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Long Beach '77 - Andretti's unique home victory
Despite the fact that there have been some 53 world championship Formula One races on US soil, only one American has triumphed at home - Mario Andretti. On the eve of the 2014 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix we remember Andretti’s famous 1977 triumph at Long Beach, a race which proved beyond doubt the value of pushing all the way to the chequered flag…By 1977 Mario Andretti could lay claim to having won the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500, as well as two world championship Grands Prix and a host of other titles. But the one thing the ‘Racer’s Racer’ hadn’t done was score a Formula One victory on home soil. Nor, for that matter, had any other...
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