Andretti retires

disappointing 13th in the Indianapolis 500.
-- and apparently last -- appearance at the Brickyard on Sunday. The "I'm glad I did what I did," Andretti said Monday about his last two races at Indy.

"It was all good, but I was going crazy this month. I just felt there were a lot of things I could have been doing for the team and I couldn't do. So then it just distracts you.

It's just too stressful and too much."
Michael, the son of 1969 Indy winner Mario Andretti and a longtime open-wheel star, retired following the 2003 May classic. Michael finished third and Marco second that year, with Speedway since the win by Marco's grandfather.

Michael, who said he came back this year for no other reason than to try to finally win a 500, was never a factor in Sunday's strange event, a truncated race interrupted by a 3-hour rain delay and then cut 34 laps short by more rain.
His son, who again had a shot at winning the race, led three times for 13 laps. He wound up 24th after a spectacular and upside down.

He was not injured.
Sunday wasn't all bad for the Andrettis, though, as AGR driver gave the team its second Indy win in three years, 12th place.
morning, posing for the traditional winner's photographs with actress/wife Ashley Judd, team members, sponsors and others.

He later attended the annual victory dinner to receive $1,645,233 in prize money from a record race purse of nearly $10.7 million.
boss and friend.

"That's sad," the Scotsman said. "I think when your heroes stop driving, it's tough. But I think it's the right choice for him.

He really enjoys being a team owner and he's bloody good at it."
been," said Andretti, who co-owns AGR with Kim Green and Kevin Savoree. "I really felt that I needed to be there at the end of last year because we just weren't getting it done.

I just really can.
"Now that I've committed more time to that, it makes it even more difficult to do both sides of it."
Andretti said last year, his focus was on Marco.

stuff like that, so it was a little different," he said.
Franchitti is impressed by Andretti's career.
"To me, Michael doesn't need to win a 500 to prove anything," Franchitti said.

"He's one of the best drivers I've ever seen. Even yesterday, when I was coming back through the pack, he's as hard to race as ever. The fact that he didn't win at this place has nothing to do with his skill behind the wheel.