“Hopefully, we’ll improve some of that for my journey at COTA.” It’s a very important piece that I didn’t want to take a chance unless I felt the actual command of it. “There was not enough leeway in the adjustment of pedals and the steering permission to make me comfortable enough in the car. “I had trouble fitting in the cockpit properly,” Andretti said. It’s a modified Indy car that features two seats, one behind the other, and is capable of approaching the similar speeds to the current Indy car.Īndretti had some issues with seat positioning, steering wheel, and pedal locations in the 2013 McLaren because of the way it is constructed.
Thanks to McLaren’s Zak Brown, he made that available to me and it looks like I’m going to have a couple more sessions at COTA this weekend.”Īndretti drives the Ruoff Mortgage Ind圜ar “Two-Seater” – a program that gives VIP and other paying customers high-speed rides around race courses on the Ind圜ar schedule. “It’s a modern enough car to get me to have the real feel of what the current car feels like in so many ways. “It was purely something I was looking forward to, as you can imagine,” Andretti told me.
I had an exclusive interview with the racing legend earlier this week just after he returned from Monterey, California and before he left for Austin, Texas for this week’s round on the Formula One World Championship. Andretti’s F1 ride was arranged by McLaren CEO Zak Brown during a private event that featured a number of classic McLarens.
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