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A.J. Foyt returns to the Indy 500, his legacy long secured and grief fresh from his wife's death

A.J. Foyt sits in his office, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, in Waller, Texas. March 7 of this year, when Foyt went to a Houston hospital to have a pacemaker installed. He was deeply opposed to the procedure, mostly because he believes a pacemaker killed his mother in 1988. He asked the doctors what would happen if he didn’t get it. “I think they were scared my heart was slowing down too much,” said Foyt, who has never slowed down a day in his life. “(The doctor) said the bad thing was you can pass out or have a stroke. Well, I didn’t want to be driving from Houston out here to the shop and pass out and kill somebody. So that’s the reason I did it, because I still like to drive my own car.” (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
A.J. Foyt sits in his office, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, in Waller, Texas. March 7 of this year, when Foyt went to a Houston hospital to have a pacemaker installed. He was deeply opposed to the procedure, mostly because he believes a pacemaker killed his mother in 1988. He asked the doctors what would happen if he didn’t get it. “I think they were scared my heart was slowing down too much,” said Foyt, who has never slowed down a day in his life. “(The doctor) said the bad thing was you can pass out or have a stroke. Well, I didn’t want to be driving from Houston out here to the shop and pass out and kill somebody. So that’s the reason I did it, because I still like to drive my own car.” (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

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