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The Art of Racing in the Rain

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Lots of troubling headlines these days but one that got through the darkness this week was word that Patrick Dempsey has broken through a ceiling in making the film The Art of Racing in the Rain. It’s been a passion project for Dempsey…

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Daytona Wreck-a-Palooza

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. You had to see last night’s NASCAR Cup race at Daytona coming from far away. The crashes were wild even for a restrictor plate race. Just as predictable was the finger pointing by drivers taken out in the crashes. Brad Keselowski had the…

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VW Charging Back After Diesel Mess

It was nearly ten years ago that I talked with Monster Tajima about his switch to electric power at Pikes Peak. He was already the King of the Mountain and had been for many years. It was Tajima who first told me that electric power was the mountain’s future and that electric cars would be…

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