Two of America's greatest... Robin Miller is having a ball, even looks around at one point as if to say, "Are you guys hearing these great stories from Super Tex?" What that would have been like had Stewart & Foyt been racing in the same era. Great Stuff!
@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT3 жыл бұрын
the fact that Tony drove his hero's 1961 Indy 500 car is so amazing!
@dallaskearns97527 жыл бұрын
AJ, the hardest of the hard men. Out ran Jan Opperman at the fairgrounds in two 50 lap races three days before Indy because Parnelli said he couldn't beat him. Never, NEVER will there be another AJ!
@shaunstrasser12 жыл бұрын
RIP Jan Opperman and Robin Miller
@mountcomfort740 Жыл бұрын
Never
@davidcarter27204 жыл бұрын
Those deep cockpits ... I do remember my dad taking us out to the stands outside the exit to turn 4, and we'd watch AJ (probably in that car a time or two) work as he'd approach the wall ... and notice how consistent he was at where and how distant he was from the wall - exactly the same nearly every lap (and he'd be CLOSE to the wall). Some laps, he worked harder than others - and as they recalled in this clip - it was fun to see that aspect of racing. I suppose in-car cameras give us a bit of that now. But I sure enjoyed being able to see them work the wheel thru the turns.
@mmciau7 жыл бұрын
From here in South Australia - absolutely wonderful to see and hear history and reminiscence of 50 plus years ago.
@goodshipkaraboudjan7 жыл бұрын
Just as good from here in Queensland! Shame the 500 doesn't have as big a profile as it deserves here.
@zatgeye73207 жыл бұрын
SA boy here to
@JamesAllmond7 жыл бұрын
at least you all can watch it live over the internet nowadays! I remember when we didn't even get to see it live in the US! Now part of the biggest race day there is (for us in the US at least) Monaco, Charlotte and Indy!
@garycrumrine95387 жыл бұрын
I will never forget AJ at Milwaukee with his upright Dirt car show the indy guys how it was done.
@shhotput6 жыл бұрын
Are you talking about the 1964 race in Milwaukee? Big crash in turn 4. I was 8 years old and was there. Saw the car he won with 4 years ago at The Mile on display.
@FOH36632 жыл бұрын
It's the best! In Milwaukee waiting for his team to arrive, he's told his rear engine Lotus blew up at the shop. He'd won the night before in Springfield in his dirt champ car... so without his crew, he put on asphalt tires, after a couple of Warm up laps puts the dirt car on the pole! His crew arrives for the race, he's strong all day, finishing second to Gordo. That's a wheelman.
@AlanpittsS2a7 ай бұрын
@@FOH3663yep. Great moment in racing
@eddellis95337 жыл бұрын
One day at Indy, I was summoned by a crew member to see AJ right away...uh oh. By this time, I had made a few wheels for his drivers and he was all paid up. So, I was a little nervous; after all, this IS AJ we're talking about. Turns out, AJ just wanted me to know that I wasn't the first one to use the leveraging concept on a steering wheel at Indy since he wrapped FRICTION TAPE on the steering wheel of this exact car to aid steering and improve feedback. He concluded by saying, "You just figured out a more elegant way of doing it." On that statement, I walked up and shook his hand for I had just been paid one helluva compliment. I also enjoyed doing Tony's wheels, too. Like AJ, I found him to be a man of few words, but also very calculated and direct...no small talk with Tony. He knew exactly what he wanted, and we wouldn't stop remolding the composite thermoplastic until it was perfect...we always got along great.
@quadsman116 жыл бұрын
Absolutely priceless interview ! Great job Robin, just sit back and watch history unfold in front of you !
@gosmo45043 жыл бұрын
Three Legends.
@c.d.89757 ай бұрын
Another legend is Ryan Preece WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP go get em Ryan ☝️🏆💰💪🏁🤺👏👍👊🤸♀️✊️🧢👞🪠
@ferdterguson1243 жыл бұрын
Oh to be there in person. Chills
@mountcomfort740 Жыл бұрын
Tony is the AJ of our era
@mred59987 жыл бұрын
Two of the "GREATEST" ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@FOH36632 жыл бұрын
Yep ... and Stewart's not bad either.
@vince065us7 жыл бұрын
This is classic.
@saltybildo44154 жыл бұрын
Tears in My eyes 30 year indy guy here 80' to 2010
@taylorowner7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful!!!!
