He spent a lot more time really focusing on making the car work. Al worked hard at it too, but Al wasn’t into the detail as much as Bobby was, as far as taking it home, building his own wind tunnel, all that kind of stuff. That didn’t mean that Al didn’t care, or that he didn’t work at that kind of stuff. But Bobby was more technical in that respect.”
He ranks in the top ten at Indianapolis in races led (10), laps led (440) and laps completed.
Although he was no longer an Indy car driver, he was hardly retired. There were businesses to run and still some racing to do. In 1986, he returned to Pikes Peak to win and unprecedented 13th title-in record time. And, in 1993, he set a Bonneville Salt Flat land speed record of 223.709 in the Modified D Roadster class which stood for 18 years. Also in 1993 Bobby raced in “the “Fastmasters” series winning the championship in a very competitive field of retired professional race drivers. Winning was very satisfying and the $100,000 payday was a great bonus for having fun!
But most memorable was when he joined ABC sports as a driver analyst in 1987 and had the pleasurable experience of helping call his brother’s fourth Indy 500 win. In Victory Lane, milk still in hand, Jack Arute passed his headset and microphone over to Al. From the booth, Bobby said, "The family is proud of you." Never without an opinion, Bobby’s verbal duels with fellow driver analyst Sam Posey made for entertaining television. In 1989, he won an Emmy for his part in ABC’s Indy 500 telecast. He was on the air for 11 consecutive Indy 500s through 1997 and had reached a new pinnacle, but that should hardly be surprising. It’s what he had always done.