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I've read the White Paper. It has some good thoughts, particularly for the time it was conceived. CART was really born, led by Penske, Patrick, Tyler Alexander, Jerry O'Connell and others at a time when the series needed a boost, right after Tony Hulman had died and the tragic USAC plane crash occurred, leaving a void of leadership and they grabbed it up and took the sport forward. And as they set the stage, PPG threw money into it and held it together with the "500," overcoming what we have today.
But that was 29 years ago. A lot has changed, a lot has happened since then. And CC never has been CART and was unnecessary four years ago when it was born by people with far different reasons than the founders of CART ever envisioned. Therefore, Dan Gurney's White Paper, a treasure of its time, does not apply.
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