-I am honored. Thank you so much for being here.
-Thank you.
-Marco, I've met you before.
I don't know if you remember.
-Yeah, I scared you. You were crying.
[ Laughter ]
-I wasn't crying, but we were driving around in Indianapolis,
and we were going pretty fast.
-Yeah, I told him --
Afterwards, I told him we were only doing 35.
He was like, "What, we were only doing 35?"
[ Laughter ]
-No, no, why was I screaming? We were only doing 35.
I asked him tonight.
I go, "Were we only doing --" He goes, "No."
-We're going 100. -We were doing, like, 100.
Yeah, I know. It was frightening.
But anyways, thank you for being here.
You guys are racing-car royalty.
This family -- did you ever imagine that your generations
of your sons and family would be racing?
-Obviously, it was not really planned. It just happened.
You know, and I'm the one who started this whole mess.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
-And my twin brother, Aldo, you know.
-Yeah.
-And we went from there, you know.
So, and then this, obviously these kids
were exposed to that basic environment.
And it could have been natural, you know, for them to just --
you know, just pursue what I've been doing.
And it turned out to be that, you know.
-How many Andrettis -- how many of your family are racing,
or currently, or was?
-I think the total of eight have raced.
-Eight, actually. -At Indy, yeah.
-I have a twin brother, Aldo, and he has four,
and I have four of these nut cases, you know.
[ Laughter ]
-Have you ever raced each other?
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Do you -- Oh, really, you remember this one?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. We remember it.
[ Laughter ]
-Do you remember who won?
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-You won.
You beat your son by .7 of a second?
-No, .07. -.07.
-Yeah.
-And I got to be -- Did you ever think for one second --
-I won, I won.
-No, no. I know. [ Laughter ]
No, did you ever think for a second --
-It was Father's Day. That's why I let him win.
I had to let him win.
-You never thought, like, hey --
-I'll be very honest with you.
I mean, actually, Michael had the race won.
And I pretty much -- I couldn't catch him.
And about a couple laps from the end,
my engineer was screaming in my ear, and he said,
"Michael's having some fuel pickup problems."
So, we're coming down to drag-race to the finish,
and his engine sputtered a bit, and that's it.
You know, and I clipped him, you know.
So anyway, he was not very happy.
[ Laughter ]
On the podium, he was actually --
-You have to live with it. He's your son.
-Somebody says, "Hey, Michael, lighten up.
It's Father's Day."
-Okay, happy Father's Day, Dad. [ Laughter ]
-That's so sweet of you.
-It was. It was very, very nice.
-That was very sweet of you.
-Right at the last minute, I thought,
"Oh, it is Father's Day. I didn't get him anything."
-So I'll give him a point.
One-hundredth of a second. I'll give him --
-And my wife says, "Why didn't you let your son win?"
I said, "Are you kidding?" [ Laughter ]
"Why didn't you let your son win?"
-Really, you're just competitive.
-Come on. Come on, Dee Ann.
-But what's gonna happen with the Indy 500?
I mean, you got a shot at this?
-Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we run good there every year.
This is a special year.
It's 50 years since he won in 1969.
-Is that right? -Yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Holy mackerel. It's been 50 years.
-Yeah, we're gonna pay tribute to him.
We announced this morning that we -- the livery on my car.
Thank God our sponsor, U.S. Concrete, let us --
we're gonna run it.
It looks exactly like in 1969.
-I saw a picture of it. It looks beautiful.
-Yeah, yep. -That'll be special.
What would that mean to you?
-We needed more pressure, right?
-Yeah, of course. Yeah, exactly, yeah.
Everyone's gonna be watching. -It's very flattering.
-Eyes are gonna be on you. It is, yeah.
-Yeah. -Was that -- is that, like --
-You know, I mean, 50 years to now -- you know,
we're celebrating that, and then we have the family.
We have Marco obviously carrying the colors
to give us some significance, and, you know, you can imagine
that it's gonna be quite special.
-When you won, that was the only --
that was the second time you actually completed?
-That was the second time that I completed in four races
that I competed in, and I finished.
And then, of course, we won.
And it was huge because of --
you know, I was riding for Andy Granatelli.
Very famous. They call him, you know, "Mr. 500."
-Yeah.
-He had efforts there for years and years.
Everything -- all the special --
everything taken outside the box.
The two years before he had the turbine cars.
Very famous. And they almost won.
And so, anyway, when I won,
obviously I was happy for myself, but the entire team,
there was another story with my chief mechanic.
He had famous champions before me that almost won.
And so, I won it for him as well.
So, it was, you know -- -Emotional.
-It was happy times. Yeah, for sure. Very emotional.
-What do you win? The trophy.
What is that -- the six-foot --
-Borg-Warner Trophy. -Yeah.
It's worth $3.5 million.
-It's what?
-It's worth $3.5 million. Yeah.
-You brought it with you guys tonight.
Can I take a look at this thing? -Absolutely.
-Just don't touch it. -I won't touch it. I promise.
Let's look at this.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Look at that.
Oh, my goodness.
Look at that thing!
Now, so, if you can zoom in, if you see, these are all --
this is like "Game of Thrones."
These are all faces -- these are all faces of the winners.
-Look for the nose. Look for the nose.
-Look for the nose. [ Laughter ]
That's how you find your face? -Yeah, exactly.
-You have the biggest nose?
Is that you?
-Look for the nose.
-Oh, yeah. I think, actually, it is.
That is you. [ Laughter ]
I did look for the nose. I found it.
[ Cheers and applause ]
This is amazing.
-And Marco's next.
-And, Marco, hopefully you'll be next on there, buddy.
-That's the plan, man. Good to see you.
-Break a leg. Good to see you, pal.
Thank you so much for coming, you guys.
I appreciate it. [ Cheers and applause ]
On May 26th, another face will be added to the Borg-Warner.
Make sure you tune in to the Indy 500 right here on NBC.