This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. It would appear Ford is plugging into the hybrid and electric car business with passion. This week the global carmaker announced plans to invest seven hundred million dollars into an existing Michigan plant to build autonomous and electric vehicles. Ford also announced thirteen…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Motor racing is filled with drivers and teams who paid their bills with illegal money. For example, Don and Bill Whittington, two brothers who raced at Indianapolis, faced drug smuggling charges running a business out of South Florida. According to the government they…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I’m trying to make up my mind on electronic sports or video gaming competition. Nissan has had great success moving drivers from the couch to the race track with its GT Academy partnership with PlayStation. Several Nissan racers have had success at Le…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. There are millions of Americans tonight who feel the events of the week forced the country to take a step back in time. Well it took some digging but there’s a case where we didn’t. In the 50 Anniversary season of the Trans…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Something happened at the Circuit of the Americas TransAm race Saturday. Championship contenders Paul Fix and Amy Ruman were battling early in the sprint race when Fix regularly left the track, all four wheels of his Corvette off the track on the exit…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The Red Bull Global Rallycross series will add competition for all-electric vehicles starting in 2018, two years from now. It’ll be a distinct standalone series separate from the Supercars and GRC Lites currently competing. I love this idea. The GRC is the perfect…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Pay attention to the biggest business headline of the week: ATT has offered more than eighty billion dollars to buy Time Warner. When a distributor buys a content producer it’s massive news. There’s another broadcast story, though, that involves computer generated advertising during…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Some iconic names in the global rally world this week. First, nine-time World Rally Champion Sebastian Loeb scored a break through win in World Rallycross in Latvia. Loeb is the first driver ever to win events in three different FIA World Championships: World…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Long time Friend of the Freaks Tanner Foust won the Red Bull Global Rallycross round in Seattle Saturday. He’s taken over the points lead with two rounds left in Los Angeles in about three weeks. For me, a fan, it’s been a troubling…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Toyota’s tenth Dream Car Art Contest proves the problem motorsports promoters have with the Millenial and younger generations. Vibrant detailed designs and unrestrained imagination were represented in 850,000 plus submissions from youngsters around the world. That’s nearly a million children dreaming about the…
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