This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. First of all, this isn’t a movie review. The last time I reviewed a movie I told the truth and was never invited back to review another one. I paid to go see Ford vs. Ferrari on Friday at noon. For me, it…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. So Roger Penske bought everything IndyCar. The announcement came this week proving it is possible to keep a secret in modern media. But we’re told the actual deal doesn’t become official until January. The largest headline, though, might be what wasn’t announced: the…
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 don’t talk a lot about drifting in our 20th year but there is some news going on in that world. Irish driver James Deane is the Formula Drift champion for an unprecedented third straight year. He joined the series in 2017…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. My mind was bumping around this weekend. The fight after the NASCAR Xfinity race amused me. When they fight in a stick and ball game we complain about the thugs in those sports. When they fight after a NASCAR race the drivers are…
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. Part of the SpeedFreaks history includes Formula Drift. In fact all three of us happened to be at the back of an SUV when Formula D co-founder James Liaw explained to us how he was going to start a series like none other…
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. For a lark I asked Google for NASCAR headlines from September, 2005; fourteen years ago. The lead story from Fortune Magazine was telling. Remember Nextel Cup? The Allstate 400 at the Brickyard? $740 million, ten-year sponsorships? At the time NASCAR officials were puffing…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I was super pumped Friday at the introduction of all-electric rallycross machines. IMG promotes the World Rallycross Championship and next year it will introduce a support series called Projekt E. The new car is a collaboration between IMG and an Austrian R&D shop.…
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