This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Word of Kasey Kahne’s desire to end his full-time NASCAR career took me back a few years. Kahne was an unknown talent when he was a guest at a SpeedFreaks party at Irwindale Speedway one Saturday night maybe 15 years ago. He was…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. There’s a trend here worth noting. NASCAR has had 39 drivers win at least one of its 68 championships through last season. Of those 39 drivers, only seven have been 40 or older. The oldest? 45-year-old Bobby Allison, leader of the Alabama Gang,…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I had questions this week when I saw a Top Ten survey that put Watkins Glen on top for NASCAR racing. Watkins Glen is a road course and NASCAR makes its bones on oval racing tracks. I thought it was curious that NASCAR’s…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. You had to see last night’s NASCAR Cup race at Daytona coming from far away. The crashes were wild even for a restrictor plate race. Just as predictable was the finger pointing by drivers taken out in the crashes. Brad Keselowski had the…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Nine time World Rally Champion Sebastian Loeb won his second World Rallycross event Sunday in Belgium. The word rally might be the only thing the two disciplines have in common and Loeb is finding that out. Rallying on closed sections of public roads…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The Freaks are used to talking about races involving 600, 700, a thousand or, even, ten thousand horsepower. But Saturday I saw a one horsepower race that would Justify your attention to it. Justify won the 144th Kentucky Derby with strength that reminded…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I talked about this a year ago and this week it appears to be a reality. The Global Rallycross Championship has canceled its 2018 season. A cloud of uncertainty has fallen over GRC for now. A lengthy, well reported piece in Jalopnik this…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. For years, drivers have said there’s a comparison between driving a Formula One car and a Le Mans Prototype from the World Endurance Championship. I found it hard to believe. The F1 car is minimalist with aerodynamic aids to, quite literally, keep the…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Liberty Media continues its dumbing down of F1. The latest is a projected budget cap of $150 million for all teams. The current Concorde Agreements which govern Formula One racing are set to expire at the end of the 2020 season. Liberty is…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. This year’s ESPN Formula One telecasts aren’t just different from those on NBC. The first one Saturday night was a giant step backwards. ESPN took the races from NBC this season and, instead of doing their own show using the international feed from…
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