1. @WhoLueYou You're a douche and obviously know little to nothing about AJ Foyt, much less anything else. AJ is one of the best racing drivers ever born. F1 literally doesn't exist in the US, that's why none of us drive in it.
2. lol w tf Indy dick head Indy not f1
3. w tg AJ Foyt and hay Jackie how are you
4. @WhoLueYou but formula 1 is all about cars not drivers. Ask Jenson Button, where he was in 2008 and then in 2009.... To be the best you must win in all kinds of racing. No one has beaten AJ Foyt yet, but I'm waiting.
5. AJ Foyt sucks. If you haven't proven yourself in Formula one, then you suck because Formula one is the pinnacle of motorsport. You Americans can say Foyt is great but around the world no one knows or cares about him. To be world famous you have to prove yourself in Formula one.
6. As a Houstonian, AJ was the hero of every kid in those days, right after the NASA astronauts...
7. AJ IS DA MAN!!!!!!!!!
8. Any guy who wins 4 Indy 500s, (#4 with a car that he and his Dad built) LeMans and Daytona, and does incredible things like bring a dirt track car to an Indy car race withh zero set up time and finish 2nd (like he did at Milwaukee) deserves to be in the top 2 or 3 drivers ever. It's those crazy accomplishments like the last one that show just how great a driver and engineer he was. He had an incredible feel for the car -- like Fangio.
9. Legends from both sides of Atlantic......
10. I respect indycar history and the 500 but if you wanna call yourself the world greatest you have to win at least one F1 world championship.
11. Its from VHS video: Champion for Life (AJ Foyt).
12. Show me the stat and or link that said Gurney was sleeping all the time. Please...
13. he is not the greatest. One of the best at times. But not THE greatest.
14. yes because there are many drivers like e.g. Bob Wollek who are far less lucky. It surely wasn´t Wollek´s bad driving that kept him from winning in one of his 30 tries. Later this unlucky guy got hit by an old lady while cycling home from Sebring.
15. never bothered with F1 because he felt that the cars, even in that era, had too much "brains" put into them. so he rarely did that because he didn't think they were that important. but, there are few men who win Le Mans in their first and only try, and win it in record time.
16. and at one time, correct me if I am wrong, didn't he drive an Oldsmobile on a closed circuit at a lap speed of olmost 260 mph?
17. I think it´s hard to compare and single out too much. for me it would be like F1: Clark, Stewart, Fangio, Senna, Prost, Schumacher (Scheckter, Cevert, G. Villeneuve and some more being also great, but less succesful) Sportscars/Proto: Ickx, Bellof, Stuck, Redman, Haywood... Rally: for me missing in your list: Röhrl (he just didn´t want to become too succesful, but was maybe the most gifted driver I have ever seen) I don´t know much about oval racing
18. my greatest drivers ever list f1: Clark, Senna, Prost indy: Foyt, Andretti, Unser, Mears NASCAR: Petty, Earnhardt rallying: Vatanen, Kankkunen, Auriol, Sainz Overall its a shootout between Foyt and Senna. Foyt wins, but maybe just because the career of Senna was cut short. Don't know much about sportscar racing.
19. for me there is no one owning F1. there are many greats like Senna, Prost, Stewart, Fangio, Clark... Stuck was just great in everything (except F1 where he was a bit too big, but he was still fast). He was world sportscar champion, german touring car champion, german racing champion, 2 times Le Mans winner, 3 times Sebring winner. He won the 1st 24h of Nürburbrgring in 70 and is still racing there (next year with his 2 sons). He also got some class wins in IMSA and ALMS.
20. AJ Foyt owns IndyCar racing (67 wins, 7 championships). Ayrton Senna owns F1 (some say Schumacher, I don't agree). Richard Petty owns NASCAR. What does Hans Stuck own? Besides that AJ Foyt was a winner in NASCAR, Le Mans, Sportscars, basically he won in every racing he competed. Thats exceptional.
21. yes that´s one of the reasons I said rarely. I don´t want to make A,J. bad or something, he surely was a great driver, but for me he is just not in my greatest drivers ever list, but that´s why everyone can have his own. I surely have some in my list, that you maybe wouldn´t count to it, too. Like e.g. Hans J. Stuck.
22. He actually did most of the driving. Gurney was sleeping all the time. The team consisted of just two drivers unlike today they have 3, 4 or even more. That was his only start in that race. One start, one win, easy.
23. Did you know that he was part of a driving team that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans?
24. I know you meant AJ, but Jackie is just a the bigger international legend :P A.J. Foyt rarely was running in international motorsports, so it´s harder for me to judge if he was one of the greatest ever for me.
25. NOT Jackie Stewart....A.J.!!!

Indy 500 '77 - Jackie Stewart interviews AJ Foyt

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From live ABC broadcast. Victory Circle, celebrations, interview. Post race interview: Jackie Stewart, Chris Economaki and the greates american race car driver ever.
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