Mario Andretti

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that's clearly why manufacturers are involved - it's such a good testbed.

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you're into somebody's shop-window or front porch.

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.