Table of Contents
Acknowledgments v
Foreword Fighting for Relevancy Robin Miller vii
Introduction Author's Perspective ix
Chapter 1 Postwar Roots 1
Chapter 2 The First Foreign Invasion 11
Chapter 3 Decline in the 1970s 25
Chapter 4 The Birth of CART 39
Chapter 5 The First Split: CART vs. USAC 57
Chapter 6 The Brief CRL Truce 69
Chapter 7 The Second Foreign Invasion 81
Chapter 8 On a World Stage 97
Chapter 9 The Speedway Flexes Its Muscle 113
Chapter 10 The Second Split: IRL vs. CART 127
Chapter 11 Headed for a Showdown 139
Chapter 12 May 26, 1996: Indy Car Racing's Day of Infamy 153
Chapter 13 Bumpy Ride for the IRL 167
Chapter 14 CART Goes Public 179
Chapter 15 Unity Lost 193
Chapter 16 A Rapid Downhill Slide 207
Chapter 17 Beyond Hope 225
Chapter 18 The End of CART 243
Chapter 19 The Third Split: Champ Car vs. IRL 259
Chapter 20 Unification and Recession 281
Chapter 21 Randy Bernard and the Symbolic End of the IRL 303
Chapter 22 Consolidation and a Sellout 100th 325
Chapter 23 Back to the Future 337
Chapter 24 "We Probably Had Taken It as Far as We Can" 351
Perspective Jim McGee 361
Perspective Mario Andretti 365
Perspective Dr. Stephen Olvey 371
Perspective Arie Luyendyk 375
Perspective Andrew Craig 381
Perspective Chip Ganassi 389
Perspective Dario Franchitti 393
Bibliography 399
Index 405
