This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Saturday night at Irwindale Speedway in Southern California I hosted about 25 boys and girls and nearly ten more parents, most watching their first motor racing evening. The picture included here has some of the kids listening intently at Legends driver Darren Amidon…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The World Rallycross Championship this week announced a deal with Ford to put complete races and more programming on Ford’s own live distribution channel on Facebook. World Rallycross opened its fourth season this weekend in Barcelona where last year’s champion Mattias Ekstrom won…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. An undercurrent in modern sports is the idea that some of the best athletes are savants in their field of specialty. There’s even an argument that year ’round travel squads lead to repetitive stress injuries like Little Leaguers who pitch all year until…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. My mind wandered a bit watching the Sebring 12 Hours Saturday. Sebring isn’t as mind numbing as Daytona or Le Mans. The track is rough and unpredictable producing racing that’s rough and unpredictable. One great thing about Sebring is its ability to prepare…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Great to see IndyCar back racing in St. Petersburg Sunday. Even greater to watch Dale Coyne Racing win with Sebastien Bourdais. IndyCar is having trouble keeping teams on the grid. One of the strongest, KVH, shut the doors and went home in the…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I’ll never understand the Autograph World. Years ago I worked with pro basketball legend Bill Russell, notorious for not signing autographs. And there was one afternoon when a youngster approached in downtown Los Angeles and asked for his signature. Bill took several moments…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I always look for ways to pat NASCAR on the back for good decisions and plans. An announcement this week to update its concussion protocol is an excellent step in the right direction and long needed. For months the Freaks have said concussion…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I try not to get emotionally involved with drivers in motor sports. But I am human and several are special to me. One of those is Finnish driver Jari-Matti Latvala who won Rally Sweden this weekend in only the second event of Toyota’s…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Saturday night I was watching Supercross in Anaheim, watching Ryan Dungey run away with his first win if the young season. And it came to mind that Feld Entertainment and Supercross have cornered the market on an audience that NASCAR is drooling over,…
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