Flashback to the 1983 24 Hours of Daytona. As a promotional stunt, for race sponsor at the time, Pepsi Cola, A.J. Foyt, and NASCAR champion Darrell Waltrip, raced an Aston Martin Nimrod GTP prototype. The outing did not go as planned at all. Ironically, after the car retired, Foyt joined up with another team, Preston Henn's Swap Shop Porsche 935 outfit, and despite a downright grouchy and skeptical Frenchman, Bob Wollek, he, and Foyt, would go on to win the race, after he said of Foyt, "ugh! He knows nothing about the car or this kind of racing! He'll ruin our race!" Guess again. Those chaps, won!
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