December 17, 2012

A.J. Foyt has driven just about every type of race car.  His specialty and love has always been Indy Cars, either old roadster type or the present day rear engine car.

He is now a team owner in the IRL Indy Car series, but in 1990, as we see here, he was racing in the CART series against Mario Andretti and others.  The images attached are from the 1990 season at the Milwaukee Mile and Elkhart Lake's, Road America, where A.J. had his terrible accident going off in Turn 1 and really damaging his feet.

The rivalry between he and Mario was made for television and it brought crowds to the race track.  However, it has been said that they were never really friends.   In two of the pictures attached here of A. J. and Mario, I would really like to know what they are saying to each other!

A.J. has had some coarse relationships with his drivers but that is because of his love of racing I think.  Tony Stewart is the one driver that had a great time with A.J. and when Tony won the NASCAR championship a while ago A.J. was the first phone call Tony got to congratulate him!

We need more racers like A.J. Foyt and Mario that live for Indy Car racing.

Attached are a few photographs from the race that day for you to enjoy.

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