Marco Andretti
| Marco Andretti | |
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Andretti at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2009
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| Nationality |
 American |
| Born | Marco Michael Andretti March 13, 1987 Nazareth, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Related to |
Mario Andretti (grandfather) Michael Andretti (father) John Andretti (cousin) Aldo Andretti (great uncle) Adam Andretti (cousin) Jeff Andretti (uncle) |
| IndyCar Series career | |
| Debut season | 2006 |
| Current team | Andretti Autosport |
| Car no. | 27 |
| Starts | 169 |
| Wins | 2 |
| Podiums | 20 |
| Poles | 4 |
| Fastest laps | 6 |
| Best finish | 5th in 2013 |
| Previous series | |
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2014–15 2012 2008–09 2008 2005 2005 |
Formula E International V8 Supercars Championship A1 Grand Prix American Le Mans Series Infiniti Pro Series Star Mazda Championship |
Marco Michael Andretti (born March 13, 1987) is an American auto racing driver who drives the No. 27 car for Andretti Autosport in the IndyCar Series. He is the third generation of the famous Andretti racing family.
Marco was born to Sandra and eventual IndyCar champion Michael Andretti. Marco's paternal grandfather Mario was a highly successful racing driver, who raced professionally for four decades and had success in the United States and all over the globe in various categories of racing, including winning the Formula One Drivers' Championship in 1978. Other Andretti family members also have had success in various categories of racing.
Andretti won eight races in the 2003 Barber Formula Dodge Eastern Championship, and was champion in the Barber National and Southern class the following year.
Still barely out of high school, he raced in the Star Mazda series in 2005 and also made six starts in the Indy Pro Series. He won three times – at St. Petersburg, the Liberty Challenge, and Sonoma – and finished 10th in points despite only starting half the races.
Motorsports journalist Gordon Kirby suggested at the Champ Car finale in Mexico City that the youngest Andretti would be replacing Dan Wheldon in his No. 26 Jim Beam Dallara-Honda for 2006 with Michael Andretti coming out of retirement to run a fifth car for his Andretti Green Racing team at the Indianapolis 500. Though a novel proposition to some, it was later confirmed in a December 15 press conference that he would move up to the Indy Racing League full-time as the youngest driver in series history and would trade sponsors – the and Motorola – with Dario Franchitti as Andretti was not old enough to run an alcohol-sponsored car.
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