Larry Foyt, president of AJ Foyt Racing, believes the arrival from Ganassi of IndyCar veteran Tony Kanaan and race engineer Eric Cowdin can lift the team’s performances – but warned not to read too much into the team’s encouraging testing form. Last fall, Foyt and his legendary father AJ who owns the team, ditched both their drivers for a second straight year, replacing Carlos Munoz and Conor Daly with 2004 IndyCar champion and 2013 Indy 500 winner Tony Kanaan, and rookie Matheus Leist. While Mike Colliver was retained as Leist’s race engineer, Kanaan arrived from Chip Ganassi Racing with Eric Cowdin who will this year serve as Foyt’s technical director and race engineer for...
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