The key to this book is 'Official History', and CART is obviously afraid of upsetting anyone. I can only suppose that the book was produced as a big, glossy (and expensive) advertisement to be given to friends, family and prospective sponsors! Anything that might be even slightly controversial is removed. For example in 'Mario Andretti A Driving Passion' the early stages of the Lola T700 are described in some detail, the car was '..horrendous-looking' and 'already ten years out of date', on its first lap of testing the rear suspension collapsed! Here the story is rather toned down ''.. it wasn't any good at the beginning. But we made consistent progress during the year and eventually won a couple of races'. That sums this book up, it's bland. It reads like one long publicity article, why else would a whole page be devoted to the PPG Pace Car Program? But why PPG stopped being the series sponsors? not a hint. You would look hard in this book for any of the politicking and self-serving which has been so much a feature of the management of this series. The book ends with an upbeat view of the future; sadly very wrong. Five years later CART is nearly bankrupt, most of the big teams and drivers are gone. Now how CART got into this state, that would make an interesting book!
Hazleton Publishing, 224 pages