When Breaks Get It Together!

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit.

Saturday night’s IndyCar race at World Wide Technology Raceway was a wonderful show.

New guys were at the front of the field. New ideas played a part in race strategy and that meant there was drama and tension about who would win.

Some of that drama and tension might have been born in the three-week Olympic break for NBC. Podium finisher Linus Lundquist put it perfectly: “Before that it was flat out since the end of April.” He said he never had time to go back and look at what he’d learned. Everything was a push to get ready for the next race next week.

I hope that’s not lost on IndyCar’s decision makers. The push to make money can’t supersede the need to put on a good show to attract fans so money can be made.

The same with NASCAR.

You can’t put on race after race without taking a break to learn what works and what doesn’t. Otherwise, you’ll end up with drivers so immersed in winning that they’ll crash into other drivers to get into the spotlight by whatever means necessary.

Flat out looks good but the Coyote went flat out to catch the Roadrunner and how’d that usually work out?

Peace.