The 106 th Indy 500 will mark his first Ind圜ar start since the Brickyard last year.

“But (the Indy 500) is the one I live my life around.” “What I put into it, I felt I wasn’t getting out of it for various reasons,” Marco said of racing full time in Ind圜ar. Marco Andretti said Wednesday he remains very much at peace with his decision to scale back his Ind圜ar schedule to the Brickyard, which always has been the center of his family’s universe as the site of some triumphs and many heartbreaks for him, his father and his famous grandfather, Mario. Marco has always had the courage to chart his own path.” In a statement at the time, his father, Michael, alluded to the pressure that Marco had faced as “for any multi-generational athlete, it can be really challenging to find your own ground and make your own name on top of your family’s. In 2020, he started on the pole position but was unable to lead a lap. When he announced that move 17 months ago, Andretti described it as a “reset” of a racing career that had produced two Ind圜ar victories and some agonizing near-misses and disappointments at the Brickyard (notably a razor-thin loss to Sam Hornish Jr. INDY 500 INFO: Start times, schedules, TV, stats, historical details about the race JIMMIE WATCH: Johnson third fastest on opening day of practice The third-generation driver has adjusted well to a much slower pace since stepping back last year after 15 consecutive full-time seasons in the NTT Ind圜ar Series. INDIANAPOLIS – Just below the Indy 500 Winners Circle at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Marco Andretti wandered up to a group of reporters Tuesday morning with an easygoing gait and a broad smile.

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