Jay Creech, who calls Indianapolis his hometown and describes himself as a prankster, joined AJ Foyt Racing this season to work as a rear-end mechanic on the No. 55 Sexton Properties Chevrolet. He also owns Creech Motorsports, a vintage car restoration company that he bought after working there as a teenager. His life is centered
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NASHVILLE (Aug. 6, 2023) — For the first time in three years, the No. 14 Sexton Properties Chevrolet finished the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix with Santino Ferrucci at the wheel. However, for teammate Benjamin Pedersen in the No. 55 Sexton Properties Chevrolet, it was a case of wrong place, wrong time. Ferrucci started
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NASHVILLE (Aug. 5, 2023) — Guarded optimism was the feeling going into qualifying for the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix Saturday evening. Benjamin Pedersen was 12th in the morning practice and Santino Ferrucci was 16th. The practice was delayed 40 minutes due to rain and standing water in several areas of the 2.1-mile street
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Jeremy Villarde, born and raised in Chicago, earned a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago before joining AJ Foyt Racing this year. Mentored by shock engineer Warren Wilson, Villarde works on the shocks (aka dampers) for both cars. He is also the inside rear tire changer on the No.
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NEWTON, Iowa (July 22, 2023) — “We’ve got to try something different for tomorrow,” Larry Foyt told his team after the Hy-Vee Homefront 250 in which both drivers, veteran and rookie, struggled in the 250-lap race around Iowa Speedway’s high banks. Moments after the race the drivers and engineers were debriefing in the engineering transporter
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eremy Hall joined AJ Foyt Racing in June last year to drive the team’s engineering transporter which carries well over $1 million in racing equipment. A second-generation truck driver, Hall began his career in motorsports 23 years ago. We asked him a few questions… What was first race you attended? JH: “My first race I
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TORONTO (July 16, 2023) — “Just can’t catch a break!” Benjamin Pedersen’s reaction to the Lap 1 chain reaction accident summed up the feelings of the AJ Foyt Racing team which saw both cars caught up in the multi-car crash at the exit of Turn 1 at the start of the Honda Indy Toronto. Seven
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TORONTO (July 15, 2023)–Rain midway through qualifying for the Honda Indy Toronto created an interesting scenario for AJ Foyt Racing as Benjamin Pedersen ran first in dry conditions for Group 1 and Santino Ferrucci in Group 2 ran in the rain. The team struggled in practice yesterday but made some progress overnight as they were
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Canadian Phil Reia joined AJ Foyt Racing as a data acquisition engineer after working on Foyt’s third entry in the 2021 Indianapolis 500 when driver J.R. Hildebrand was the highest finisher on the team. Reia now works on race weekends with the No. 14 Sexton Properties Chevrolet driven by Santino Ferrucci. We asked him a
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Chicago (June 22, 2023) – IFS, the global cloud enterprise software company, has announced that legendary American racing team AJ Foyt Racing has selected IFS as their strategic technology partner for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 IndyCar Racing seasons with options for extension. The multi-year partnership will see AJ Foyt Racing leverage IFS Ultimo for
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