This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Support this week for electric vehicles in the Red Bull Global Rallycross championship. The series announced plans, or maybe hopes, for the cars starting in 2018. Now Michael Andretti is on record liking the idea. Andretti Autosport already campaigns in Formula E and…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I heard one of the dumbest ideas for NASCAR this week. Andrew Murstein, co-owner of Richard Petty Motorsports, threw out the idea of a spending cap to level the playing field in the sport. Among other things he said it would increase fan…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. More evidence that motor racing can’t escape larger world headlines. Porsche this week said it’s leaving the World Endurance Championship at the end of this year. Reports said Porsche was spending more than $200 million annually on its highly successful Prototype program. That…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. IMSA racing on Saturdays is pretty common. But whenever IMSA races at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut, as it did this week, a Saturday race is sort of mandatory. More than fifty years ago homeowners surrounding the track won some regulations that banned…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Like many things in life the concept of “class” is pretty difficult to define but you know it when you see it. The Red Bull Global Rallycross Series made its first visit to the Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis this weekend. Scott Speed…
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…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Seventeen years to the day is incredible. SpeedFreaks has seen and experienced so much change in motor sports since 2000. We’ve seen Honda go from Sport Compact drag racing to F1 with wins in the Indy 500. F1 is no longer an expensive…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The most beautiful thing about athletic competition is the competition itself. We loved it when the Golden State Warriors dominated the NBA on their way to a title this year. The same for the New England Patriots who fought back from more than…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Huge fun this weekend at the Southern Ohio Forest Rally. I went to visit friends and one put me to work! I found myself hosting some events including the Special Stage at the end of the event on the Ross County Fairgrounds outside…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The opening weekend at Global Rallycross Memphis this weekend may have revealed more than the organizers wanted to. Scott Speed and Tanner Foust were one and two on the weekend and dominated in their new Andretti Autosport Volkswagens. But, in effect, there were…
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