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Monday, December 16
Updated: December 23, 11:28 AM ET

Michael Andretti
By Robin Miller
ESPN.com

Team: Motorola/Andretti-Green Racing
Nationality: American

Michael Andretti
Andretti

STATS

Year
Rank
Wins
Top 5
Top 10
Poles
Best finish

2002 10 1 4 10 0 1st, Long Beach

Career (CART) 42 136 185 32

2002 recap
The good: The 1991 CART champion flashed his old form a half a dozen times, with one victory, a pair of seconds and a third place, in what turned out to be his 19th, and final, season in champ cars. Also in position to win at Indy before a poor final pit stop.

Season highlight: At Long Beach, where he started 15th, caught a couple of perfect yellows and drove off with his second win at The Beach -- 19 years after scoring his first-ever CART victory in the California streets.

The bad: Only managed one top-five finish in first eight races.

Season lowlight: Crashed out of his CART finale at Mexico City.

Michael Andretti and Dario Franchitti
Michael Andretti, left, is bringing Dario Franchitti, right, and Tony Kanaan over to the IRL as teammates in 2003.

Key stat: Qualified 12th or worse in 12 of 19 starts.

2003 outlook
CART's all-time winner and lap leader became co-owner of Andretti-Green Racing and will be Honda's factory effort in its initial year with the Indy Racing League. Andretti is taking Dario Franchitti and Tony Kanaan with him to the all-oval series.

Prediction: The 40-year-old legend will likely run the first few IRL shows and give Indianapolis one more try before retiring from Indy cars.

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