickx!#f1 #classic f1 #formula 1 #f1 1970s #mario andretti #graham hill #jacky ickx #james hunt #jody scheckter #niki lauda #emerson fittipaldi #1970s

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eliotheeangelis · 3 months

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classic team lotus x welcome to japan

crossposted to twitter

#might as well drop this here too #f1 #classic f1 #formula 1 #colin chapman #jim clark #graham hill #jochen rindt #ayrton senna #elio de angelis #nigel mansell #ronnie peterson #mario andretti #jacky ickx #gunnar nilsson #emerson fittipaldi #f1 fancam #my edit

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coolthingsguyslike · 8 months

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#GP Zandvoort #1978 #Ronnie Peterson #Mario Andretti #F1 #Frits van Eldik

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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If everything is under control you are just not driving fast enough.

- Mario Andretti

#andretti #mario andretti #quote #motorsports #speed #driving #drive #racing #motor racing #grand prix #formula one #adrenaline rush

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hottestdriverspoll · 1 month

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BASE YOUR CHOICE ENTIRE ON THEIR LOOKS !!! feel free to add pictures in reblogs and i will reblog them as "publicity" :D <3

#HERE WE GO GUYS!!! OUR FIRST POLL !!!#classic f1 #f1 #formula 1 #formula one #retro f1 #mario andretti #mika hakkinen #hottestclassicf1 #mh vs ma #hottestdriverpoll

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didierpironi · 1 year

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classic f1 drivers as vines, inspired by @k-ky

#phew #classic f1 #ayrton senna #alain prost #ronnie peterson #mario andretti #gerhard berger #niki lauda #gilles villeneuve #didier pironi #michael schumacher #mika hakkinen #nigel mansell #elio de angelis #james hunt #jody scheckter #andrea de cesaris #keke rosberg

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coimbrabertone · 5 days

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I Guess We Gotta Talk About Andretti...

So, I've been rather negative when it comes to modern F1 on this blog, and unfortunately, we gotta go there again this week.

So, this week, at Indycar's Long Beach Grand Prix - which turned into a pretty good race at the end - Mario Andretti was interviewed when it comes to his son, Michael's, bid to bring Andretti to Formula One as an eleventh team.

Mario, the 1978 Formula One World Champion, said that he's offended and finds it ridiculous that F1 has rejected the application, that Andretti has worked hard to create a deal with GM, has promised to support drivers in F2 and F3, and that value is added to Formula One by having an eleventh team. Basically, Andretti has met every hurdle that FOM has put ahead of them, and what have the FOM and the teams done in turn?

The teams are trying to get a ten-team limit put into the new Concorde Agreement.

Do I think that Andretti would instantly fix all my problems with modern F1? No.

Do I think F1 would be more interesting with another team? Yes.

Why? Because first of all, so many drivers have been stuck on the outside because there's too few seats in F1. Felipe Drugovich is doing fuck all this season because he couldn't get an F1 drive as a runaway F2 champion. Theo Pourchaire, the next F2 champion, is about to do his second Indycar race this weekend with Arrow McLaren. Mick Schumacher, Callum Ilott, and Robert Shwartzman are all in sports cars after super promising F3 and F2 careers. Marcus Armstrong is in Indycar, Louis Deletraz in IMSA, etc, etc.

Even Oscar Piastri, who has one of the most successful junior careers of recent memory, had to take a year off and ended up debuting with McLaren instead of Alpine.

All of these guys who could have F1 seats are instead doing amazing things in other series. Meanwhile, Lance Stroll has an Aston seat because his dad owns the team, Yuki Tsunoda has an Alpha Tauri seat because Honda wants a Japanese driver, and Daniel Ricciardo is his teammate for reasons that even Red Bull seems puzzled about at this point.

Adding two seats in F1 could improve that situation.

At least one of those seats would likely go to an American, and maybe Logan Sargeant has soured some people's tastes towards that, but hey, if you're going to have three races in the US, you're gonna need American talent to help support that interest.

Haas sure as hell isn't doing a good job of being an American team. Hell, Haas isn't doing a good job of much of anything. They have no ambition, they have two safe, boring, older drivers who will score a few points every once in awhile and let the team collect its prize money check at the end of the season. There's nothing exciting about that, Haas isn't going to have some young charger to breathe life into the back of the grid, Haas isn't going to master the 2026 regulations and give some amazing Brawn storyline, they don't even make their own cars - they have Dallara do it.

Andretti is going to have more ambition than that, I can guarantee that if nothing else. Andretti has three full time cars in Indycar, a bunch of cars in Indy Lights, two cars in IMSA in association with Wayne Taylor Racing, and is potentially laying the groundwork for a move into NASCAR as well.

Marco Andretti is in Trucks while Gainbridge, a major investor in Andretti, has been popping up on the Spire cars, along with rumors that Gainbridge and Andretti wanting to buy into the team.

All of this along with a share in an Australian Supercars team, a Formula E team, and Extreme E. They're a global team that isn't afraid to spend money. They're trying to win championships in series across the world.

F1 doesn't think all of that is good enough.

Why? Because that would mean the teams have to split money eleven ways instead of ten. That's it. That's the entire reason.

Paddock space? Space for twenty-six cars is written into the rules.

Value added? Look at all that stuff above, Andretti isn't coming to F1 to fuck around, and even if it was, half the grid is doing the same thing.

It's all about the money.

As much as I fully believe Andretti is overqualified for F1, I almost want them to say fuck it and abandon F1, put the money into the rest of your series. Marcus Ericsson, Kyle Kirkwood, and Colton Herta are competitive each and every week in an Indycar series where being a few tenths off could put you at the back of the field. The #10 and #40 WTR Andretti cars in IMSA are major championship threats. Plus, if Andretti can get that Spire deal and get into NASCAR, that's a sport that's experiencing its own resurgence in popularity.

I know NASCAR is very much focused in the US but having 4.3 million viewers for Talladega this last weekend is four times the ratings that F1 pulls, and everyone's talking about how big F1 is becoming in the US. F1 is getting all these American sponsors and American races, but whenever it comes to letting more Americans into the sport, there's always this hostility.

Motorsports is more than just F1, and the more F1 turns up its nose at the rest of motorsports, the more it alienates fans like me.

Which is a damn shame, because F1 was my first love in motorsports.

#f1 #formula 1 #formula one #motorsports #racing #indycar #imsa #formula #formula e #formula 2 #formula 3 #Mario Andretti #Michael Andretti #Andretti

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charlielebrown · 7 months

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a pre-season sketch dump i found in my camera roll. (made on pierre's 27th birthday)

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#my art #sergio perez #daniel ricciardo #lewis hamilton #jackie stewart #mario andretti #yuki tsunoda #nyck de vries #fernando alonso #emerson fittipaldi #oscar piastri #lando norris #niki lauda #lance stroll #alain prost #carlos sainz #mick schumacher #zhou guanyu #yeah and lawrence stroll too

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frenchcurious · 15 days

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Mario Andretti (Autodelta - Alfa Romeo T33/TT/12 #11512-008) vainqueur avec Arturo Merzario des 1000 km de Monza 1974. © Motorsport. - source Carros e Pilotos.

#alfa romeo #mario andretti #arturo merzario #1000 km de monza

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indycarnocontext · 23 days

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