A. J. Foyt IV

He took the record from Josele Garza who was slightly over 2 months older for his first start in 1981.

Anthony Joseph Foyt IV (born May 25, 1984) is an American football scout and former racing driver.

He is a scouting assistant for the Indianapolis Colts, and drove in the IndyCar Series and briefly the NASCAR Busch Series.

He is the third generation of the famous Foyt family.

He began his career racing karts.

Foyt was born on May 25, 1984, in Louisville, Kentucky, but lists his hometown as Hockley, Texas, the long-time residence of his grandfather and four-time Indianapolis 500 winner A. J. Foyt, who guided him through much of his career.

He is the son of Nancy and thoroughbred trainer Anthony Joseph Foyt III.

His cousin, Larry Foyt, also raced cars.

He spent much of his early years working with some horses trained by his father at the horse stables of Churchill Downs before his family relocated to Texas when he was six years old.

He progressed to racing karts on paved road courses and dirt tracks where he remained for the following six years, before going on to drive formula race cars in 2001.

In 2001, he won six of nine SCCA events to claim the Southwest Regional championship.

He finished third in SCCA's national point championships and was the series' Rookie of the Year.

That same year, he competed at the World Karting Association's Dirt World Championships at Daytona Beach, Florida and finished second in the Briggs Heavy feature event.

Foyt competed in his first USAC Silver Crown event that August.

He moved up through the open wheel racing ranks, winning the 2002 Infiniti Pro Series.

Foyt is a June 2002 graduate of Waller High School.

In early 2002, he worked for his grandfather's team A. J. Foyt Enterprises in its race shop and as a pit lane crew member for driver Airton Daré.

Foyt was later signed to drive for the team in the newly formed Infiniti Pro Series in mid-year.

Foyt won the championship with four wins and four pole positions in seven events.

After passing his rookie test at Texas Motor Speedway on October 31, 2002, allowing him to obtain an Indy Racing League (IRL) racing license, he progressed to Foyt Enterprises' IRL IndyCar Series team for the 2003 season, finishing 21st in the final standings.

Foyt currently holds the record for the youngest driver to race in the Indy 500.

When Foyt made his first Indianapolis 500 race in 2003, he became the youngest driver to start in the event.

His rookie race in 2003 occurred on his 19th birthday.

He continued to struggle in the IndyCar Series, finishing 18th overall in the 2004 season points and falling to 20th in the 2005 series.

He continued in IndyCar for two more years until his back was injured at the 2005 Indianapolis 500.

Later that season he made several NASCAR Busch Series starts.

Foyt appeared in the 2005 film, The Dukes of Hazzard, and is an avid Texas Longhorns fan.

In the 2005 Indianapolis 500 Foyt was involved in an accident with Champ Car World Series driver Bruno Junqueira, who sustained a fractured back.

The season did not improve as the team switched from Toyota to Chevrolet power mid-season and Foyt was replaced for the late-season road course events by Jeff Bucknum.

In October 2005, Foyt announced that at the end of the 2005 season, he would leave Foyt Enterprises and drive in the NASCAR Busch Series for the No. 38 Akins Motorsports team and was signed as a developmental driver for Evernham Motorsports.

He competed in the final four rounds of the 2005 Busch Series in the No. 38 car, and finished outside the top twenty in all of them.

After the season, he moved from Texas to Charlotte, North Carolina, and was scheduled to run the entire Busch Series schedule in the No. 38 and be a competitor for the Rookie of the Year award.

He was scheduled to continue in the Busch Series in 2006, but the team was bought out and his contract prevented him from driving a non-Dodge car.

He returned to IndyCar late that season.

However, early in the 2006 season, Akins was purchased by Braun Racing, which switched the No. 38 from a Dodge to a Chevrolet.

Foyt had an exclusive contract with Dodge that prevented him from continuing with the team.

He has not raced since 2009, although he drove for his grandfather's A. J. Foyt Enterprises team in trials for the 2010 Indianapolis 500.

He married Indianapolis Colts vice-president Casey Irsay, daughter of team owner Jim Irsay, in July 2009.

They have three children.

Foyt began racing Junior Dragsters as a nine-year-old after a family friend and his uncle purchased a dragster for him and won two championships with it.