This is the Statt Mann Baby. It's time to Scatt a little bit.

We all chuckled last Monday night when it was discovered NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski had a cell phone in his car and was Tweeting pictures during the two-hour red flag while they cleaned up after the jet truck accident.

Keselowski’s Twitter-verse more than tripled in size from the new followers he gained after FOX broadcast some of the images and talked about the phone in Brad’s car.

Brad says the phone was there for his mother who apparently worries when he has an accident. Quirky but harmless, right?

Well NASCAR rules say a recording device in the car is illegal. And that’s especially at issue with the electronic fuel injection in the car now. Recording devices, even cell phones, can be used to gather data or transfer data wirelessly between the pits and the car, even the car’s electronics. At least that’s possible with the electronic fuel injection.

Now, I don’t think that was Keselowski’s aim by having the phone in the car. Not by a long shot. But that’s the reason why NASCAR doesn’t or shouldn’t want a recording device of any kind in the car these days.

Peace.