This month Pete is recovering from a “close encounter of the surgical kind.” Pete is doing well and will return next month. Please enjoy one of Pete’s best from a very early issue of VRJ. “Absolutely amazing, what you accumulate. Photos, trophies; as we were going through, we thought we had it all then we’d find two, three boxes of plaques. I found the shoes that I wore at Daytona when I won the 500. The uniform that I wore…

According to Andretti, his “go for it” driving style was better suited to Formula One than Champ car racing. Here he is seen, at the wheel of the Lotus 78, en route to victory in the 1977 United States Grand Prix-West.