At 80, AJ Foyt still winning race against time - Indianapolis Star
"The doctor called my wife and son Larry and said, 'It ain't looking good for A. J. ' Speedway giants greats from two great speedways watch practice at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. Glenn Roberts, left, of Daytona Beach has won four of the track’s major races. Foyt, right, was 1961 Indianapolis champion. FOYT, in his #14 Sheraton Thompson car, has his hand in the air as comes through a late race accident on lap 200. Chuck Hulse, driving the #8 Hopkins (shown right), finished 195 laps for a 7th place finish. Foyt was the only driver to complete all 200 laps and did so with an new record average speed of 151. 207 mph. Foyt is at Belle Isle to watch his A. J. Foyt Racing drivers Takuma Sato and Jack Hawksworth run this weekend at the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix. It is just the second race Foyt — the only driver to win the Daytona 500, Indianapolis 500 and 24 Hours of Le Mans — has attended this year, the other being last weekend's Indy 500. A couple of years ago, Foyt caught a staph infection, then last... That's on top of the multiple race injuries throughout his legendary career — burns, breaks, fractures, concussions and an almost severed arm when he crashed at Michigan International Speedway during the Michigan 500 in 1981. Source: www.indystar.com
