This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. First a disclaimer: I love IMSA sports car racing. But with that said, I can see some thinning of the herd in IMSA. A new tire sponsor coming in 2019 will probably raise costs sending more teams to less expensive sports car programs…
IMSA GTD VIR Winner Corey Lewis got his first GTD win Sunday at Virginia International Raceway. He’s been fighting the field with his Lamborghini Huracan but it wasn’t until today that Lewis could take his Lambo to victory lane. GTD is highly competitive with factory supported cars, teams and drivers. Lewis is ready to stand…
When Pipo Derani and Johannes Van Overbeek won at Road America Sunday,m the man with the biggest smile was Scott Sharp who owned the car they were driving. The win is being called a breakthrough for the Extreme Speed Motorsports Nissan prototype. The team started the year with a string of problems that appeared to…
IMSA GTD Lime Rock Winner Patrick Lindsey spent time with The Freaks Sunday night extolling the virtues of tiny Lime Rock Park, the shortest track the IMSA series runs on. He talked about the strangeness of car set up for the track as well as the fun of competing there. He also took some time…
IMSA Watkins Glen Winner Joao Barbosa made the pass for the win with nine minutes left after nearly six hours of racing. The Watkins Glen Six Hour on sthe 4th of July Holiday Weekend was special for Barbosa and his Action Express Team including co-drivers Christian Fittipaldi and Felipe Albuquerque. The win stopped and incredible…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The NASCAR Cup series was a shining light this week. Saturday night at Daytona the end of the race found new names competing wheel to wheel for the win. It wasn’t a situation where the big names like Harvick or Johnson or Busch…
IMSA WeatherTech COTA Winner Jordan Taylor is dominating the 2017 season with his brother Ricky. They started winning at the Rolex 24 in Daytona and haven’t stopped. The latest win at Circuit of the Americas last week was a walkover. They were more than a minutes up on the field in the last hour. But…
IMSA Sebring 12 Hour Winner Ricky Taylor is a Friend of the Freaks so when he comes into The Freak Nation after a win we listen and, even, give him some business because he takes it so well. Taylor, along with his brother Jordan Taylor and teammate Alexander Lynn, got the win, the second in…
2016 Rolex 24 Winner Scott Sharp was a driver and owner of the winning team a year ago at the Daytona 24 hour race. That was before his Extreme Speed Motorsports team disappeared into the high and mighty atmosphere at the World Endurance Championship. ESM had success there was in 2017 the team is returning…
Michael Shank Racing Driver Jeff Segal is a two-time sports car GT champion and a class winner at the Rolelx 24. He’s part of the new MSR program bringing the Acura NSX GT3 on line in the IMSA Weathertech Series starting at the Rolex 24 at the end of this month. Segal was returning home…
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