This is the Statt Mann Baby.  It's time to Scatt a little bit.

A great show last night at the Formula Drift finale in Irwindale.  It was a huge crowd.  Lots of energy.  A championship was at stake and the competition was fast and furious.

It reminded me again of how motor racing competition can be entertaining but sport isn’t the pure definition of entertainment.

It can’t be duplicated like you can at a film or play.  The outcome isn’t predictable or scripted. 

When you go to a dictionary definition you find the words diversion or amusement attached to the word entertainment.  I didn’t find diversion or amusement in anything last night at the Formula Drift Title Fight finale.

Maybe I’m just too old school to buy this entertainment thing anymore.  And I think this constant attempt to attach entertainment to competition is doing competition a disservice.

And the combination of the two – competition and entertainment – has left a curious reality in the mind of fans.  The application of entertainment demands on competition CAN leave competition wanting.  Competition can be too expensive and too time consuming.

Even last night I saw people leaving the racetrack as the finals were getting started.  It was about three hours into the competition.  And that’s about the time they’d be leaving the cineplex, right?

It’s just a bad linkage when you’re trying to build a fan base for competition and not sell a movie ticket for a couple hours of diversion.

Peace.