In 1969, Aldo suffered severe damage to his face after crashing during a sprint car race in Des Moines. Aldo competed in 16 USAC national sprint car races between 19, finishing 51st in points in 1967. Mario won Aldo, suffering brake failure, finished tenth. Aldo continued racing on the USAC and IMCA circuits in 1967, a race at Oswego Speedway saw the only occasion where Mario and Aldo raced head to head.

He recovered from his coma, and he returned the following season. Aldo fractured his skull in a serious crash near the end of the season. They each had two wins after the first four weeks. Aldo won the coin toss, the heat race and the feature.

They flipped a coin to see who would race in the first race. Racing career Īldo and Mario rebuilt a 1948 Hudson Commodore into a stock car in 1959, and began racing it without telling their parents. In 1956, the family settled in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and the brothers were able to rekindle their interest in motorsports, when they discovered an oval track in their home town. In 1954 Seggiolini and Biagini expressed their gratitude by taking Aldo and Mario to a trip to the Monza, where they saw Alberto Ascari racing. The boys would soon perform menial jobs for them, including parking customer cars although they were both underage and did not have a driving license. In 1954 Aldo and Mario befriended Sergio Seggiolini and Beppe Biagini, who ran an auto-repair shop across the street. Quirino would use a motorbike to visit his parishioners and Aldo and Mario would occasionally ride their bike with his tacit approval. They lived in a refugee camp from 1948 to 1955 until they were able to move to a two-room flat with the help of their uncle Quirino, who was a priest.

His family, like many other Istrian Italians, fled in 1948 during the Istrian–Dalmatian exodus. After World War II Istria (which is now part of Croatia) became a part of Yugoslavia. Aldo and Mario were identical twins.Īldo and Mario were born in Montona, Kingdom of Italy, now Motovun, Croatia, where their father, Gigi, managed a 2,300-acre (930 ha) farm. He was the uncle of Michael Andretti and Jeff Andretti, great-uncle of Marco Andretti, and grandfather of Jarett Andretti. Aldo Andretti (Febru– December 30, 2020) was an Italian-born American racing driver and entrepreneur, the twin brother of Mario Andretti and the father of Carolyn Andretti Molander, Mark Andretti, John Andretti, Mary Jo Andretti Dial, and Adam Andretti.

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