The most significant complication and challenge for Josie, though, is her rocky relationship with her father, Michael Andretti.

The installation of the roll cage was ultimately credited by many with saving the life of Mario Andretti, who crashed violently in a Mk.

Lotus and Mario Andretti took the titles with their 78 and 79 ground effect cars and neither Hunt nor Mass's replacement Patrick Tambay were able to seriously challenge with the non ground effect M26.

Texaco has also has also been involved in open wheel racing, sponsoring the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston along with sponsoring drivers like Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti and his son Michael.

In the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring race, Peter Revson and McQueen ( driving with a cast on his left foot from a motorcycle accident two weeks before ) won with a Porsche 908 / 02 in the 3 litre class and missed winning overall by 23 seconds to Mario Andretti / Ignazio Giunti / Nino Vaccarella in a 5 litre Ferrari 512S.

Mears becoming the third four-time winner after a late-race duel with Michael Andretti in 1991, and Al Unser, Jr. finally securing victory by defeating last-place-starting driver Scott Goodyear by 0. 043 of a second in 1992, the closest finish in race history to date.

Michael Andretti, who had left his long-time ride at Newman-Haas Racing because he wanted to run the Indianapolis 500 again ( something they weren't willing to do ), bought a majority interest in CART's Team Green, who returned to Indianapolis in 2002 with Dario Franchitti, Paul Tracy and Michael Andretti, and moved it to the IRL that same year as Andretti Green Racing, and in 2004 former CART champion Bobby Rahal's operation moved to the IRL as Rahal Letterman Racing.

Kraft and Nabisco sponsored a part-time Sprint Cup effort in car # 81 driven by Jason Keller and John Andretti and fielded by Dale Earnhardt, Inc. Nabisco also sponsored Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the 2010 Subway Jalapeño 250 at Daytona International Speedway in July, 2010 with their Oreo / Ritz brand's and Tony Stewart with the Ritz brand in the 2010 DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway in 2010.

Back in Chicago, Norma tells King's club partner Sal Andretti ( Norman Chancer ), that King is having a gay affair with Victor.

Mario Andretti won the race, with Lauda withdrawing due to the dangerous conditions.

During this event, McCluskey is credited with pulling Mario Andretti to safety-and thus saving his life-after Andretti had seriously crashed his Ford GT 40 when a front brake locked.

De Cesaris touched wheels with the Alfa Romeo of Mario Andretti at the start of the 1981 Monaco Grand Prix.

Berger had a number of spectacular incidents during the season including a clash with rookie Michael Andretti at the start of the 1993 Brazilian Grand Prix and a dramatic impact with the armco at the 1993 Portuguese Grand Prix having just exited the pits.

Waltrip started in NASCAR Winston Cup, NASCAR's top racing series at age 25, on May 7, 1972, at the 1972 Winston 500, at Talladega, Alabama, the series ' fastest and longest track, with a used Mercury Cyclone which was originally the 1967 Ford driven by Mario Andretti to victory in the 1967 Daytona 500.

After spending 1977 with Tyrrell, he moved back to Lotus for the 1978 season as " number two " driver to Mario Andretti.

His teammate Mario Andretti won the Drivers ' Championship with Peterson acting effectively as the Team " No. 2 " with the pair scoring four 1 – 2 wins, all with Mario at the lead.

Both of Peterson's wins occurred when Andretti encountered trouble, with Mario winning once when Peterson failed to finish ( not including the Italian Grand Prix ).

Many of the most legendary drivers of the past 50 years have raced there including Ted Horn, Parnelli Jones, AJ Foyt, Bobby and Al Unser, Mario Andretti, Larry Dickson, Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Gordon.

Foyt, Mario Andretti, Johnny Rutherford, Parnelli Jones, Johnnie Parsons, and Al Unser Jr., as well as NASCAR Sprint Cup champions Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart.

American Mario Andretti, after qualifying in an excellent third position, was disqualified when the engine in his Parnelli stalled on the grid and his crew push started him.

Andretti gave the home crowd a charge when he was fastest on Friday in the British-designed, California-built Vel's Parnelli Jones car, just two weeks after its Canadian debut.

A lap down in fifth was British driver John Watson in a Penske PC3 with Mario Andretti sixth in a Parnelli VPJ4B.

Reutemann took pole with Hunt alongside on the front row, with home hero Mario Andretti third in a Parnelli.

Mario Andretti had moved from fifteenth on the grid to ninth in the Parnelli VPJ 4B-Ford, including the fastest lap to that point, but was finished when he lost the water in his engine ( although he didn't actually stop until lap 15 when the engine had completely cooked ).

Parnelli secured the services of ex-Team Lotus designer Maurice Philippe and driver Mario Andretti for USAC racing in the early 1970s, and in 1974 decided to move into Formula One racing, with financial support from tire manufacturer Firestone.

