F1 hasn’t had an American driver on the grid since Logan Sargeant was unceremoniously dropped by Williams in the middle of last year.

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.

1989: Unser Jr. bumps Mario Andretti’s car, causing the latter to crash — and paving the way for his second Long Beach win.

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 ...