Mario Andretti, a four-time winner of the Grand Prix of Long Beach, will be one of two grand marshals for this year’s race.

Andretti-Cadillac, onto the Formula 1 grid. But the American has not achieved this so far. According to his father, Mario Andretti, this has a reason: CEO Greg Maffei does not want the team.

Mario Andretti was born to be a race car driver. The celebrated motorsports superstar won’t even entertain a question about what other position on a racing team he’d have liked to try out if ...