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Andretti fires successful opening salvo in Argentina
Phillip van Osten
15/01/2026 at 11:4515/01/2026 at 11:53 40 SHARES Share on.. Share on.. Share on.. On this day in 1978, Mario Andretti kicked off his banner championship winning year with Lotus with a lights-to-flag dominant victory in the season-opening Argentine Grand Prix. The American was still driving the team's 78 car in Buenos Aires, but Colin Chapman's revolutionary Lotus 79 ground-effect design was on its way. The trail blazing wing-car It would appear a few months later at the sixth round in Belgium, where Super Mario would clinch the second of the six wins he would achieve that year, en route to his maiden world crown in F1. Argentine Grand prix images Look back Mario...
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