Anyone who saw the terrifying tape of Mario Andretti’s 200-mph “blowover” at Indianapolis on April 23rd will easily visualize the same guy booting Duncan Dayton’s Lotus 79 around Long Beach 11 days earlier. No, happily, the historic F1 car came back unscathed. But Mario, a racer of legendary stature, sure still loves to gas it.
Apparently he has trouble remembering he’s 63. And who among us doesn’t share that problem? Heck, I’m practically his age, and the very same day that Mario was executing his telegenic multiple backflip-cum-cartwheel at Indy, I was throwing karts around a track in Riverside – off the track, twice or thrice. So, I’m nobody to tell people they’re too old for anything they love to do.
