Ladies and gentleman, we give you 1978 World Champion Mario Andretti.īesides a love of motor racing, just what was it that fuelled Andretti's desire to try anything and everything? The answer lies in his childhood, one spent worshipping Alberto Ascari and even seeing the great Italian double World Champion race at Monza, before his family uprooted and emigrated to the United States in 1955.Īndretti had a love of Formula 1 and was suddenly landed in an alien world: one of stock car rac-ing on dirt tracks at State fairgrounds. Yet there is one man who deliberately set out to really do it all, who danced on the limit longer than anyone and won in a mind-boggling array of disciplines. As for Stirling Moss.well, he's Stirling Moss isn't he? But which driver was the best all-rounder? Graham Hill was the only one to do it in Monaco, Indianapolis and at Le Mans Jim Clark made it look as easy in a Lotus Cortina as he did a Lotus F1 car while John Surtees did it on two wheels as well as four. The majority of our legends raced in an era when the world's best contested many categories other than Formula 1.
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