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Anthony Joseph Foyt IV
Nationality	American
Date of Birth	May 25, 1984 (1984-05-25) (age 23)
Place of Birth	Louisville, Kentucky
2007 IndyCar Series
Debut season	2003
Current team	Vision Racing
Car No.	22
Former teams	A. J. Foyt Enterprises Andretti Green Racing
Starts	65
Wins	0
Poles	0
Best finish	14th in 2007
Previous series
2005-2006 2002	NASCAR Busch Series Infiniti Pro Series
Championship titles
2002	Indy Pro Series

A.J. Foyt IV (born May 25, 1984 in Louisville, Kentucky[1]) is an American race car driver. He is the grandson of racing legend A. J. Foyt, who guided him through much of his career.

Contents 1 Early career in IndyCar 2 Nascar 3 Return to IndyCar 4 Trivia 5 Career Results 5.1 Indycar 5.2 Indy 500 results 6 External links

Foyt raced karts for many years before moving to formula race cars in 2001. In 2002, A.J. moved to his grandfather's team, A. J. Foyt Enterprises, in the Infiniti Pro Series and won the championship with four wins in seven events. In 2003, he. moved up to Foyt Enterprises' IRL IndyCar Series team, finishing 21st in the final standings. He continued to struggle in IndyCars, finishing 18th in the 2004 points and 20th in 2005. In the 2005 Indianapolis 500 Foyt was involved in an accident with a top Champ Car driver, Bruno Junqueira. The crash broke Junqueira's back and blame was placed mainly on Foyt.[2]

In October 2005, Foyt announced that at the end of the 2005 season, he would leave Foyt Enterprises and drive in the NASCAR Busch Series for the #38 Akins Motorsports team and was signed as a developmental driver for Evernham Motorsports. He ran several events in the #38 late in 2005, but failed to produce results. In 2006, he was scheduled to run the entire Busch Series schedule in the #38 and be a competitor for the Rookie of the Year award. However, early in the 2006 season, Akins was purchased by Braun Racing, which switched the #38 from Dodge to Chevrolet bodies. Foyt had an exclusive contract with Dodge that prevented him from continuing with the team. After a week off, Ray Evernham found him a ride with FitzBradshaw Racing, but he failed to qualify for his first race with the team and has not attempted a race since. He was removed from Evernham's development program in September 2006.

On September 5th, 2006, Foyt was tabbed by the 2005 IndyCar Championship team, Andretti Green Racing, to replace injured regular AGR driver Dario Franchitti. Foyt drove the #27 Klein Tools/Canadian Club Dallara Honda in the IRL season's final event at Chicagoland Speedway and finished 14th.

In January 2007, Foyt signed with Vision Racing to return to the IRL for the 2007 season as well as drive with the team in the 2007 24 Hours of Daytona[3].

In March 2007, Foyt was charged with DUI stemming from an incident in December of the previous year.[4]

On August 5, 2007, during the Firestone Indy 400, Foyt was involved in a spectacular seven-car crash in which Dario Franchitti's car was sent airborne and then came down on Foyt's car. While Foyt was uninjured, Franchitti's car left visible tire marks on Foyt's helmet.[5] Foyt's crew was able to repair the car and get him back on the track where he drove to an 8th place finish. The following week at the Meijer Indy 300, Foyt's crew gave him great pit stops which allowed him to take to lead with 10 laps remaining. Even though Foyt was passed a few laps later by Tony Kanaan and Scott Dixon, he managed to hold on the rest of the way and drive to a career-best 3rd place finish, the first Top-5 finish of his career. It was also the best finish in Vision Racing's team history, tying Tomas Scheckter's 3rd place finish at the Milwaukee Mile in 2006.

• A.J. Foyt IV currently holds the record for the youngest driver to race in the Indy 500, his rookie race in 2003 occurred on his 19th birthday. He took the record from Josele Garza who was slightly over 2 months older for his first start in 1981.[6]
• Appeared in The Dukes of Hazzard (film) [7]
• Is an avid Texas Longhorns fan. He is almost always seen wearing a Texas Longhorns cap around the paddock area

(Races in Bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
2003	Foyt	HMS 17	PHX Ret	JPN Ret	IND 18	TXS Ret	PPIR Ret	RIR Ret	KAN Ret	NSH 17	MIS Ret	STL Ret	KTY 17	NZR 11	CHI 17	CAL 17	TX2 Ret		21st	198
2004	Foyt	HMS 15	PHX 14	JPN 15	IND Ret	TXS Ret	RIR 11	KAN 13	NSH 16	MIL 16	MIS 15	KTY 18	PPIR Ret	NZR 15	CHI Ret	CAL Ret	TX2 10		18th	232
2005	Foyt	HMS 9	PHX 14	STP Ret	JPN 14	IND Ret	TXS 18	RIR 14	KAN 16	NSH 12	MIL Ret	MIS 12	KTY 9	PPIR Ret	SNM	CHI 11	WGL	CAL Ret	20th	231
2006	Andretti-Green	HMS	STP	JPN	IND	WGL	TXS	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIL	MIS	KTY	SNM	CHI 14				27th	16
2007	Vision	HMS Ret	STP 13	JPN 13	KAN 9	IND 14	MIL 13	TXS Ret	IOW Ret	RIR 13	WGL 15	NSH 12	MDO 13	MIS Ret	KTY 3	SNM Ret	DET Ret	CHI 10	14th	315

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Indianapolis 500 Wins	Championships
5	3	65	0	0	1	7	0	0

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish
2003	Dallara	Toyota	23rd	18th
2004	Dallara	Toyota	21st	33rd
2005	Dallara	Toyota	28th	28th
2007	Dallara	Honda	18th	14th

• A.J.'s official website.
• A.J. Foyt IV Career IndyCar Statistics

Sporting positions
Preceded by None	Infiniti Pro Series Champion 2002	Succeeded by Mark Taylor