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Article: UNSER REMEMBERS WHEN FOYT GAVE ROOKIE A LIFT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 26, 1987
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INDIANAPOLIS - Al Unser Sr. was in the Penske Racing Team
garage at Indianapolis Motor Speedway yesterday, watching his crew
dismantle the 1986 March-Cosworth that carried him to an historic
fourth Indianapolis 500 victory Sunday and a funny thought struck
him.
In his first full-throttled gallop at the Speedway in 1965,
Unser recalled, he arrived a rookie with an unstable ride, the
Arciero Brothers' Maserati. The car had failed him in
qualifications, and it appeared his debut at Indy was going to be a
boondoggle. But that was before A.J. Foyt stepped, or better yet
ambled, into the picture.
"We were having trouble with my car and we couldn't get it to
run the way we wanted to," ...