When Michael Andretti stepped off the podium at the Italian Grand Prix in 1993, he knew he’d just made his last F1 start.
And if you’d asked him back then if he’d ever want to set foot in an F1 paddock again, the answer would almost certainly have been no. Which makes his current desire to get back in as a team owner 30 years later all the more amusing.
Andretti has said that those 13 races in F1 nearly ruined his career. Despite ending on a high, it was a nightmare. And both Michael and his legendary father Mario - the F1 world champion in 1978 who was desperate to see his son succeed there too - believe it might not have been coincidence that Michael’s attempt to crack F1 went so badly.
Could there really have been a conspiracy behind all this? Or was it just bad luck, bad timing, and simply Andretti doing a bad job in the second best car on the grid?
00:00 A nightmare
01:20 Bad timing?
04:21 The Hakkinen factor
06:28 McLaren's role
07:36 Crossing the Atlantic
08:33 Conspiracy theories
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