This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I’ve done nearly a thousand of these about things all over the motorsports map. Maybe I’ll give my alter ego a shot at one… Chickened out did you? What’s so hard about one of the biggest IMSA headlines this week? Hyundai may put…
IndyCar & IMSA Insider Marshall Pruett returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night. Very little happens in American Open Wheel or sports car racing without Pruett knowing what’s behind the headline. He talked with The Freaks about IndyCar controversies and how they might be avoided going forward. He also talked about rewriting the rules to…
IMSA Long Beach Winner Ringer van der Zande talked with Crash Gladys Sunday. His win Saturday came with Sebastian Bourdais who was unavailable to talk on Sunday because of some coaching duties in Long Beach. Sunday’s win with Scott Dixon, in fact, allowed Ganassi Racing to double up on the victories in Long Beach. Renger…
2024 Rolex 24 Top Qualifier Pipo Derani led a parade of nine GTP teams that beat the Daytona 24 Hour track record during Sunday’s qualifying. Derani drives a Cadillac prototype for Action Express Racing in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and is an overall winner of the 2016 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona and the 2016,…
2023 IMSA TCR Champion Robert Wickens returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night. Wickens suffered spinal injuries in an IndyCar crash five years ago, injuries that left him paralyzed from the waist down. The 33-year-old suffered spinal cord injuries when his car was launched into a barrier at the start of the IndyCar race at…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Watching Cadillac win the IMSA GTP Championship Saturday night took me back to earlier days when Cadillac was winning in World Challenge. More important, why participation fits corporate goals like selling cars to you and me. Cadillac didn’t win at Petit. That went…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Some notes from watching racing this weekend. I was ready to congratulate IMSA Sunday for a series of promotional videos without any crashes to sell to the television audience. Then the race started and the field tried to get through turn one at…
2023 Rolex 24 Winner Colin Braun came into The Freak Nation Sunday night after his fourth win in the iconic race. This time he won overall with three other drivers including Tom Bloomquist, Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud, all part of the Meyer Shank Racing Team. They won in an incredibly fast Acura GTP Prototype.…
2023 Rolex 24 Pole Sitter Tom Blomquist came into The Freak Nation Sunday minutes after his fastest qualifying lap at Daytona International Speedway. Blomquist, did the lap in a Michael Shank Racing Acura GTP race car. It’s one of the newest GTP racers, the highly sophisticated race machines in IMSA, a rolling computer that will…
2021 IMSA DPi Champion Pipo Derani returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night. He can’t defend his 2021 championship this season but he’s about to run in the IMSA season finale next weekend, the Petit LeMans. Derani was jus named a factory driver for Cadillac an he’s spent much of 2022 testing and preparing for…
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