This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. While working on the Freakies for the year my mind drifted to Ken Block. We lost him in January and some of us haven’t found a place on our personal shelves yet. He was a large personality and will be missed for some…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Something new this week. After watching Formula One for most of my life, I’ve come to believe the industry is turning into a Clown Show. Let’s set aside the pure farce at Abu Dhabi in 2021 when officials stole an eighth championship from…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Much has been said about the McLaren surge in F1 performance since summer. It was really on display Sunday afternoon at the start of the US Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas. Lead driver Lando Norris jumped off to a big lead…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The Clown Show ignorance in Formula 1 is no longer a surprise. A great season for Max Verstappen earned him his third F1 championship after the Saturday Sprint Race and his 14th win of the season Sunday in Qatar. The race Sunday was…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I’ve come to believe that technology is not high or low but, just, technology. And that includes artificial intelligence that’s becoming more important in things like Formula One and NASCAR. There was a time more than fifteen years ago when Penske Racing was…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. More than 130 years ago a British Lord started the phrase: there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. In this instance, the phrase defines last weekend’s Nielsen numbers that said the NASCAR race had higher television ratings than the F1 race in the…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. There’s talk in the Formula One World that the Las Vegas Grand Prix in November will change the sport forever. I don’t doubt that one bit. Just looking at the ticket packages for the three-day weekend we’re seeing numbers from $1800 to $88,000…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I need to be careful how I say this. First, Mercedes got its first F1 win of the season, a one-two finish with George Russell getting his first career win. Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton was second. But the background says a lot. Hamilton…
NASCAR Driver Tyler Reddick made a rare visit to The Freak Nation Sunday night. The conversation was an excellent look into a winless driver who’s about to explode into Victory Lane and rearrange the place. Reddick’s conversation covered enormous ground from what he dreams about to what makes him giddy when he looks at other…
The Formula One season opens this week in Bahrain. Lots of new stuff. Lots of new headlines, driver lineups, driver dreams and engineering ideas. A welcome headline this week has American Colton Herta getting a test driver deal from McLaren, run by an American Zak Brown. That synergy is the point of disappointment over what’s…
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