Mario Andretti

The son of an Italian immigrant, Mario Andretti and his twin brother Aldo couldn’t afford the cars of their dreams..the Ferrari, Maserati, or Alfa Romeo built in their homeland.  So they started racing a Hudson Horner Sportsman Stock Car on a dirt oval track in 1959. Brother Aldo didn’t last long in the sport. But Mario went on to 21 modified stock car wins in 46 races in 1960 and 1960. Over the next five decades, he would take the flag 111 times, winning at vitually every level of racing. He won the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, the Formula One World Championship and the Pikes Peak Hillclimb. He won the Champ Car National Championship four times and was a three-time winner at Sebring. He won races in sports cars, sprint cars, and stock cars—on ovals, road courses, drag strips, dirt and pavement. He was named Driver of the Year in three different decades (60s, 70s, 80s) and Driver of the Centry in the 1990s. The association Press named in the Driver of the  Century in January 2000. For his full biography and current activities in racing, go to http://www.andretti.com/ 

Marshall Teague 

Teague Had a successful career racing NASCAR. He ended his career as a Formula One driver, and died trying to set a record at the new Daytona Speedway in 1959.  His full biography.

Ray Heppenstall

Born in Pittsburg, PA in 1931, Ray Heppenstall is the great-grandson of the founder of Heppenstall Steel, then the largest family-owned steel company in the U.S. But Ray’s fame would come from the racing world, not his grandfather’s steel industry. More on Heppenstall.