23 Daytona 500

More Tech! More Tech! More Tech!

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I’m loving all this new technology entering motor racing. At the Daytona 500 this week there was fascination with a new camera that was fractions of millimeters thin. Television flashed to it Sunday to get a real driver’s eye view of the racing…

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2023 Indycar Test

The Golden Chalice is Audience

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Sometimes I just don’t understand the marketing mindset in motorsports. The golden chalice, of course, is audience. NASCAR has been turning over rocks for 20 years looking for more people to look at its motor racing shows. Last year it found one answer…

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2023 Ogier Monte Carlo

Auto Makers Miss Monte Carlo

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. There was a time when car makers promoted two World Rally Championship events in their showrooms to help sell cars. Always remember, car makers want to sell cars more than spend millions winning competition events. There was the East Africa Safari Rally in…

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