INDIANAPOLIS — A.J Foyt Racing saw moving the entirety of its operations to the Indianapolis area as the next step.
For years, the team had built and prepared its cars in Waller, Texas, a suburb of Houston. But with other teams building headquarters in the Indianapolis area (including Rahal Letterman Lanigan, Andretti, and Prema), A.J. Foyt Racing moved the preparation of its cars to its Main Street location in Speedway.
For team owner A.J. Foyt, It came down to the number of race-minded people in the area.
“I shut down the shop in Houston about a month ago, and I moved everything up here,” Foyt told IndyStar at his book signing event in Speedway on Thursday. “When I was down there driving, it wasn’t hard, but it’s so hard to get people. And up here you’ve got a lot of race people. And I felt like since I had my shop up here, I’d do all my operations up here.”
The team had split its operations between Texas and Indianapolis for years, with a team of engineers in both locations. With the team becoming more and more competitive, team president Larry Foyt said, it was time to bring everything together.