This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Nothing I could say could change your mind about the Lewis Hamilton/Max Verstappen accident on the first lap of Silverstone Sunday. So, instead, consider this: The Hamilton Commission this week released a report on improving diversity in the Formula One industry. Lewis Hamilton…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The heartbreak of motor racing was on display this weekend in just two races. The obvious was at Pocono Saturday where Kyle Larson was a couple hundred yards away from history. It would have been his fourth straight points race win. Instead a…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Watching the ceremony at the start of Sunday’s Formula One race in Abu Dhabi it hit me: what a shame it would be to see this year’s ceremonial calls for change be reduced to ritual in the future. 2020 has been full of…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. To his fans like me, this seventh World Driver’s Championship for Lewis Hamilton seemed inevitable. Still, his career arc remains incredible. He says there’s more there. Wins in Germany, Portugal and Italy set up Hamilton for a fourth straight in Turkey despite starting…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Six championships. That was hard to imagine for Lewis Hamilton back when he started F1 in 2007. His great times in winter testing were encouraging but six title?! Then he won in Canada and came within one point of his first title in…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The Freaks last week spent a few minutes talking about the 2020 Formula One calendar that includes Hanoi, Vietnam as the third race on the schedule. Those of us of a certain age still can’t separate Hanoi from the divisive realities of the…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Every driver wants to win. It’s the way they’re wired. But team drivers have priorities. The first is beating their teammates. Ferrari had trouble with all of it today in Russia. Apparently the team had a plan for pole sitter Charles LeClerc to…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Lots of drama, competition and strategy in today’s Hungarian Grand Prix. And largest headline might be Ferrari. They were so far from the leaders today that Lewis Hamilton was able to make a pit stop for new tires in the last 20 laps…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I’m more than sick of the apologists who say Max Verstappen is hamstrung because he’s so fast and everyone around him doesn’t know what they’re doing. Verstappen is the Grand Wizard of that club. Sunday in the Brazilian Grand Prix Verstappen took the…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Four-time World Driving Champion Lewis Hamilton scored an important victory in Germany Sunday. It was the first time Hamilton drove through the field from fourteenth to the win. And it was a first Mercedes one-two finish in Germany, the home event for the…
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