If I am going to help you, I want to make sure you are here and focused,’” Jarett Andretti said. “He was like ‘OK, you’re going to go to WeatherTech and you’re going to be running these races,’ Michael is like ‘You can’t go somewhere the weekend before and get hurt in a sprint car and not be ready to race. The team began last year in the Michelin Pilot Challenge before moving up to the WeatherTech series midway through the season.Īnd it was Michael Andretti as well as Jarett’s mother, Nancy, who talked him out of continuing his sprint car career to focus on the IMSA effort. He credited Michael Andretti, owner of Andretti Autosport and his late father’s first cousin, for helping Jarett move the program into IMSA’s top series. John Andretti died in 2020 of colon cancer at 56 years old.Ībstinence not required: How a Baltimore drug treatment program prioritizes saving lives The checkered flag will fall Sunday on the two-year anniversary of his father’s death. The achievement was bittersweet for Jarett Andretti, though. It marked the debut of Andretti Autosport in North America’s most prestigious race Mario Andretti won the race in 1972, Michael Andretti and John Andretti entered it three times and Marco Andretti ran it once, but never for the eponymous family team.
Jarett Andretti started from the pole Saturday in the LMP3 class and held the lead for roughly three hours before turning the car over to his teammate. They got serious about the effort in 2019 but it took three years to achieve their dream. John Andretti and his son eventually set their sights on sports cars and building a program that would someday race in the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
(AP) - Jarett Andretti carved his own path in motorsports alongside his father, where the two began in sprint cars with aspirations to build a bigger program they could take to the next level.
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