6/23/2023 0 Comments Racing for the Sun by Amy Lane“I said, ’You can forget it and stick it up your ass.’ I started to put my underwear and pants on and was walking out. It got to be about 10:30-11 and they said, ‘It might be another hour or two,’” Foyt recalled. “They told us to be there at 5:30, so OK. He showed up on time for the procedure, Lucy by his side, and they waited - and waited and waited. So that’s the reason I did it, because I still like to drive my own car.” Well, I didn’t want to be driving from Houston out here to the shop and pass out and kill somebody. “(The doctor) said the bad thing was you can pass out or have a stroke. “I think they were scared my heart was slowing down too much,” said Foyt, who has never slowed down a day in his life. He asked the doctors what would happen if he didn’t get it. He was deeply opposed to the procedure, mostly because he believes a pacemaker killed his mother in 1981. That brings his story to March 7 of this year, when Foyt went to a Houston hospital to have a pacemaker installed. His father grabbed a fire extinguisher to save his son. It ran over his ankle and broke it as Foyt, engulfed in flames, ran toward a pond. Or the crash in 1972, when Foyt had to leap from a burning dirt champ car. Parnelli Jones stepped in, scooped dirt from Foyt’s mouth and that was all it took to revive him. Like his 1965 flip in a stock car at Riverside, when doctors on site pronounced him dead. And then there are the wrecks, so many of those.
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