McGee, Granatelli and, as the story goes, Brawner’s wife Kay, took it personally. When the 1970 season dawned, Brawner was no longer with Andretti. “But Andy wanted to do something different and get some fresh air. “I didn’t want to own a team and have that responsibility, but I didn’t want any changes either I wanted to keep our team (Jim McGee, Brawner) together,” said Andretti.
And the first thing he did was get rid of Brawner. Foyt and Mario their big car starts) passed away in 1967, but the team stayed on track thanks to Firestone and then sponsorship from STP and Andy Granatelli.įollowing Andretti’s Indy triumph ( pictured, top), the team – technically owned by Mario – was sold to Granatelli. Al Dean, the owner of the fabled Dean Van Lines Specials (who gave A.J. “I always thought Tom Carnegie started it,” said Mario Andretti, asked about it a couple of days after grandson Marco captured the pole position for the 104th Indianapolis 500.īroadcaster Carnegie did perfect the phrase, “Mario is slowing down!” heard through all the decades of disappointment for the ’69 winner but the original story is that it was a product of an angry woman.Ĭlint Brawner was Mario’s chief mechanic and guiding light from 1964-1969, and his Hawk chassis carried the legend to his lone Indy 500 win in 1969.
The Andretti Curse has its own page on Wikipedia, but nobody can say exactly when it became part of Ind圜ar’s lexicon or who started it or if it’s got some black magic attached to it.
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