This is the Statt Mann Baby. It’s time to Scatt a little bit. If you care about the autonomy of motor racing as competition and not side show you should pay attention to this mini confrontation between Denny Hamlin and NASCAR. Hamlin was fined $25,000 last week for comments critical of NASCAR’s Gen-6 Sprint Cup…
2012 Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Driver of the Year RJ Anderson had to recover from a dramatic accident last year in Phoenix in a Pro Lite truck. You can see the accident on You Tube. But our visit with the young off-road star and 1-800 LoanMart driver Sunday night was about 2013 and…
Los Angeles Angels picther C.J. Wilson is becoming an important person in The Freak Nation. After a long visit in Daytona, Wilson was back Sunday night after his Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge team won its first race Saturday at Circuit of the Americas in Texas. Wilson pitched in Texas through the ’11 season but…
2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski is a good Friend of the Freaks. He’s been a visitor to The Freak Nation since he was getting his championship career underway in the Nationwide Series. But he had a long visit with Crash Gladys over the weekend in Phoenix and he introduced us to another friend,…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. It’s time to Scatt a little bit. Just some wild-haired thoughts as the green flag dropped on the NASCAR race in Phoenix this afternoon. You can agree or not… doesn’t matter. First, this effort to single out Danica Patrick in the “Drivers Start Your Engines” call is getting real…
NHRA Phoenix Top Fuel winner Tony Schumacher is a regular visitor in The Freak Nation. When you win seven Top Fuel titles you get regular reservations to The Freak Nation on Sunday nights. Schumacher leads the Top Fuel points by a substantial margin after only two rounds of the 2013 Mello Yello Drag Racing season.…
Five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion and, now, two-time Daytona 500 winner Jimmie Johnson came into The Freak Nation Sunday night and felt free to talk about a host of issues from his Daytona 500 win Sunday to Harlem Shake videos on You Tube. In between Johnson found time to remark about his triathlon and marathon…
Yahoo! Sports’ Jay Busbee writes about motor racing and golf on the website. But it was his coverage of this weekend’s Daytona 500 that got out attention. That, and the Nationwide accident on Saturday that saw more than two dozen fans injured when a car got into the catch fence and exploded into debris. Busbee…
NASCAR Sprint Cup star A.J. Allmendinger may be at a crossroads in his career. He has a few rides lined up in NASCAR but last week he got an IndyCar test from the Penske Racing Team, one of the two most successful programs in IndyCar. Allmendinger isn’t talking about any full-time plans in IndyCar nor…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. It’s time to Scatt a little bit. The saddest part of Saturday’s Nationwide accident at Daytona is NASCAR’s belief that it wasn’t inevitable. It’s easy to say after the fact that we’ll study everything to make sure our fans are safe. But after Geoff Bodine’s truck crash at Daytona…
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