My grandfather loved AJ. I never knew he grew up in Tomball, TX until here recently when u turned off a county road named after him in the middle of the country.
I recall back in the early to late 70's EVERYONE would have their eyes on A.J. at Indy, in his beautiful red #14 Coyote/Foyt Ford. In the time trials, it was like watching Babe Ruth up at bat. If he was taken out of a race by mechanical or accident, a fair bit of the air went out of the race with him.
I always expected A.J. to be super arrogant and obnoxious but he seems down to earth and super cool! - thanks for upload and yes AJ is farfarfar more closely associated with the indy 500- i wudve thought that was incredibley obvious, but even in NASCAR he was a helluva wheel man and won more races in his abbreviated NASCAR career than some drivers do that solely concentrate on cup and race fulltime every year (and almost as many as household names, for example Kyle Petty).
@@reagan513 he would hate them. Back then you had reporters electronic and print that had talent and he knew who did there job correctly like Chris Economaki today there is no talent
Here's a couple things people may not realize about Kyle Petty - first of all his Dad made him work in the shop - when I say work - Richard Petty told Kyle if he ever wanted to be a driver he would have to learn how to do everything in the shop - everything - that's what Lee Petty did with Richard - before racehorses I worked in the metal trades for over 20 yrs . In the garage area Kyle Petty is known as a master fabricator and a welder with the highest of certifications a craftsman can make - the last I had heard he still keeps his welding certifications current Did Kyle have advantages most do not ? He'll be the first to tell you absolutely yes - Kyle may look like a bit of a prima Donna but make no mistake this guy can get underneath the hood , Fix a tire - or straighten out the body of a racecar - The Petty Family have literally given Sweat , Blood , and a lot of tears - NASCAR lost some of the fabric the sport so desperately needed with the loss of Adam - and there have been several other family members and close friends killed and mamed over the yrs AJ Foyt and I had a long conversation about his friend Richard - He has given more than people will ever know...
The Silver Fox in my opinion was the greatest, but their is a lot of legends in this sport. Now, its gone. In 2018 in November we lost David Pearson and in 2020 we lost the true meaning of stock car racing
Allison, Petty, Pearson, Yarborough were the big 4 petty got 200 wins because nascar would count everything in site from 1957 when he started to 1971 in 1972 they had a set schedule if they had that then 70 to 100 races would have been taken away.
I grew up with my entire family working at a local midwest dirt stock car track. I grew up doing all kinds of summer weekend jobs working at the track. I did everything from watering the track with the ancient water truck smelling the CO coming into the cab thru the giant rusted out holes in the floorboards, filled from a fire hydrant, all while underage drinking a 6-pack of Budweiser tall boys with my girlfriend every friday evening, cleaning the grandstands with a sawed-off handle wire rake, repairing the old board track fence, outselling the other two racing program sellers, parking cars, working in the food stand, selling/taking tickets, setting up and repairing the old vacuum tube sound system, mowing grass with the old Ford tractor, cleaning out the flooded mud clogged track drain intakes by hand laying in the mosquito-infested stinky slop sweating profusely in the summer heat (drinking untold gallons of Lipton iced tea out of an old plastic thermos jug). All this for $15/week and getting myself (and showing my friends how to sneak in for free through the hole in the fence). My family was even involved in go-kart racing for 11 years until I flipped on 7/11/98 and broke my back, collar bone, assorted ribs, and right hand and being in a fiberglass "tortoise shell" backbrace for twelve weeks and undergoing two clavicle surgeries over the next 2-1/2 years. I called it quit shortly afterwards after it became just to hard to stand in the pits watching my oldest son continue to race knowing how I would never forgive myself if he were to get hurt like I had knowing just how potentially dangerous it was. Especially with my son not having "gotten on his head", i.e., flipped or gotten hurt yet up to that point. I you race long enough it's not a question if, but when you will get hurt. It's just the nature of the beast. Especially knowing my son, wife, and parents would never say anything about quitting racing. And even more so knowing our youngest son was almost old enough to start racing. Despite it all and suffering from chronic pain for 22 years as a result, I don't regret a single minute of it all. The lifelong friends I made and joy of it all and lessons my sons and I learned, and memories we have were worth it. My dad and I admired A.J. Foyt and went to nine Indy 500 races and one Brickyard 400 race. Today my wife and I admire A.J. Foyt and Tony Stewart. They are two tough sob's I wouldn't want pissed at me.
