FORT WORTH, TX – AJ Foyt Racing returns home this weekend for the annual stop to the Texas Motor Speedway. See, the team’s headquarters is listed as Waller, Texas. So, the DXC Technology 600 is considered Foyt’s home race.

After all, his nickname is “Super Tex.”

But, with how this team stands entering Saturday night’s race on the 1.5-mile track, team owner AJ Foyt has had enough. He spoke to NBC Sports during qualifying on Friday night and voiced his displeasures on the direction that this team is heading.

“I can’t stand for what we’re doing and I think my son Larry (Foyt) feels the same way,” a disgusted Foyt said prior to qualifying. “It’s no enjoyment getting blowed off like we are and we’re just not going to tolerate it any longer.”

Shots fired.

How did the team respond?

Tony Kanaan scrapped the outside SAFER barrier in Turn 2 and didn’t complete his run. The famed No. 14 Chevrolet will start last on their own turf (22nd). His teammate Matheus Leist will only start one row in front in 20th.

Two of the last three starting spots belong to Foyt. Two of the last three spots in the points standings belong to Foyt drivers.

When was enough, enough?

Sounds like it’s now.

This organization hasn’t won a race since the Grand Prix of Long Beach in 2013. In fact, that’s their lone victory in the series since Airton Dare’s win in 2002. Remember when Kenny Brack won the 1999 Indy 500? Yeah, Dare and Takuma Sato’s wins are the only trips to victory lane since.

That’s two wins in the last 311 Indy Car races.

What’s even more troubling is that they’re not even competitive. They have just two top five finishes since the 2016 season, none coming last year. Over the last decade?

11.

The most top fives in a season by any driver for Foyt was two by Sato in 2013 and again 2014. The last time one of their drivers earned more than two top fives in a single season was Eliseo Salazar with four in 2001.

Their last pole came back in 2014. Sato’s two poles that year and his single pole in 2013 are their only poles since Billy Boat’s pole in 1999.

This season, Kanaan has started 20th or worse in six of the nine races. His best starting spot is 16th for the Indy 500. He has just two finishes inside of the top 15 all year, one being a ninth place run for the ‘500 too.

Leist, has qualified 20th or worse seven times already in 2019 including six straight. He’s finished 15th or worse in all but one race including four finishes outside of the top 20.

The team is reeling. The problem is, they’ve made so many wholesale changes over the last few years, they’re on the brink of needing to do so again.

In 2017, they switched from Honda power to Chevrolet. They switched drivers as well as the engineering department. In 2018, they brought in two new drivers. So far in 2019, they don’t look any better than 2018.

This frustrates Foyt to no end. After all, no one has as many championship as Foyt as a driver (7). No one has as many trips to victory lane (67 either). No one has more Indy 500 wins (4) than him. He sits third in the career poles list (53), second in most career starts (369), third in career laps led (6,692), second in podiums (119) and third in top five finishes (149).

So, for someone with so much success behind the wheel, you can see why the frustration level is past its boiling point.