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There is almost no limit to the lengths a man will go for pride. Take Texas' A. J. (for Anthony Joseph) Foyt...
Fast cars are nothing new to Foyt: he practically cut his teeth on a camshaft. The son of a Houston garage owner, A. J. won his first auto race at the age of four-in a scaled-down midget with a one-cylinder engine and a top speed of 18 m.p.h. He quit school at 17 to turn pro, fought his way up from the dirt tracks of the Southwest to the big time and the big money at Milwaukee and Trenton and Indianapolis. In 1960 he won his first (of three) U.S. Auto Club championships; a year later...
...sports-car racing, with its twisting courses, its slower speeds, its constant braking and shifting (up to 300 times on one circuit), is not supposed to be his cup of methanol. Going into the 250-mile American Challenge Cup race at Daytona two Saturdays ago, Foyt had driven a sports car only six times in his life...
...Lotus was spewing oil. A 10? connecting hose had given way. Now it was Gurney out front, gracefully threading through traffic like a patrolling turnpike cop. After 131 miles, only one other car was on the same lap: the white Offy of Texas' Veteran A. J. Foyt, 28, winner of the Indy 500 in 1961, two-time U.S.A.C. champion. At one point, Foyt closed to within 7 sec. But Gurney was boxed in. He broke clear and within ten laps the lead grew to 13 sec. It was all over-unless...
...147th lap, a huge puff of smoke belched from Gurney's Lotus. A camshaft cover had burst and oil was seeping into his engine block. That was it. With the last Lotus limping into the pits, the race belonged to the dogged Foyt. At the checkered flag, he had averaged 101 m.p.h. for 200 laps around the tiny Trenton track...