Marco Andretti

Andretti won eight races in the 2003 Barber Formula Dodge Eastern Championship and claimed the National and Southern class championship the following year. In 2005 he raced in the Star Mazda series and made six starts in the Indy Pro Series, winning at St. Petersburg, the Liberty Challenge, and Sonoma, finishing tenth in points despite only completing half the season's races.

Motorsports journalist Gordon Kirby reported at the Champ Car finale in Mexico City that Andretti would replace Dan Wheldon in the No. 26 Jim Beam Dallara-Honda for 2006, with Michael Andretti returning from retirement to field a fifth car for his Andretti Green Racing team at the Indianapolis 500. This was confirmed at a December 15 press conference. Andretti became the youngest driver in Indy Racing League history and traded sponsors — the New York Stock Exchange and Motorola — with Dario Franchitti, as he was not old enough to run an alcohol-sponsored car.

In his rookie start on March 26, 2006, at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the No. 26 New York Stock Exchange Dallara Honda, Andretti broke a half shaft during his first pit stop and was eliminated. At the Indianapolis 500, he finished second to Sam Hornish Jr. by a margin of 0.0635 seconds — the second-closest finish in the race's history — becoming the third Andretti to finish in the top five on his first appearance, after his father (fifth in 1984) and grandfather (third in 1965). On August 27, 2006, at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, Andretti won his first Indy Racing League race at the age of 19 years, 167 days, becoming the youngest winner of a major open-wheel racing event at that time. The record stood until April 2008, when Graham Rahal won the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg aged 74 days younger. Andretti was named the 2006 Bombardier Rookie of the Year.

The 2007 season brought ten non-finishes and only seven completed races. Accidents at events in Japan, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Chicago, as well as at the Mid-Ohio road course, hampered progress. Andretti finished eleventh overall with 350 points.

In 2008, Andretti finished second at Homestead-Miami Speedway and third at the Indianapolis 500, leading several laps of that race. At the Milwaukee Mile he captured his first IndyCar pole position, becoming the youngest IndyCar pole winner at 21 years, 79 days, but crashed with three laps remaining; his car collected Ed Carpenter, which sent Vítor Meira airborne over Andretti's tire. He finished seventh in the final standings.

In 2009, Andretti was involved in a disputed incident at Indianapolis with Mario Moraes, who Andretti publicly called "clueless." He finished eighth in the championship. That year he also benefited from A1 Grand Prix experience on street circuits, finishing sixth at Long Beach from nineteenth on the grid.

On June 25, 2011, Andretti won his second IndyCar Series race at Iowa Speedway. It was his first win in 79 races since his 2006 Sonoma victory.

In 2012, Andretti led the most laps at Indianapolis — 59 — but hit the turn 1 wall on lap 188. He secured his second career pole at Fontana late in the season and finished sixteenth in the standings.

The 2013 season was his strongest in terms of points. He finished third at São Paulo to briefly take the championship lead by eleven points over Takuma Sato. At the Indianapolis 500 he qualified third, led 31 laps, and finished fourth after two late yellow flags. He set the track record for the fastest lap at Pocono and earned his fourth career pole there. He finished fifth in the final standings — his career best.

Before the 2018 season, Andretti Autosport announced that Andretti and teammate Alexander Rossi would swap car numbers: Rossi moved to No. 27 while Andretti took No. 98. Following disappointing 2018 and 2019 campaigns with no podium finishes, Andretti qualified on the pole for the 2020 Indianapolis 500, posting an average speed of 231.068 mph — the first Andretti to start on the Indy 500 pole since his grandfather Mario in 1987. He quickly faded after the start and finished thirteenth.

In January 2021, Andretti announced he would step away from full-time IndyCar racing, continuing in a testing and development role for Andretti Autosport and competing part-time, primarily at the Indianapolis 500. He finished nineteenth in 2021, twenty-second in 2022, seventeenth in 2023, twenty-fifth in 2024, and twenty-ninth in 2025. On October 29, 2025, Andretti announced his retirement from motor racing on social media, ending a career of 253 IndyCar starts and 20 Indianapolis 500 appearances.

After stepping away from full-time IndyCar racing, Andretti joined Tony Stewart and Ray Evernham's Superstar Racing Experience (SRX), running the No. 98 stock car. He scored his first SRX victory at Slinger Speedway in 2021 — his first win in any form of motorsport since his 2011 IndyCar win at Iowa Speedway. In 2022, Andretti won the SRX Series championship, beating Ryan Newman by two points, despite not winning a race during the season.

Andretti tested a Honda Racing F1 car at Jerez, Spain, in December 2006 and again in February 2007. On the second test's final day, in changeable conditions, his fastest time was less than one second slower than that of Fernando Alonso, though several seconds slower than Honda driver Rubens Barrichello. Andretti stated he wished to enter Formula One only after winning the Indianapolis 500.

He drove in the American Le Mans Series Sebring 12-hour race in March 2008 for Andretti Green Racing, and later that same day in the IndyCar race at Nashville. At the 2008 Petit Le Mans, Andretti, Franck Montagny, and Tony Kanaan retired their XM Radio Acura late with a seventh-place finish in LMP2. In 2012, Andretti made his Rolex Sports Car Series debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona, finishing tenth overall with Ryan Hunter-Reay, Michael Valiante, Scott Mayer, and Miguel Potolicchio.

Andretti competed in the fourth round of the 2014–15 Formula E season in Buenos Aires for Andretti Autosport, replacing Matthew Brabham. He was replaced by Scott Speed for the fifth round in Miami.

In 2022, Andretti made his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut at the Charlotte Roval in the No. 48 Chevrolet Camaro for Big Machine Racing, finishing thirty-sixth after an accident with 22 laps remaining. In 2023, he made his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado for Spire Motorsports, finishing nineteenth. He ran the final two races of that Truck season for Spire as well. In 2024, at Circuit of the Americas, the rear end assembly completely detached from his Truck and he finished thirty-first. Also in 2024, Andretti was set to run up to fourteen races in the No. 17 Chevrolet for CRT across the ARCA Menards Series, East, and West.

Andretti lives in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, having purchased his childhood home from his father for $2 million. In September 2017 he married model Marta Krupa, sister of Joanna Krupa. In December 2021 Andretti announced on Instagram that the two were parting ways. He became a father in September 2024. In May 2025, Andretti presented a plan to convert his grandparents' house in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, into a multi-unit development; the city's planning commission approved the plan despite neighbors' objections.

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