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Originally Posted by Por_sha911
Mario has 1 Indy 500 win.
Michael and Marco have none.
I'm not sure I want to learn from them. If I had to pick one mentor (for the 500) it would be Rick Mears.
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You might want to rethink that. Mario and Michael should each have won the race as many times as Mears, had their cars not failed so often from minor mechanical failures. Mario had more than a dozen mechanical failures and led the most laps of a race without winning many times. I can think of three races where his car crapped out on him while he was leading the race.
Michael has completed the most laps and led the most laps of any driver that has never won the event. He's only had one non-finish due to a brush with a wall, all of his other DNF's were mechanical. Some of his mechanical failures occurred while he had a big lead late in a race.
Marco has not had the best of careers but he's usually in the hunt at Indy. He had one race that he lost in the final hundred yards by a few hundreths of a second. He's usually in the top 5.
Don't forget, Andretti's team won last years race,
with a rookie in the car.
JR