'It basically came down to control issues in the final hours of the negotiations. 'That couldn't be further from the truth,' he said.

'I'd just like to put an end to some of these rumours that the deal fell through because of financial reasons,' the Andretti Autosport boss told reporters after announcing rookie Devlin DeFrancesco as his latest Ind圜ar signing. motor racing entrepreneur Michael Andretti said on Thursday that 'control issues' had led to the collapse of takeover talks with the owners of Sauber, who run the Alfa Romeo Formula One team.Īndretti - a former Ind圜ar champion, F1 racer and son of 1978 Formula One world champion Mario - had been in advanced talks with Sauber ahead of last month's U.S. Michael Andretti says 'control issues' killed Sauber F1 deal In American popular culture, his name has become synonymous with speed, as with Barney Oldfield in the early twentieth century and Stirling Moss in the United Kingdom.You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser With his final Ind圜ar win in April 1993, Andretti became the first driver to have won Ind圜ar races in four different decades and the first to win automobile races of any kind in five. He was also one of only three drivers to have won major races on road courses, paved ovals, and dirt tracks in one season, a feat that he accomplished four times. He was the only person to be named United States Driver of the Year in three decades (1967, 1978, and 1984). Andretti had 109 career wins on major circuits.Īndretti had a long career in racing. No American has won a Formula One race since Andretti's victory at the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix. To date, he remains the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 (1969), Daytona 500 (1967) and the Formula One World Championship, and, along with Juan Pablo Montoya, the only driver to have won a race in the NASCAR Cup Series, Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500. During his career, Andretti won the 1978 Formula One World Championship, four Ind圜ar titles (three under USAC-sanctioning, one under CART), and IROC VI. He also won races in midget cars, and sprint cars. He is one of only two drivers to have won races in Formula One, Ind圜ar, World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR (the other being Dan Gurney). Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is an Italian-born American former racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport.

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