Don henderson mario andretti biography

  • 'If it's at all possible to work it out, we'll be there,' said Andretti's manager Don Henderson about the Las Vegas race.
  • Personal Manager, Mario & Michael Andretti.
  • Golfed with Michael Andretti and Don Henderson.

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    Motorsports locals inducted into hall of fame

    Barry Paton, Todd Paton, Don Henderson and Chris Biro honoured

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    Six local residents with ties to motorsports were recently inducted into the Canadian Drag Racing Hall of Fame.

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    Barry Paton, Todd Paton, Don Henderson, Chris Biro, Sharon Fletcher, Bruce A. Mehlenbacher and Bruce F. Mehlenbacher were inducted during a ceremony Nov. 4 in Montreal.

    Barry Paton drove nitro-kart, stock cars, nitro funny cars and top fuel throughout his career, setting several records while winning countless trophies.

    Barry, a former air force pilot who then became a commercial pilot who was inducted posthumously, smashed the NHRA record of with a quarter-mile run of seconds running a Nova in SS/IA trim.

    The Paton family won the IHRA World Championship in , and Their Ol

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    MARIO: Frustration of Indy Continues

    INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. —  “This place just grinds me. I mean it grinds me a lot. More than any other place. I’ve just never had it easy here. Not even when I won.” --MARIO ANDRETTI

    Mario Andretti was relaxing late on a sunny afternoon with his wife Dee Ann, his twin brother Aldo and a few friends under a huge red and white tent behind Gasoline Alley while his crew was putting a new turbocharged engine into his British-built Lola for Sunday’s Indianapolis

    Qualifying was over, a disappointing kvalificerande session for the defending national champion, but it was time to think ahead to the race, to the times he must make it around the rectangular oval that is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway--and to reflect on the too many times he has failed.

    Andretti won the Indianapolis That was the one after which car owner Andy Granatelli greeted him in Victory Lane with an Italian smooch that made all the photographers ecstatic.

    So, having won, Andre

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    Michael Andretti and Kraco teammate Kevin Cogan may have become the first racers in history yesterday to crash before they even got to the raceway.

    While avfärd for Pocono International Raceway from Mario Andretti’s lakeside home nära Hawley in Wayne County, the helicopter that was carrying their group became tangled in high tension wires and plummeted to the ground. Fortunately the copter hit a tree before reaching the ground, which helped cushion the fall.

    None of the helicopter’s seven occupants was seriously injured, though Andretti and Bob Hinkle, a friend of the Andrettis, were taken to Wayne County Memorial Hospital via a state police car. Andretti was released and returned to the track in another helicopter in time to race.

    Andretti suffered a strained muscle below his left shoulder, bumps on his head, and a cut on his left hand which bled profusely but required no suture.

    Cogan said his back popped out, but he was able to pop it back into place. He climbe