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Apr 9, 2017 · For 1967, fresh off his third Indy 500 victory, Ford partnered Foyt with legendary racer/engineer Dan Gurney on Carroll Shelby's team. There, the two made history. This was the first and only time ...
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Four cars were ready for Le Mans: two for Shelby American who had the American pair of Dan Gurney and A. J. Foyt in one car and defending champion Bruce McLaren with Mark Donohue in the other. The team had to fabricate a roof "bubble" to accommodate the helmet of Dan Gurney, who stood more than 190 cm (6 feet, 3 inches) tall.
A. J. Foyt. Anthony Joseph Foyt Jr. (born January 16, 1935) is an American former racing driver who competed in numerous disciplines of motorsport. He is best known for his open wheel racing career, and for becoming the first four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500. He holds the most American National Championship titles in history, winning seven.
Nov 13, 2019 · The movie tells the story—with a good dose of Hollywood thrown in—of Ford's 1966 Le Mans effort through the eyes of legendary car builder Carroll Shelby (played by Matt Damon) and driver Ken ...
Dan Gurney and A.J. Foyt piloted a Ford Mark IV around the Circuit de la Sarthe for 24 brutal hours. The two drivers, like the crew members and Ford executives there with them, hoped all the while that neither they nor their machine would break under the strain. Bruce McLaren, Henry Ford II and Chris Amon at the 24 Hours of Le Mans Race, June 1966.
Mar 13, 2024 · A.J. Foyt came in. A.J. is a smiler—Shelby, Miles, Foyt and Ferrari's Bondurant are all long-distance smilers—and he smiled as he replied, "Oh, about 30," to a question as to where he was running. Foyt and Ronnie Bucknam were driving a Holman-Moody prepared Ford Mark II with an automatic transmission.
Apr 24, 2018 · A crash in practice for an Indy-car race at Milwaukee in June 1966 left Foyt with badly burned hands and burns on his face and neck. Foyt’s mechanical sympathy helped him enjoy a late-career renaissance in sports-car racing. In 1983, he went to Daytona to share an ill-fated Aston Martin Nimrod with Darrell Waltrip.
