A new contender for a 2023 F1 seat?
The 1978 F1 World Champion was given the opportunity to take the wheel of a 2013 McLaren MP4/28 at the Velocity Invitational at Laguna Seca, thanks to McLaren CEO Zak Brown.
The 82-year-old took his time to get to grips with the car on track, as evidenced in the video below, but ramped up his speed as he became more comfortable with the machine – a considerably different beast to what he raced during his own F1 career. “Some corners, I had it right, others I didn’t. If you don’t get it right, the power falls off tremendously. So I just need to put the full lap together, and I’d feel a lot better.”
Unsurprisingly, despite the run being simply a fun few laps to get a feel for a contemporary machine, Andretti’s racing instincts took over as he pointed out the areas in which he’d struggled.
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