This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. A report this week said Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas lost some twenty million dollars in state support for the Formula One race last fall. The Austin American Statesman newspaper said COTA failed to submit a required human trafficking prevention plan…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. NASCAR brags that it’s Super Bowl, the Daytona 500, opens the season. That pride, though, should be tempered with some embarrassment. The inexperienced shouldn’t be allowed to run in the biggest race of the year. There needs to be a commitment to upgrade…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. In a world where sponsorships are coveted like your next breath, we’re told it was a simple phone call that brought IndyCar its next series partner. An executive at Chip Ganassi Racing had been working with NTT Data, a Japanese corporation, when he…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. You wonder what’s going on at NASCAR. A report this week said dozens of employees were let go. Sports Business Journal said the layoffs amounted to less than five percent of NASCAR’s workforce. Unless you’re one of the “dozens,” this may not be…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. For more than a decade I was a complete fan of the sport rallycross. I loved the short races, the high horsepower cars, the pavement and dirt tracks and the drivers who could navigate all of it. Early on, though, I noticed that…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. It’s the end the year and most of the country is buttoning down for winter. So you have to wonder if the NASA 25 Hour is a race at the end of the 2018 season or an event opening the 2019 motor racing…
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. For years I’ve argued that motor racing began suffering when factory budgets strayed from research and development to marketing. Engineers weren’t trying to learn things for your driveway. Instead, pencil pushers were trying to learn things to put in your kitchen or closet.…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. It’s amazing how championships can come together in motor racing. Last year Sebastien Ogier won the title with only two wins in 13 events all over the world. It was his fifth title all won consecutively from 2013. This weekend Ogier won his…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. It was an empowering week for women everywhere. And that includes 17-year-old Hailie Deegan who became the first woman to win a NASCAR K&N Pro Series Race last night in Idaho. She only led one lap at Meridian Speedway but it was the…
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