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Smile The Next Time You Hear Thunder

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. We’ve met some legends in the past 20 years of Freak. One of the largest: track announcer Bruce Flanders, the voice of the Long Beach Grand Prix for forty plus years. Bruce died this week. A respiratory ailment. He died at home. He…

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A Giovanni in Stock Cars is Great!

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Many memories in twenty years of Freak-dom. One is meeting Gary Scelzi one night outside his motorhome. He was grilling for all comers and that included The Freaks. So, Scelzi fed me and that’s not forgotten easily. But there’s another reason not to…

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F1 Looking Through The Covid Glass

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Formula One this week said it wasn’t bringing races to the Americas this season. That means events in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Brazil were done for this pandemic year. In fact, the F1 paddock expressed some concern about coming to America…

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