![]() ![]() You might say that Andretti got his first taste of the need for speed in Montona, Italy, the small hillside village where Andretti and his twin brother, Aldo, were born in 1940. By the time he was doing his best taxi driver impression in the Holland Tunnel, he already knew he wanted to make a career out of going fast. And it certainly wouldn’t be the last time the future racing legend would pull a gutsy maneuver behind the steering wheel. It wouldn’t be the last time Andretti feared the wrath of his father. The car was promptly pulled over by a police officer as soon as the then 16-year-old Andretti and his family emerged from the tunnel. ![]() All was well until he tried to pull off that passing stunt. “My objective was, as soon as I got my driver’s license, I wanted to show my parents I could drive in New York, so we went to New York,” he recalls. But tell that to a young Mario Andretti with something to prove to his parents. There’s no passing in the Holland Tunnel. ![]()
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