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* Foyt won seven NASCAR races, including the 1972 Daytona 500.
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Foyt and won
Two drivers, Mario Andretti and A. J. Foyt, have won the Indianapolis 500 and have also won NASCAR's premiere event, the Daytona 500.
Foyt won, driving a Ford GT-40 Mk.
Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears each won the Indianapolis 500 four times on the traditional oval, and Jeff Gordon has also won four times on the oval in the Brickyard 400.
Foyt won the International Race of Champions all-star racing series in 1976 and 1977.
Also, in 1964 Foyt won a record 10 of 14 races enroute to his championship.
August Championship Car race his rear engined Lotus pavement car was not at the track so Foyt unloaded the Offenhauser engined dirt track car he had won the race with at Springfield, Il.
Foyt also won the Indycar Series 7 times ; a record that still stands.
Foyt won the 1971 and 1972 races at the Ontario Motor Speedway for Wood Brothers Racing.
* Foyt won the 1976 and 1977 IROC championships.
* Despite having won more USAC sanctioned events than any other driver Foyt never won a CART sanctioned event.
In the 1961 Indianapolis 500 Foyt won over Eddie Sachs with a lead of 8. 28 seconds, the second closest finish in Indianapolis history at the time.
Scott Sharp took a share of the 1996 Indy Racing League ( IRL ) title driving for Foyt while Kenny Bräck won the 1998 IRL title, also in a Foyt car.
Bräck won the 1999 Indianapolis 500 in Foyt's car, putting Foyt in the winner's circle at Indy for the fifth time.
USAC had awarded a national championship until A. J. Foyt won his seventh title in 1979.
He also won the famous Daytona 24 hour race in 1985, co-driving the Porsche 956 from the Preston Henn Racing with Bob Wollek, AJ Foyt and Al Unser Sr.
He won the IRL championship in 1998, and the 1999 Indianapolis 500 driving for American racing legend A. J. Foyt.
A rock video, featuring Foyt's Indianapolis winning cars including the car Bräck won the race with in 1999 while driving for Foyt was also recorded.
Dallenbach nearly won the 1975 Indianapolis 500, dueling with A. J. Foyt for many laps.
Foyt began racing in 1993 in the go-kart ranks, and won his first race two years later.
Foyt began racing Junior Dragsters as a nine-year-old and won two titles.
Foyt and seven
moved to his grandfather's team, A. J. Foyt Enterprises, in the newly-formed Infiniti Pro Series and won the championship with four wins in seven events.
Foyt and NASCAR
Since his retirement from active racing, he has owned A. J. Foyt Enterprises, which has fielded teams in the CART, IRL, and NASCAR.
Foyt only needed ten races to get his first NASCAR victory.
After retiring as a driver, he continued his involvement in racing as a car owner of A. J. Foyt Enterprises in the CART series, then the Indy Racing League ( IRL ) and NASCAR.
While filming in the garage area, Foyt, and Speedway president Tony George decided to take Foyt's NASCAR Winston Cup car for a few laps around the track.
Foyt, Mario Andretti, Johnny Rutherford, Parnelli Jones, Johnnie Parsons, and Al Unser Jr., as well as NASCAR Sprint Cup champions Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart.
Foyt Racing in a bid for NASCAR Winston Cup Series Rookie of the Year honors.
Larry Joseph Roberds Foyt is a semi-retired NASCAR and IndyCar driver.
In October 2005, Foyt announced that at the end of the 2005 season, he would leave Foyt Enterprises and drive in the NASCAR Busch Series for the # 38 Akins Motorsports team and was signed as a developmental driver for Evernham Motorsports.
Foyt and races
Foyt has numerous career records at the Indianapolis 500: the first of to date three drivers to win a record four times, the most consecutive and career starts ( 35 ), most races led ( 13 ), most times led during the career ( 39 ), and most competitive laps and miles during a career ( 4, 909 laps, 12, 272. 5 miles ).
He later made two CART starts for Foyt Enterprises in 1992 but was knocked out of both races by mechanical issues.
He graduated to IndyCar racing in 1994 with team owner A. J. Foyt, where he had several promising races before suffering a season-ending injury at Toronto.
Larry Foyt also attempted a number of races late in the 2004 season, instead running the # 70.
Steadman Marlin competed for the team in two races and A. J. Foyt IV competed in one race for the team.
After the team lost its Harrah's sponsorship, Foyt ran just three races before the team closed its doors.
Foyt attempted both the Nationwide and Camping World Truck races at Daytona in 2009, for Mac Hill Motorsports and Derrike Cope, Inc., respectively.
Two races later at Twin Ring Motegi in Japan, Foyt had his first top-10 start of the season for the Indy Japan 300 when qualifying was rained out.
Foyt and including
Many of the most legendary drivers of the past 50 years have raced there including Ted Horn, Parnelli Jones, AJ Foyt, Bobby and Al Unser, Mario Andretti, Larry Dickson, Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Gordon.
Foyt and 1972
Foyt again had the car to beat in the 1972 Daytona 500, but this time succeeded in a dominating performance.
Also in 1972, the Los Angeles Coliseum hosted a demolition derby with mint-condition late model cars driven by Mario Andretti, A. J. Foyt, and Bobby Unser.
Foyt and Daytona
** 20 February – A. J. Foyt wins the Daytona 500 in the # 21 Mercury for Wood Brothers
Foyt swapped the lead with Bobby Isaac for the final 50 laps of the summer event at the Daytona International Speedway.
Foyt ran out of gas near the end of the 1971 Daytona 500, and Petty passed him for the win.
The team's only attempt in 2006 came at the Daytona 500 with Larry Foyt as driver, but the team missed the race.
Chad Chaffin was the team's interim driver at Loudon and Chicagoland, and Larry Foyt racing at Daytona.
In January 2007, Foyt signed with Vision Racing to return to the IRL for the 2007 season as well as drive with the team in the 2007 24 Hours of Daytona.
Foyt returned to be one of Vision Racing's drivers in the 2008 24 Hours of Daytona.
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