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Boat Hopes to Win Again At Texas

Tony G 15 April 2005 23:00:27
 FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 8, 1998 -- A.J. Foyt, the four-wheel
racing wizard from Texas, perched on a work bench in an Indianapolis Motor
Speedway garage last week and watched intently as his crew worked on Billy
Boat's race car.


It was the Monday after the Atlanta 500 Classic and only
preparation for a tire testing session. Foyt is 63 and has done about
everything there is to do in racing. He easily could be coasting through
senior citizenry and not concern himself with such a trivial couple of
days.


Not Foyt. He smells a championship, something that hasn't come his
way in a long time. Even though he no longer is a driver, the fire flames
in his belly again.


The Pep Boys Indy Racing League returns to Texas Motor Speedway
for the Lone Star 500 on Sept. 20. On June 6 at TMS, Boat outgalloped Greg
Ray under the lights for the victory that started Foyt's team on a summer
hot streak nearly matching Texas' prolonged heat wave.


Boat has rebounded from crash injuries suffered June 28 at New
Hampshire that caused him to miss two East Coast races to capture two
straight poles. And teammate Kenny Brack has forged a Pep Boys Indy Racing
League-record three-race winning streak that has propelled him into a
23-point lead in the standings with two races remaining.


"If you're going to be in this game you don't rest on your laurels
of what you did before," said Foyt, a four-time Indianapolis 500 champion.


"To stay on top of it you're going to have to work with the crew
and the drivers. And I've always been the type that has had hands on. I
could have rested on my laurels and probably had a lot more fun. But to
me, this is a lot of fun working with the guys."


Foyt, who captured his last major season title as a driver in
1979, credits his team's hard work and Boat's initial victory at Texas as
the impetus to its summer success.


"After that first victory they got a taste of it, and they've
worked that much harder," he said.


"Everything's falling our way, and it's not given to us. The guys
are working night and day. We've got a good engine program, and the
drivers are pushing the buttons."


Foyt realizes many people questioned his decision to release
drivers Scott Sharp and Davey Hamilton after last season and go with Boat
and Brack. He said the team had gotten stagnant.


"I know a lot of people laughed at us doing it, a lot of people
laughed at me, but, you know, you can't stay stagnant, and we weren't
making no progress where we were," he said.


Foyt and Boat got their first major attention at TMS in 1997 when
Boat received the checkered flag, but an all-night scoring audit revealed
that Arie Luyendyk actually crossed the finish line first.


Last June, Boat removed all doubt about his winning when he
outgunned Ray through the final laps, catching the checkered flag in his
Conseco-A.J. Foyt Racing Dallara/Aurora/Good­year by .928 of a second.


Some hard times hit the Foyt team in the next three weeks. First,
A.J.'s wife, Lucy, suffered a near-fatal heart attack the next evening
after the race. Then at New Hampshire, Boat suffered a broken left leg and
pelvis when his car was hit during a multicar accident.


At Charlotte, everything changed for the good. Brack came on
strong at the end to win his first race. Next at Pikes Peak International
Raceway near Colorado Springs, Boat returned on crutches, slipped into his
car and set a track record while winning his third PPG Pole of the season,
adding to his poles at Indianapolis and New Hampshire. Foyt also was on
crutches following knee surgery. In the race, Boat was in a torrid chase
for the victory but ran out of fuel two laps short. Brack had barely
enough fuel to get him to the finish line ahead of the pack for win No. 2.


The Pep Boys Indy Racing League circuit moved on to Atlanta for
the first time. Again the limping Boat did no hobbling in qualifying and
added his fourth PPG Pole of the season, second in a row. But in the race,
the left rear wheel of Boat's hooked the right front of Marco Greco's
machine, sending Boat sailing into the wall and out of the race.


Brack once again charged to the front with 17 laps to go to win
No. 3 in a row over fast-closing Hamilton.


"It's one thing to have success and another to win races," said
Boat, now relying on a cane for stability.


"We've been fast enough to win races and have been in kind of a
slump. We need to start finishing more races and be there at the end, and
hopefully we'll win our share."


Boat said that driving with a healing fracture is not a problem
once the constant pain diminishes. He added that the focus in the car
becomes so intense that the broken leg becomes a non-issue.


"I think when you're hurt it really give you a lot of incentive to
get back in the race car," he said. "I think that really contributes to
the speed of a recovery."


He noted that the incentive becomes even stronger when a driver
has a team that is capable of winning races. And that's what he has.


"I think the biggest thing with this team is the competition is so
close that it's the little things that make a difference," he said. "This
team concentrates on details, a lot of little things that aren't big by
themselves but can mentally add up and make that little bit of difference
in qualifying."


Foyt, of course, heads up Boat's operation as race strategist and
chief engineer. His nephew Tommy LaMance handles the team managing duties
for both cars and Craig Baranouski the crew chief chores on Boat's.
Working with them on Boat's car are Matt Lucas, Bill Spencer, Mike Tanner,
Case Leeuwenburg, Mark Lubin, Rob Grossman, Curt Barnhart, Bob Barnhart
and Glenn "Packy" Wheeler.


Boat said there is unity within the team garages.


"The bottom line is, we're all racers," he said.


"A.J.'s a racer, I'm a racer, Kenny's a racer. And we all have the
same goal, we want to win. That's the common thread between us all. We all
have the same desires and it helps us jell as a team."


LONE STAR 500 NOTEBOOK


Texas Two-Step: Billy Boat is the leading candidate to win the
Texas Two-Step Championship and a $100,000 bonus at this event. The
driver who scores the most combined points at this race and the True Value
500, completed June 6 at TMS, will earn the big bonus. Boat won the True
Value 500 in the Conseco Dallara/Aurora/Good­year owned by four-time
Indianapolis 500 winner A.J. Foyt, a Houston resident.


The driver with the second-highest total will earn $50,000. Greg
Ray, from Plano, Texas, finished second in the True Value 500 in the
TKM-Genoa Dallara/Aurora/Fire­stone.


Event schedule: The inaugural Lone Star 500 is scheduled to start at 2
p.m. (CDT) Sept. 20. The Dallas Morning News Pole Day qualifying for the
PPG Pole starts at 4 p.m. (CDT) Sept. 18.


Pep Boys Indy Racing League practice sessions will take place at
9:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. (CDT) Sept. 18, and 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. (CDT)
Sept. 19.


Broadcast schedule: The Lone Star 500 will be televised
live on ABC at 3 p.m. (EDT) Sept. 20. The Dallas Morning News Pole Day
qualifying for the PPG Pole will be televised live on SpeedVision at 5
p.m. (EDT) Sept. 18. The IMS Radio Network will broadcast the race live
at 3 p.m. (EDT) Sept. 20, with a pre-race show starting at 2:30 p.m.


Pit challenge: Team Pelfrey and Team Cheever will compete in a Pep Boys
Pit Stop Challenge from noon-1 p.m. (CDT) Sept. 16 at the Fort Worth
Stockyards. Team Cheever owner and driver, 1998 Indianapolis 500 champion
Eddie Cheever Jr., and Team Pelfrey driver Brian Tyler will be joined by
fellow Pep Boys Indy Racing League drivers for an autograph session after
the competition to see which team can complete a simulated pit stop
fastest.
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