Mario Andretti got a little pep in the step of that song.

You've heard that a few times, right?

An easy rider for the Charlie Daniels band.

Mario Andretti joining us here on Quarian Company on Fast Friday for the fan.

All right, I asked you, just going into it, the race that sticks in your mind the most that was not 1969 when you won here was which one?

Well, the one that comes to mining clearly and immediately is 1987, driving for Newman

Haas.

And with the Lola, I had my engineer was Adrian Newey, whom I consider one of the top ever,

as far as really understanding, every aspect of the top ever, as far as really understanding,

every aspect of the race car, suspension dynamics, air dynamics.

Anyway, if you look at the record, that was pretty much quickest every single day.

I don't know, on the track, on pole, and think uh i led 171 of 178 uh laps that i was in and uh i had one

one and one and one and one a half lap lead on l answer and uh roberta guerrero would

have been running up there, right?

Yeah, yeah, but again, you know, I dropped the valve.

You know, dropped the valve.

I was, you know, really trying to run conservative on the revs and that's what bit me.

Because unbeknownst to me, I was running in the bed harmonics of the engine.

You know, if I would have been pushed for the lead or something, it would have been better.

You know, because I needed to be like 400 revs more, and that's against everything that everybody's been telling me.

You know, the car was, I was cruising home.

The car was so good throughout the run, you know, from full tanks to empty.

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