The venture got off to a roaring start, but sputtered after a couple of years, prompting John to turn to his uncle for a boost. Their original concept was to create a corporate-team building and entertainment venue built around kart racing and arcade games. Hamann, a native of Colombia, has been operations director of the enterprise that morphed into AIKG since 2001 when he and John Andretti opened Andretti Speed Lab in Roswell.
“It’s been a tough year for the Andrettis,” said Eddie Hamann, managing partner of AIKG, which is based in Orlando, Florida. He won at virtually every level of motorsports since he arrived in America from his native Italy at age 15.Credit: Alyssa Alyssa Andretti for the day-long media confab and invitation-only celebration was a family entourage, which included his youngest son Jeff nephew Adam, son of Mario’s twin brother Aldo who succumbed to COVID-19 in December and Jarrett, son of Mario’s nephew John Andretti who died of colon cancer in January 2020 at age 56. He has won races in sports cars, sprint cars, and stock cars. He won the Indy Car National Championship four times and was a three-time winner at Sebring. He has won the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, and the Formula One World Championship. He was named Driver of the Year in three different decades (the 60s, 70s, 80s), Driver of the Quarter Century (in the 90s), and the Associated Press named him Driver of the Century in January 2000. Mario took the checkered flag 111 times during his career – a career that stretched five decades. He is a racing icon, considered by many to be the greatest race car driver in the history of the sport.
Not many have driven a race car better than Mario Andretti. Mario Andretti/Andretti Indoor Karting & Games
Gwinnett Business RadioX was on hand to cover the festivities and spend a few minutes with the racing legend himself.
Located at the $350 million mixed-use development The Exchange at Gwinnett, the newest Andretti Indoor Karting is the company’s 6th location nationwide. Members of the famed Andretti racing family, including world renowned racecar driver Mario Andretti, participated in the day-long celebration and meet-and-greet.
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