A.J. Foyt Racing announced Friday that it would run the No. 55 car and not the No. 88 car in 2023 after it realized that its car numbers combined to form a numerical white supremacist symbol.
The IndyCar team’s flagship car is the No. 14 car. Foyt ran that number throughout his legendary career. The team previously announced that it would field the No. 88 car for Benjamin Pedersen this upcoming season and said Friday that Pederson would instead drive the No. 55.
“After the reveal of the No. 88 livery last week, it was brought to our attention that the combination of our two individually entered numbers carries certain ideologic and symbolic references,” the team said in a statement. “A.J. Foyt Racing does not condone nor support any such ideologies or symbols and to avoid any reprehensible associations we have changed the entry number from 88 to 55.”
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