![]() Everything is digital now (no more stopwatches!) and HD Go Pro cameras capture a driver's every move on track. Over the years the name has changed – from CART Driving 101, to Driving 101, to Mario Andretti Racing Experience - and so has the product. Lutz’s cars were even used in Stallone’s 2001 movie “Driven.” In addition to racing fans, celebrities passed through, too, adding cache to the school – two were singer Leann Rimes and actor Sylvester Stallone. Early going was tough, but by 2001 Lutz had negotiated the corner - a $200,000 profit on sales of $3.3 million. To launch CART Driving 101, he put in $5 million and opened for business in 1999 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Retirement didn't suit Lutz well so he built another school, this time with faster, open-wheel formula cars. Leo Hindery, then president of TCI, liked his own experience so much he asked to buy Lutz’s shares in 1997. ![]() After three years, the school had sent 35,000 happy campers through without serious mishap.
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