“The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting? You've got to have friends out there. You can't do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.”

American former racing driver

Mario Andretti is an American former racing driver, active from the 1960s through the 1990s. He is best known for winning the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1978 and for his long career across several forms of motorsport. Andretti competed in Formula One from 1968 to 1982 and in IndyCar from 1964 to 1994. He won 12 Grands Prix, four IndyCar National Championship titles, the Indianapolis 500 in 1969, the Daytona 500 in 1967, and the 12 Hours of Sebring three times.