@nedkline8867 жыл бұрын
dang, but aj is a piece of work, always have just loved him. from the fifties when i would watch him in my home town of allentown pa at the fairgrounds, which he said was his most unfavorite track to indy to lemans, the greatest
@RacingNationTV7 жыл бұрын
Lowkey I really want to see Stewart do the 500 in the 14 or 40 in 2018.
@tscooter227 жыл бұрын
Great video! Thank you.
@dirtnbeer Жыл бұрын
4:40 is soooo true! Kevin Olson at the Chili Bowl several years ago raced with no side boards and an open faced helmet with a white t shirt and hanky over the face. Was so freaking cool! Miss those days
@125guitarmaster7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for always providing great content!
@sheldonturley18495 жыл бұрын
A.J.Foyt Jr was the greatest race driver ever.
@manga12 Жыл бұрын
ah the watson style roadsters, they dont race them anymore but for special occasions where they run vintage, though there do build custome vintage style race cars at many shops, one so see a few of is the 98 parnelli jones car, and if you see one up close it is a beauty the lines are something else look like a rocket even sitting still from the side.
@jackharle1251 Жыл бұрын
Love this.
@hotrodcarguys12436 жыл бұрын
Two of the luckiest guys in the world! Driving any Offy Roadster is on my bucket list!
@williamstel9330Күн бұрын
Another great American driver from now. Tony makes Americans proud and carries the crown for the old troup.
@tnitron97507 жыл бұрын
Took place today may 10th 2017. Indianapolis speedway
@maryannsmith92195 жыл бұрын
2 of my heroes, yeah,awesome!!!🏁💖👀👍😁
@gman20133 жыл бұрын
How cool to have the legendary A.J. Foyt to put his arm around you and call you by first name as he starts to tell you a story!
@edwardlee11507 ай бұрын
Let’s be real. AJ was not always the most fan friendly, cheerful guy in the pits. As a young fellow I got to see AJ and Mario in their prime. Icons. Mario was in my experience far more fan friendly. I still rooted for AJ. I sensed even as a boy that AJ was a once in a generation phenomenon. I was privileged to see one of the greatest champ car races ever, the 1967 Trenton 200. AJ came from two laps down to win after running the field down twice during 190 green flag laps. Epic.
@roscoegarbonzo99664 жыл бұрын
Aj A Man"s Man!
@gregj8316 жыл бұрын
This is an awesome video. The ole roadster is a beautiful racing car.
@TomSmith-io9uk5 жыл бұрын
Watched him at the fairgrounds at indy many times back in the deadly days of racing. AJ, Lone Star JR, Andretti, Mark Donahue, The Bettenhausens, and many others where Iron men of the sport. Racing today should go back to there roots and have more versatile drivers.
@bobbyboykin71375 жыл бұрын
Smoke & SuperTex, two peas in a pod and the best guys to ever strap in a roundy-round car.
@FOH36632 жыл бұрын
Fifty one Indy 500s under my belt, ... my two best Foyt memories include him in USAC Stocks on dirt at the big Indy Fairgrounds mile oval. Secondly, AJ retiring unexpectedly on Pole Day '93 ... sitting in the stands... as track anouncers describe what's transpiring... AJ in tears on the mammoth PA system... it was magical. Robby Gordon, his young hotshot team-mate had an incident... AJ felt he'd not focused enough on helping Gordon adapt to the track, including treacherous turn one. - Daytona 500 winner - 24 Hours of Le Mans winner - 4x Indy 500 wins - 35 consecutive Indy 500 starts spanning the '50's to the '90's! Foyt was a standout amoung the Titans of the sport, throughout the pinnacle of the sport. ... Parnelli Jones, Dan Gurney, Mario Andretti, Bobby and Al Unser, McClusky, Johncock, Rutherford, Bettenhausen. All this in midgets, sprints, dirt, asphalt, USAC Stocks on road courses, dirt, and asphalt, Nascar, 24hr endurance cars, etc. Damn, who'd thought we'd lose R before Super Tex.
@mountcomfort740 Жыл бұрын
RIP Robin May will never be the same without you
@xpavar7 жыл бұрын
Wow , a roadster. Too cool.
@jomarkelly39323 жыл бұрын
Great video
@jbradbury2 Жыл бұрын
I like AJ..real old school. Field of dreams stuff
@sheldonturley18494 жыл бұрын
A.J. Foyt Jr is the only driver to win in (front Engine and rear engine Indy cars) this record will never be broken...also 35 straight Indy Starts.
