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New Season, New Headlines in F1

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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Money, Money, Money

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit… Last week’s Scatt equating Social Media and Michael Andretti’s failure to buy his way into F1 brought some details out of the info swamp. An early rip said the bank that’s financing Sauber and Alfa Romeo Racing was thrown on the table at…

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Electric Jolt for GRC?

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Support this week for electric vehicles in the Red Bull Global Rallycross championship. The series announced plans, or maybe hopes, for the cars starting in 2018.  Now Michael Andretti is on record liking the idea. Andretti Autosport already campaigns in Formula E and…