I wonder how he'd be if he switched full-time to NASCAR back in the 80s. He lost his father at that time and lost that spark. The Indycars started becoming like fighter jets and awarded the youthful and athletic. Cup cars could be won by anyone of any age.
Super Tex! The man! If it had four wheels and an engine he had a chance... and a good one. Unlike most current top level racers who aren't competitive in anything but their specialty (cough Montoya cough) and few can still run on dirt and pavement well.
AJ is undoubtedly more synonymous with Indy 500 and champ cars than NASCAR. When it comes to Foyt oddly enough, as a younger stock car fan, I first think of Sir Jackie at Daytona screaming, "AJ FOYT." Lol
True, however Foyt, like the racecar drivers of the era, were jack of all trades. Sprints, champs, stocks, sports cars, etc. He's a three time USAC stock car champion and a Daytona 500 winner. He's a stock car racing legend, but not a stock car racing GIANT like Richard Petty or Earnhardt, Sr.
There isn’t anyone better then aj Foyt when it comes to driving race cars no matter what kind of car it was. There are a few that might be close but there isn’t anyone better.
DAVID PEARSON, Fireball Roberts, Dale Earnhardt, and Bobby Allison maybe. That's who Leonard Wood put on Mount Rushmore. All around Foyt, Stock car, Pearson in my opinion.
NASCAR put AJ in the hall of fame while he is still here!!!
My grandfather loved AJ. I never knew he grew up in Tomball, TX until here recently when u turned off a county road named after him in the middle of the country.
That GT40 is what I think of and how a car from Michigan a legend from California and an old IMCA modified champ from Texas won LeMans in 67
The tuffest and most fearless son of a bitch that ever grabbed hold on a steering wheel...no debate needed.
I recall back in the early to late 70's EVERYONE would have their eyes on A.J. at Indy, in his beautiful red #14 Coyote/Foyt Ford. In the time trials, it was like watching Babe Ruth up at bat. If he was taken out of a race by mechanical or accident, a fair bit of the air went out of the race with him.
I always expected A.J. to be super arrogant and obnoxious but he seems down to earth and super cool! - thanks for upload and yes AJ is farfarfar more closely associated with the indy 500- i wudve thought that was incredibley obvious, but even in NASCAR he was a helluva wheel man and won more races in his abbreviated NASCAR career than some drivers do that solely concentrate on cup and race fulltime every year (and almost as many as household names, for example Kyle Petty).
AJ IS AN EXCELLENT GUY TO THE FANS, HE JUST DON'T LIKE THE MEDIA. WONDER HOW HE WOULD acknowledge the main stream media now?
@@reagan513 he would hate them. Back then you had reporters electronic and print that had talent and he knew who did there job correctly like Chris Economaki today there is no talent
Here's a couple things people may not realize about Kyle Petty - first of all his Dad made him work in the shop - when I say work - Richard Petty told Kyle if he ever wanted to be a driver he would have to learn how to do everything in the shop - everything - that's what Lee Petty did with Richard - before racehorses I worked in the metal trades for over 20 yrs . In the garage area Kyle Petty is known as a master fabricator and a welder with the highest of certifications a craftsman can make - the last I had heard he still keeps his welding certifications current
Did Kyle have advantages most do not ? He'll be the first to tell you absolutely yes -
Kyle may look like a bit of a prima Donna but make no mistake this guy can get
underneath the hood , Fix
a tire - or straighten out the body of a racecar -
The Petty Family have literally given Sweat , Blood , and a lot of tears - NASCAR lost some of the fabric the sport so desperately needed with the loss of Adam - and there have been several other family members and close friends killed and mamed over the yrs
AJ Foyt and I had a long conversation about his friend Richard - He has given more than people will ever know...
If AJ Raced Full season he and Richard Petty would've been one of the best if not THE Best Rivalry in NASCAR History
jesusjr millan
Petty wouldn’t have 200, That’s for sure
Roy Stone yep
The Silver Fox in my opinion was the greatest, but their is a lot of legends in this sport. Now, its gone. In 2018 in November we lost David Pearson and in 2020 we lost the true meaning of stock car racing
Allison, Petty, Pearson, Yarborough were the big 4 petty got 200 wins because nascar would count everything in site from 1957 when he started to 1971 in 1972 they had a set schedule if they had that then 70 to 100 races would have been taken away.
