MEANTTOBE: Mario Andretti looks back on a remarkable career 50 years after his defining win at Indianapolis

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YOU CAN FIND THE footage on YouTube, a faded Kodachrome snippet recalling the Zapruder film. Even at this grainy remove, it's still startling, though, how quickly it happens: the car hitting the turn 4 wall and erupting into a fireball, shedding wheels and bodywork as it slides across the track toward the infield, not yet fully stopped when a figure in white improbably leaps from the wreckage and runs to the fence. At a time when such a crash quite often proved lethal, that Mario Andretti had gotten away with only some burns to his face bordered on the miraculous.