This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Some curiosities from Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka won by points leader Lewis Hamilton. The win over Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg moves Hamilton to a 48 point lead with five races left in the season. That includes the US Grand Prix at…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The BBC this week posted a story that said Volkswagen is close to a deal to take over the Red Bull F1 team. Red Bull has consistently denied the story. Red Bull has hit on hard times the past two years after four…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… If you’re listening to SpeedFreaks you’re probably aware of the Jeremy Clarkson/Top Gear story. Clarkson’s an older guy who let his arrogance get the best of him leading to some bad decisions. He was sacked and the world’s most popular television show,…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… Some mixed emotions this week. First the elation of seeing Jari-Matti Latvala get his first World Rally championship win on asphalt. He’d looked at it as a skill that had eluded his driver’s tool box. But not anymore. The above photo is…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… Sunday’s Formula One race from Hungary produced great headlines going into the summer break. The largest, of course, was the brilliant drive to victory from Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo. In the last five laps he passed two former F1 champions on the…
Former F1 driver Scott Speed has made a big jump in his career. A break from NASCAR wound up in a Brazilian jungle where Speed won the first round of the 2013 Global Rallycross Championship. That allowed him to remove something from his personal Bucket List: winning an X Games Gold Medal. So will Scott…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. It’s time to Scatt a little bit. It’s not often you get a chance to talk with a Formula One veteran like Nick Heidfeld. So when it came, I took it Friday in Long Beach. Heidfeld scored more than 250 points in an excellent F1 career, podiums, but no…
When Sebastien Bourdais was the hottest, he ripped off four consecutive ChampCar championships in American open-wheel. After a stint in F1 he’s fighting to get back to that championship form, racing full time in IndyCar and Grand-Am this weekend at the Rolex 24. But what we enjoy most about Bourdais is his candor. He’ll answer…
IndyCar veteran Tony Kanaan put together a special Brazilian team to run the Rolex 24 this weekend. The Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Brazil team has veteran drivers including Kanaan and former F1 star Rubens Barrichello, but it also has some new crew people who are just learning the rigors of international sports car racing. But…
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