Andy Granatelli, the man who catapulted STP oil company into the consciousness of every IndyCar fan of the 1960s, died today in Santa Barbara, Calif., at the age of 90,
STP-sponsored cars drove to Victory Lane at the Indianapolis 500 in 1969 and ’73, in the hands of Mario Andretti and Gordon Johncock respectively. Yet the near misses with the turbine engined STP-Paxton car of Parnelli Jones in ’67 and the similarly powered Lotus 56 of Joe Leonard in ’68 that earned STP just as much press coverage … More
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