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New Season, New Headlines in F1

The Formula One season opens this week in Bahrain. Lots of new stuff. Lots of new headlines, driver lineups, driver dreams and engineering ideas. A welcome headline this week has American Colton Herta getting a test driver deal from McLaren, run by an American Zak Brown. That synergy is the point of disappointment over what’s…

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Social Media Strikes Again

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Earlier this week I noticed a Tweet that moaned the sponsorship woes surrounding two young and brilliant IndyCar drivers, Colton Herta and Patricio O’Ward. Their money problems were supposed to be an indication of growing troubles in the sport. But upon further review,…