This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. This afternoon I stumbled onto a Nitro Rallycross show on NBC Sports. It was truly a show aimed at a specific audience like all good television. Nitro Rallycross is a dream of Travis Pastrana who helped build himself and Nitro Circus into successful…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Apparently, the bump and grind of rallycross translates to the Extreme E series. Kevin Hansen and Molly Taylor this week won the Desert X Prix in Saudi Arabia. Hansen comes from a generations long line of rallycross winners. His Dad Kenneth Hansen won…
Americas Rallycross 2 Driver Gray Leadbetter is only 14 but she’s learning a lot ab out motor racing and driving from her mentor and coach Buddy Rice. In fact, Gray called Rice a second father, she spends so much time with him learning how to compete on a track. It’s helping, though. Leadbetter is learning…
Americas Rallycross Texas Winner Tanner Foust interrupted dinner Sunday night to talk with The Freaks. It’d been a while since Foust was in The Freak Nation and we had a lot to catch up on including his potential Americas Rallycross Championship decider next weekend at Mid-Ohio. He’s the points leader and favorite to win the…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I was super pumped Friday at the introduction of all-electric rallycross machines. IMG promotes the World Rallycross Championship and next year it will introduce a support series called Projekt E. The new car is a collaboration between IMG and an Austrian R&D shop.…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Really bad news for a Friend of the Freaks. American rallycross champion driver Scott Speed is recovering in a Salt Lake City Hospital after a terrible accident Friday at a Nitro Circus Rallycross event at the Utah Motorsports Campus. Early Saturday Scott told…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Nine time World Rally Champion Sebastian Loeb won his second World Rallycross event Sunday in Belgium. The word rally might be the only thing the two disciplines have in common and Loeb is finding that out. Rallying on closed sections of public roads…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I talked about this a year ago and this week it appears to be a reality. The Global Rallycross Championship has canceled its 2018 season. A cloud of uncertainty has fallen over GRC for now. A lengthy, well reported piece in Jalopnik this…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. World Rallycross fans here in America were pleased to learn the series would make its maiden voyage to the U.S. at Circuit of the Americas next season. Coming to America is important for all sponsors and automakers in the championship. But the schedule…
2017 Global Rallycross Champion Scott Speed interrupted his family night at Disneyland to talk with The Freaks Sunday night. Speed is a former F1 and NASCAR driver who’s found a home with his third GRC title. Speed races for Andretti Autosport but he is happy to not be in IndyCar, Michael Andretti’s main business. Speed…
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