My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

In 1981 Foyt had a nasty accident at the Michigan 500 and nearly lost an arm. In the 1977 Indianapolis 500 Foyt ran out of fuel and had to make up around 32 seconds on Gordon Johncock. Foyt turned the car into the infield at more than 100 mph and the car tumbled violently end-over-end several times.

Anthony Joseph "A. He won several major sports car racing events. Since his retirement from active racing he has owned A.