Last week, he watched his Andretti Autosport teammate Colton Herta compete in the GMR Grand Prix. “So I’ve kind of just shifted my focus and really worked on the car and bearing myself in traffic.”īut even when not racing, Andretti hasn’t shed his drivers’ mentality or competitiveness. “I’m a little bummed with the car speed at the moment, and there’s not much you can do about that,” he said.

He won’t have raced in 364 days when he takes the track next Sunday, but found that the rust came off more quickly than he expected during practice Tuesday. Not competing in a full season has him feeling refreshed. A lot of times when it’s 100 degrees out there I’m good watching.” I’m like, ‘Ah man, I wish I was there.’ But a lot of times I don’t.

“But this is the one that I live my life around and stuff like that. “What I put into it, I felt like I wasn’t getting that out for various reasons,” he said. View Gallery: Photos: Rain delays practice for the 106th running of the Indy 500

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