Foyt could have even made it in F1.
I grew up with my entire family working at a local midwest dirt stock car track. I grew up doing all kinds of summer weekend jobs working at the track. I did everything from watering the track with the ancient water truck smelling the CO coming into the cab thru the giant rusted out holes in the floorboards, filled from a fire hydrant, all while underage drinking a 6-pack of Budweiser tall boys with my girlfriend every friday evening, cleaning the grandstands with a sawed-off handle wire rake, repairing the old board track fence, outselling the other two racing program sellers, parking cars, working in the food stand, selling/taking tickets, setting up and repairing the old vacuum tube sound system, mowing grass with the old Ford tractor, cleaning out the flooded mud clogged track drain intakes by hand laying in the mosquito-infested stinky slop sweating profusely in the summer heat (drinking untold gallons of Lipton iced tea out of an old plastic thermos jug). All this for $15/week and getting myself (and showing my friends how to sneak in for free through the hole in the fence). My family was even involved in go-kart racing for 11 years until I flipped on 7/11/98 and broke my back, collar bone, assorted ribs, and right hand and being in a fiberglass "tortoise shell" backbrace for twelve weeks and undergoing two clavicle surgeries over the next 2-1/2 years. I called it quit shortly afterwards after it became just to hard to stand in the pits watching my oldest son continue to race knowing how I would never forgive myself if he were to get hurt like I had knowing just how potentially dangerous it was. Especially with my son not having "gotten on his head", i.e., flipped or gotten hurt yet up to that point. I you race long enough it's not a question if, but when you will get hurt. It's just the nature of the beast. Especially knowing my son, wife, and parents would never say anything about quitting racing. And even more so knowing our youngest son was almost old enough to start racing. Despite it all and suffering from chronic pain for 22 years as a result, I don't regret a single minute of it all. The lifelong friends I made and joy of it all and lessons my sons and I learned, and memories we have were worth it. My dad and I admired A.J. Foyt and went to nine Indy 500 races and one Brickyard 400 race. Today my wife and I admire A.J. Foyt and Tony Stewart. They are two tough sob's I wouldn't want pissed at me.
I wonder how he'd be if he switched full-time to NASCAR back in the 80s. He lost his father at that time and lost that spark. The Indycars started becoming like fighter jets and awarded the youthful and athletic. Cup cars could be won by anyone of any age.
Dan Gurney owned the road courses and A.J . could win in anything he drove . What a team at Le Mans !
Super Tex! The man! If it had four wheels and an engine he had a chance... and a good one. Unlike most current top level racers who aren't competitive in anything but their specialty (cough Montoya cough) and few can still run on dirt and pavement well.
When AJ Foyt comes to mind, something tells me nascar is not the first thing you think of. More like Indy 500.
AJ is undoubtedly more synonymous with Indy 500 and champ cars than NASCAR. When it comes to Foyt oddly enough, as a younger stock car fan, I first think of Sir Jackie at Daytona screaming, "AJ FOYT." Lol
True, however Foyt, like the racecar drivers of the era, were jack of all trades. Sprints, champs, stocks, sports cars, etc. He's a three time USAC stock car champion and a Daytona 500 winner. He's a stock car racing legend, but not a stock car racing GIANT like Richard Petty or Earnhardt, Sr.
A.J. The Real King of Racing!
I still remember when A.J. made a NASCAR pit stop and when he left out he lost all 4 tires.He was not a happy camper.
A.J. Foyt is awesome!!!
AJ Foyt greatest wheel man ever
Y’all can say that I’m lying but a.j. Foyt was my great uncle
Was?
There isn’t anyone better then aj Foyt when it comes to driving race cars no matter what kind of car it was. There are a few that might be close but there isn’t anyone better.
DAVID PEARSON, Fireball Roberts, Dale Earnhardt, and Bobby Allison maybe. That's who Leonard Wood put on Mount Rushmore. All around Foyt, Stock car, Pearson in my opinion.
Not only don't they gave fun today, they're nowhere close to as good a driver