Several print media reports and FOX-TV commentators, during the pre-race segment of last Sunday’s telecast from Sonoma, Calif., had Marco being a candidate to join Chip Ganassi’s Nextel Cup team.

“Absolutely not. No way. No talk about NASCAR with anyone,” the youngest Andretti said. “I don’t know where that rumor started, but that’s a part of our sport.”

The Bushkill Township native insisted it was news to him when he received a recent call from his cousin, John Andretti, a NASCAR veteran currently racing in the Busch Series.

“Man, you’re actually the third person who told me — next to John,” Andretti said Wednesday. “He called me and said, ‘Man, why don’t you tell me these things?’ I told him he just told me for the first time.”

Marco is a rookie Indy car driver under contract to his father’s Andretti Green Racing organization.

“Man 19 years old I’m just happy to be where I am. I’m definitely loving to be where I am here at AGR for the next three years,” Andretti said.

Marco, who stunned the racing world by nearly winning the Indianapolis 500 last month in only his fourth Indy car race, goes to Kansas in 10th place in the series standings.

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