He is considered by large parts of the motorsport community as the greatest racing driver of all time. He’s won the Ind圜ar National Championship four times and was a winner in sports cars, sprints, and stock cars, He’s basically won everything ,ever! We’re joined by a man who won the Indy 500, the Daytona 500, the Formula One World Championship and even the Pikes Peak Hillclimb. It doesn't get much bigger or better than this. The Grand Prix became firmly established as the biggest race in Europe, and in 1908 the US Grand Prize (as it was then called) was held on a 17-mile course on roads around the Island of Hope district of Savannah, Georgia.Ep 60 with Mario Andretti (F1 & Ind圜ar Champion) The first ever Grand Prix, for which the ‘Big Prize’ was 45,000 French francs (equal to 28 lb of gold) was held over two days on June 26-27, 1906 on a 64-mile course on closed roads around the historic city of Le Mans. From now on, closed loops of roads – circuits – would become the norm. This aspect was to prove decisive in the evolution of racing, because in 1903, city-to-city events were outlawed due to unmanageable public safety concerns. The Gordon Bennett Cup raced on a route that started and ended at the same place, further building excitement and making it easier for the press to capture the stories and photographs that they needed to fill their pages. It all started when American newspaper baron, James Gordon Bennett, seized upon the excitement that new city-to-city racing fostered and through his newspapers, the New York Herald and the International Herald Tribune, and established the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1900 as a new European event.
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