The Indy 500 is next weekend, assuming that there are any cars left to actually race since every time I turned around the last two weekends they were picking pieces of the cars out of the wall. Yesterday was no exception as A.J. Foyt IV bumped his way into the field only to see his gas cap come off, resulting in a fiery crash.

And yes you did read that right, his gas cap came off.

“Anyone who is not afraid of fire, I think is crazy,” said Foyt, standing in his grandfather’s garage. “Fire’s the worst thing for me. It was scary. The important thing is that the protection we had, was why we had no (other) burns.

“We know who did it. I don’t want to single anyone out, but he’s probably going to be looking for a new job and it’s too bad because he’s a good guy. He just made a mistake.”

Foyt was asked if the elder Foyt, his former boss who has two cars of his own in the field, was upset by his scary crash.

“He was worried,” the youngster said. “You know, he’s a grandfather first of all. And then he gets mad at the guy who did it. There’s really no excuse for that.”

Uh oh. On the list of people I DO NOT want mad at me, A.J. Foyt (the original) is way up high on it.

SI/AP