Then he looked down and all the temperature gauges showed hot so he had to back off. Andretti shot into the lead, beating Foyt to the corner. He had no idea whether the Hawk was going to survive 500 miles without overheating. Embarrassed, Andretti enlisted the help of an impostor to fill in for him at the traditional front-row photo shoot - his twin brother, Aldo.Īndretti later said he didn't even think Foyt noticed.Īndretti's problem wasn't pace. Foyt and Bobby Unser.Īndretti suffered burns on his face from the crash.

Despite getting only a day-and-a-half of practice, Andretti qualified on the front row between pole-sitter A.J. McGee questioned the running gear, Colin Chapman used Formula One hubs and uprights.Ī post-mortem showed an overall structural weakness in the hubs, so Chapman withdrew the Lotus cars he’d built for not only Andretti but Jochen Rindt and Graham Hill.Īndretti and Company pivoted to the Hawk. Andretti dominated the speed charts in the Lotus during practice, then two days before the time trials, he suffered a horrific crash. It was very fast but Clint Brawner and Jim McGee - his co-chief mechanics - loathed it.

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