IndyCar Insider & NBC Pit Reporter Robin Miller took us way inside the IndyCar garage Sunday night. He had some potential headline making notes including a possible change in the plans of IndyCar Competition Director Derrick Walker. It was announced this week that Walker was leaving at the end of the season but Miller said…
IndyCar Mid-Ohio Winner Graham Rahal celebrated winning at his home track not far from his hometown Columbus, Ohio. Rahal’s win moves him within nine of the IndyCar championship points leader Juan Pablo Montoya. That’s a huge change from where Graham started the race 42 points behind Montoya. It’s the second win of the season for…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I was on my way home from another Saturday night at Irwindale Speedway last night when I stopped at a neighborhood gas station to feed an addiction, a late night snack. I noticed, though, that the gasoline for sale was scaled back from…
NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel winner in Denver was Steve Torrence Sunday afternoon. He interrupted his celebration to call The Freak Nation Sunday night. Denver is the start of the NHRA’s Western Swing in Denver, Seattle and Sonoma. Torrence explained the win and how he plans to spend his downtime in the Western Swing with…
Performance Racing Network NASCAR Anchor Doug Rice came into The Freak Nation Sunday Night to enlighten The Freaks on what’s gotten into Kyle Busch! The NASCAR Sprint Cup star has won four of the last five Cup races as he battles to make the Chase for the Championship despite missing eleven races after suffering a…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I don’t often compare anything NASCAR to Formula One but today I can. First, think back to 2005, Tony Stewart’s second Cup championship. At the second Charlotte race he had a tire blowout late. He battled back instead of quitting and his ultimate…
2012 IndyCar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay won the Saturday night race in Iowa, his second straight at the track but his first on the IndyCar circuit in 2015. RHR was pretty frank when he talked about the success of the racing in IndyCar this year but the fight to get people to see the races has…
Ricky Taylor and his brother Jordan went into the Canadian Tire Motorsports Park last weekend to pick up some lost momentum winning the Prototype category at the old Mosport. Taylor, though, had to answer some tough questions before he could get into the racing success. Questions like, what kind of pajamas to you wear? Things…
Dustin Long is the NBCSports.com NASCAR Insider who gets candid with his assessment of a Tweet from Dale Jr. Should the rules be changed to allow Kyle Bush into the post season Chase for the Championship? Should the season be shortened? Do the TV contracts allow for any of this? Dustin Long opens some doors…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. It’s popular to complain about IndyCar. And, in truth, there are some things to criticize. The schedule is comical. How you could have a national championship that disappears for seven months a year is beyond me. That’s a true problem. And having a…
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