This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Before Saturday night’s race on the Charlotte Roval they called it a street course on steroids. It was that and more. Normally I like to see drivers stretched to their limits. Drivers should be able to drive on any kind of track in…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. If you’re a regular here you know I love Formula Drift and the business-like way the founders run the series. The Covid issues this year forced Ryan Sage and Jim Liaw to make some changes in the event format. This weekend was the…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Way back in the middle ‘80s, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I read a wonderful book “Sports Illusion, Sports Reality” by Leonard Koppett. He rightly argued that fan interest waned and even disappeared unless promoters created the illusion that it mattered who won…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Six-time World Driving Champion Lewis Hamilton won Sunday at the Tuscan Grand Prix in Italy. Post race he wore a t-shirt supporting Breonna Taylor while he talked with media. Hamilton’s anti-racism efforts have been strong. This week he showed another interest launching X44,…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Years ago, I heard of a Scandinavian medical study that looked at the inner ear balance in world class rally drivers. The study said the best usually had more inner ear fila that allowed them to feel balance in the car that much…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Lots of drama in Sunday’s Indy 500. Takuma Sato the winner over Scott Dixon and Graham Rahal. Sato is the 20th to win a second 500, the first in 2017. But what I’ll take away from this is what Arrow Electronics revealed during…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. We’ve met some legends in the past 20 years of Freak. One of the largest: track announcer Bruce Flanders, the voice of the Long Beach Grand Prix for forty plus years. Bruce died this week. A respiratory ailment. He died at home. He…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Many memories in twenty years of Freak-dom. One is meeting Gary Scelzi one night outside his motorhome. He was grilling for all comers and that included The Freaks. So, Scelzi fed me and that’s not forgotten easily. But there’s another reason not to…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Formula One this week said it wasn’t bringing races to the Americas this season. That means events in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Brazil were done for this pandemic year. In fact, the F1 paddock expressed some concern about coming to America…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I’ve known for a while that I can be a complete dinosaur about many things motor racing. And that includes one of my loves: performance rallying. The American Rally Association re-launched its season this weekend after a five-month hiatus waiting out the pandemic.…
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