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<\/a>Perhaps my standards, and my expectations, are too high, but I \u00a0 find this new 256-page book disappointing. The first fact to accept is that it effectively ignores the popular North American series\u2014birthed and \u201cnurtured\u201d by the SCCA for nine seasons before being summarily abandoned\u2014to focus instead upon iterations of the American V-8-based formula as it transpired elsewhere in the world. The second disappointment is that the narrative of these events in Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand seems very much a third-person recounting, in a dreadfully passive voice, of reportage from events of the day rather than a story based in those reports but supplemented by fresh comments from those who were there taking part. Finding a quote of any kind is all but impossible.<\/p>\n