![]() ![]() He also won the 1972 Daytona 500 and the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans – the only driver to win those three major events.Īndretti won 52 Indy car races, including the 1969 Indianapolis 500. Those battles is what separated these two drivers apart form any other tandem in the over 100-year history of the sport.įoyt holds the record for most Indy car victories with 67 and was the first driver to win the Indianapolis 500 four times in a career. We fought hard for what we got – really hard.” ![]() “As much as the fans were for one or the other we were just as selfish as that, too. I think rivalries like we had were the healthiest thing you could have for the sport because I knew damn well we didn’t give an inch. ![]() It’s part of the aura – all of those things. It’s part of what makes the sport so appealing. “It’s always healthy in the sport to have really strong feelings – fans that really, really want to take a bullet for you type of thing. “I think that part was healthy,” said the 74-year-old Andretti from his Nazareth, Pa., home. It remains Indy car’s “Rivalry for the Ages.” Foyt fan or cheered for Mario Andretti but there weren’t many spectators that cheered for both. It was a time when an Indy car fan was either an A.J. It was a time when fans flocked to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and other circuits on the schedule and rooted for one of two drivers. It was a glorious era in the history of the Indianapolis 500 and Indy car racing. ![]()
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