#Tony steward daytona 24 driver#
#Tony steward daytona 24 upgrade#

'I can't holler about my life,' Foyt said. And I just hope he goes out on top.'įor Foyt, he will try to get the most out of every day. If you don't have no feelings, it wouldn't bother you, but Tony's got a lot of feelings. 'He's really a soft-hearted person and something like that really bothers you. I've been friends with Tony for a long time. 'I think people don't realize that wreck really hurt him more.

#Tony steward daytona 24 driver#

Foyt was involved in a crash where a driver died in 1956, and said Stewart's involvement in the accident that took the life of Kevin Ward Jr. Now how we're going to go, that's something nobody can figure out today.'įoyt survived his fair share of crashes while racing, and in talking about what advice he had for friend Tony Stewart as Stewart embarks on his final year of Sprint Cup racing, Foyt responded by saying that he hopes Stewart can have a good season. 'Y'all have lost a lot of your friends and it's going to continue. 'Time just passes on,' Foyt told a handful of reporters. The team plans to field a third car at Indianapolis. He hopes he can attend all of the Verizon Ind圜ar Series races this year and believes his team, with Jack Hawksworth and Takuma Sato, will be improved. Every day is a better day for me.'įoyt has suffered two serious staph infections and undergone triple-bypass heart surgery, surgery for bed sores and bone spurs in his right knee, as well as two right knee replacements and one left hip replacement - all in the past four years. 'Every now and then after I've been sitting down, I kind of look like I'm drunk. And I made up my mind I wasn't going to walk with no cane. 'I kind of stagger a little bit and I'm just now getting to where I can walk again and out of the wheelchair and the walker. 'I'm feeling good,' Foyt said Friday at the track. Foyt, the 1972 winner of the Daytona 500, won the Rolex 24 co-driving a Porsche in 19. In August, the four-time Indianapolis 500 champion fought a staph infection that resulted in a right knee replacement in September.įoyt, 81, will wave the green flag Saturday for the Rolex 24 At Daytona, the annual 24-hour sports-car race at Daytona International Speedway. Foyt has had a series of health issues the past four years, and he proved once again that he can battle ailments as well as he could drive a race car. Foyt feels sorry for Tony StewartĭAYTONA BEACH, Fla.

#Tony steward daytona 24 upgrade#

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