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Foyt on IndyCar’s all-time wins list by picking up his 57th career victory Sunday in the Grand Prix of Long Beach.

Against these stood the traditional Indy roadsters, long-snouted brutes in which drivers sat bolt-upright behind the engines, most of them the growling four-cylinder Offenhausers that had ruled the speedway since the end of World War II. They made the rear-engine cars look almost dainty and were driven by the traditional Indy regulars — Foyt, Jones, Jim Hurtubise, Rodger Ward and others.

Then, suddenly, a bearing in the gearbox failed, Jones dropped back and Foyt, threading his way through a multi-car accident on the final lap, scored the third of his four Indy victories.

Foyt’s total of 67 in the series.

Foyt, Juan Pablo Montoya and Tony Stewart by showing once again that he is capable of winning in any kind of car.