Corporate entertainment rule #1: Don't kill the guests

Mario Andretti, the racing legend who dominated the sport in the 1970s, still has the skills, reports analyst Nathan Brookwood of Insight 64.

Brookwood was one of a number of analysts and journalists invited by German chipmaking giant Infineon Technologies to the Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., for strategy briefings as well as an opportunity to drive laps with professional racers such as Ralph Borelli, Peter Goebel and Andretti. (As corporate entertainment goes, zipping around a track at 200 miles per hour in Porsches and stock cars is tough to beat, but you do want to vomit after a while).

Going around the uphill hairpin turn known as the Carousel, a wheel popped off the car carrying Andretti and Brookwood. The pair spun around two times before coming to a stop in the infield.

"'That's not supposed to happen,' Andretti said," Brookwood recalled. "I can't remember if there was an expletive before that."