@kevinhuneycutt96914 жыл бұрын
American icons right there.
@jamesbarry69792 жыл бұрын
Love AJ. Bobby and Al Unser . Mario... Jim Hurtabes and all the others in the 1960s....Indy Race Car is the Best...📢
@sandradowney79285 жыл бұрын
Love to see a boy and his hero!
@rlaird85447 жыл бұрын
I wonder when this meeting took place?
@capnrob977 жыл бұрын
NM, I see that AJ has had some medical problems lately. He is a true legend of racing.
@ferdterguson1244 жыл бұрын
Give em hell smoke!!
@jimray22817 жыл бұрын
AJ looks great - I really thought he was on his way out - great to see him back in seemingly good health
@2014cwajts717 жыл бұрын
Yeah he looks better than he has in years, thankfully.
@ozzymd12 жыл бұрын
A. J. ' S 1958 Indy run what was he thinking when the big one happened on turn 3 !
@DinoArmani7 жыл бұрын
What in the hell is with the music in the background, give it a break!
@chopped277 жыл бұрын
it's just from the track PA system, as it is open to all the teams moving in the garages for the month of May.
@2014cwajts717 жыл бұрын
Yeah I noticed it too. At least the music that's playing is tolerable.
@jimmymeyer77587 жыл бұрын
GREAAAAAAAAT!
@fastfoodreviewandelvistoo5 жыл бұрын
Tony, please consider Oswego and a super! That would be awesome! 🏁
@David80-lc1xh Жыл бұрын
Gold
@barbt.92117 жыл бұрын
Race Driver's today, couldn't shine A J FOTY shoes.
@50caLIndycar7 жыл бұрын
tony! get your ass back to the indy 500!
@Racer_Mike877 жыл бұрын
Why?
@ignatiusjk4 жыл бұрын
How fast could a car like go ??? 110-125 ?
@c.d.89757 ай бұрын
AJ needs to lay off the donuts 🍩 🩺
@ferdterguson1243 жыл бұрын
The best ever
@juicyfruit44943 жыл бұрын
Super Tex. And smoke.
@edge2sword1864 жыл бұрын
SMOKEY SAID WHEN CARS DIDN'T HANDLE HE HATED THE WAY A.J. WOULD SHOW UP AND WIN EVERY RACE NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF CAR HE DROVE .
@c.d.89757 ай бұрын
Dumbest thing Tony Stewart ever did? 🤷♀️ Signing Ryan Preece not once but twice, WTF 🙈
@stevereed87867 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine the concern the owner of that car feels having Stewart and his legendary temper behind the wheel of this beautiful machine.
@2014cwajts71 Жыл бұрын
Foyt is just as temperamental.
@epiphonium7 жыл бұрын
Cut down so ya can see the elbows, that's awesome
@ILSRWY47 жыл бұрын
A.J. would run circles around "Smoke" ....its no comparison at all.....
@jeffwagner86907 жыл бұрын
@ 2:12 - 2:26 (after 2:27 big mouth starts to shoot his mouth off) as a very knowledgeable Road Racing fan of only 37 years old that didn't see what I STRONGLY feel were the best years ever (approx) '63-'77, A.J. sums it up PERFECTLY for me!
@Firejob27 жыл бұрын
Oswego Tony!!
@saltybildo44154 жыл бұрын
Lol
@baseballbat87776 жыл бұрын
So sad car in video is not painted like a kite
@thomasholland32897 жыл бұрын
@alainbelanger67886 жыл бұрын
To much politic that what sabotage all racing you had technology it’s done
@Tylnorton7 жыл бұрын
He should be behind the bars not the wheel! Nah fuck that one person that says that nonsense. Stewart is living a great life after retirement! He just gotta get behind that wheel for another Indy 500!!
@c.d.89757 ай бұрын
Stewart is bangin alot of broads 👙💄
@donharrus99947 жыл бұрын
I'm first
@mattsieglovesdietrootbeer7 жыл бұрын
hey remember when Tony stewart purposefully killed that guy?
@2014cwajts716 жыл бұрын
matt sieg: No because that never happened you shit-for-brains.
@whgrunow4 жыл бұрын
The idiot runs on to an active race track shaking his fist at Tony driving towards him, not to smart a move !