Above: Joe Leonard at Indianapolis in the City of Daytona Beach Eagle-Ford, 1969 He was a champion on two and four wheels who drove for Dan Gurney, A.J. Foyt and Parnelli Jones and earned the respect of anyone who raced against him or watched him race. Joe Leonard, who died Thursday at the age of 84 in a nursing home in San Jose, made an impressive transition from motorcycles to Indy cars that dazzled those three open-wheel legends. "I can't think of anyone who was any better," said Gurney, who gave Leonard his initial ride at Indianapolis in 1965. "I mean he was on the Super Team and beat Big Al [Unser] and Mario [Andretti] over and over, so that should tell you...
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