A.J. Foyt

SINCE THE FIRST 500, A CENTURY AGO, THE INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY HAS BEEN THE SETTING FOR SOME OF RACING'S MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS, AS TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY PLAYED OUT AROUND THE 2.5-MILE OVAL. TAKE A LAP....

29 LEAD changes in the 1960 race, an Indy 500 record. Jim Rathmann and Rodger Ward swapped the leader tag 15 times in the final 104 laps, and Rathmann held on to win by 12.67 seconds.

NO ONE RACED HARDER. NO ONE WAS MORE ADMIRED. AS HE TOOK HIS FINAL TURNS IN 1991, ALL THAT A.J. FOYT WAS MISSING WAS SOMETHING THAT HIS FATHER COULD NEVER GIVE HIM

HE MAY HAVE BEEN A LITTLE-KNOWN 26-YEAR-OLD, BUT EVEN THEN MARIO ANDRETTI'S WAS A NAME TO REMEMBER

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