Chris Amon, Mario Andretti, Jack Brabham, John Cannon, Mark Donohue, Vic Elford, George Follmer, Masten Gregory, Dan Gurney, Jim Hall, Phil Hill, Denny Hulme, Jacky Ickx, Parnelli Jones, Roger McCluskey, Bruce McLaren, Paul Newman, Jackie Oliver, Sam Posey, Peter Revson, Pedro Rodríguez, Swede Savage, Jo Siffert, John Cordts, David Hobbs, Jackie Stewart and John Surtees all drove Can-Am cars at one time or another.

The front four, Andretti, Villeneuve, Jabouille and Lauda, were far enough ahead to avoid any drama, but Peterson had made a poor start from fifth and was immediately passed by Alan Jones, Jacques Laffite and John Watson.

Many famous athletes have been featured in the series, including Rob Ray, Andre Agassi, Ray Allen, Michael Andretti, Carmelo Anthony, Gilbert Arenas, Lance Armstrong, Paul Bearer, Rich Beem, Drew Bledsoe, King Kong Bundy, Bill Bradley, Drew Brees, Kobe Bryant, Mark Buehrle, Kurt Busch, Jennifer Capriati, Brandi Chastain, Chris Chelios, Roger Clemens ( who was in 5 of them, the most of any athlete ), Sidney Crosby, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Carl Edwards, Roger Federer, Kevin Garnett, Ozzie Guillén, Mia Hamm, Jim Harbaugh, Evander Holyfield, Tim Hudson, LeBron James, Keyshawn Johnson, Roy Jones Jr., Jim Kelly, Alexi Lalas, Bobby Labonte, Lennox Lewis, Mark McGwire, Shawn Micheals, Gheorghe Muresan, Dwyane Wade, Steve Nash, Candace Parker, Chris Paul, Gaylord Perry, Adrian Peterson, Michael Phelps, Mary Lou Retton, Ben Roethlisberger, Tony Romo, Pete Sampras, Maria Sharapova, Andriy Shevchenko, Jerry Stackhouse, Kerri Strug, Fernando Vargas, Adam Vinatieri, Shaun White, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Tiger Woods, David Wright, Alexander Ovechkin, and The Undertaker.

Many accidents happened during the race: Jochen Mass and James Hunt tangled at Mirabeau, and Patrick Depailler got embroiled in their accident ; Clay Regazzoni hit the chicane and suffered damage ; John Watson spun and stalled the engine of his car ; Pryce hit the barrier and had to retire ; Mario Andretti entered the pits with his car on fire ; Mark Donohue hit the barrier, whilst Alan Jones broke a wheel.

The race finished in that order ; with Andretti taking a dominant victory from Lauda, who closed in on the championship, and Jones who took his second podium in three races.

After one lap, the order was Villeneuve, Watson, Lauda, Reutemann, Andretti, Alan Jones, James Hunt and Peterson.

Andretti was dropping back in fourth, having chosen the wrong Goodyears and a poor top gear, and Jones was closing on him quickly.

This left Reutemann in the lead, ahead of Jones, then a long gap back to Andretti.

Andretti, Riccardo Patrese, Jones and Nelson Piquet.

The battle for second, however, was fierce as Jarier, Scheckter, Depailler, Andretti and Jones formed a massive train.

Jones ' Williams teammate Reutemann was third, followed by Nelson Piquet's Brabham, the Ferrari of Gilles Villeneuve and Mario Andretti in his first race for Alfa Romeo.

After one lap, the order was Patrese, Reutemann, Jones, Villeneuve, Piquet, Didier Pironi, Cheever and Andretti.

When former World Champion ( for Williams ) Alan Jones insisted he was not available, Williams contacted another former Champion, American Mario Andretti.

Mario Andretti returned home as the newly-crowned World Champion and put his Lotus 79 on the pole before a record crowd of over 150, 000 fans, but Ferrari's Carlos Reutemann completed a sweep of the two United States races in 1978 by finishing 19 seconds ahead of Australian Alan Jones.

Then, on lap 23, Villeneuve's engine suddenly blew a piston, and Jones, who had overtaken Andretti two laps earlier, inherited second, 35 seconds behind Reutemann.

This led to some bad feeling between Andretti and Jones, and Andretti returned to Lotus for the remainder of the season.

In 1986 Andretti drove a BMW M12 March along with co-driver Davy Jones in the IMSA Camel GT Series.

While the BMWs had limited success in IMSA competition, Andretti and Jones won the Kodak Copier 500 at Watkins Glen on September 21, 1986.

Wallace was replaced by John Andretti, P. J. Jones, and Todd Bodine for some of the races in 2005.