Happy birthday to racing legend AJ Foyt. Not content with a mere two wins in the Indianapolis 500 and a string of USAC titles, he went back to Indy as a constructor and proceeded to add another pair of victories driving his own Coyote cars. He tells Gordon Kirby why these were the greatest days
Thirty years ago, AJ Foyt ensured his legendary status in motor racing history by becoming the first man to win four Indy 500s. Foyt scored his third Indy 500 win in 1967, six years after his first victory in the American classic, but it would take another 10 years before Foyt made history by winning his fourth 500. When he finally pulled it off in 1977, the Texan had been the man to beat for a few years in a row and he did it with his own team, cars and engines, a remarkable accomplishment, unlikely to be repeated in modern motorsport.
Foyt made his first USAC championship start in the summer of 1957 when he was 22 years old, after making a name for himself in midgets and sprint cars. By the 1960 season Foyt had moved to the Bowes Seal Fast team where George Bignotti was chief mechanic and AJ came on strong in the year's second half, winning four 100-mile dirt track races aboard the team's Meskowski-Offy dirt car and beat Rodger Ward to take the first of his record seven USAC championships...
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