Acura Motorsports Team members Oz Negri, Andy Lally, Katherine Legge and Jeff Segal were all in The Freak Nation Sunday night and, if you believe the conversation, this might be the closest team in American sports car racing. Negri, Lally, Legge and Segal all bring championship resumes to the Acura program. But better than that,…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Something happened at the Circuit of the Americas TransAm race Saturday. Championship contenders Paul Fix and Amy Ruman were battling early in the sprint race when Fix regularly left the track, all four wheels of his Corvette off the track on the exit…
NASCAR Sprint Cup Martinsville Winner Jimmie Johnson brought his six Cup championships into The Freak Nation Sunday night. His win at Martinsville advances him into the NASCAR Chase for the Championship Final Four at Homestead November 20th. Johnson will be going for his seventh title. ONly two others, Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt, Sr., have…
NHRA Las Vegas Funny Car Winner John Force has won 16 championships the last coming in 2013 at the age of 64. Force’s win Sunday in Las Vegas came at the expense of his daughter Courtney. His legendary excellence has been the subject of doctors who want to know why a man his age can…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The Red Bull Global Rallycross series will add competition for all-electric vehicles starting in 2018, two years from now. It’ll be a distinct standalone series separate from the Supercars and GRC Lites currently competing. I love this idea. The GRC is the perfect…
Three-Time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Champion Angelle Sampey returned to The Freak Nation after a LONG absence Sunday night. Sampey won the PSM championships in 2000, 2001 and 2002 long before her five-year-old daughter Ava was born. She was candid with The Freaks about returning to competition after retiring because Ava was getting old enough…
Formula One’s annual visit to America at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas ended Sunday with a reported successful promotion. There were reports Sunday that some 250,000 people attended the race weekend including 80,000 at a Taylor Swift concert Saturday night. These numbers are critical. Attendance fell last year for several reasons including rainy…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Pay attention to the biggest business headline of the week: ATT has offered more than eighty billion dollars to buy Time Warner. When a distributor buys a content producer it’s massive news. There’s another broadcast story, though, that involves computer generated advertising during…
NASCAR Sprint Cup Driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. has been a Friend of The Freaks for maybe fifteen years. He’s a Freak OG! So it’s difficult to hear he’s out of the car suffering from concussion symptoms connected to racing. We’ve had fun sharing moments with Dale, Jr. on and off the microphone. He’s as candid…
Motorsports legend Bobby Unser, one of ten to win the Indy 550 at least three times, is a Friend of the Freaks. He’s always welcome to bring his Indy wins from 1968, 1975 and 1981 into The Freak Nation. He’s also a perfect person to talk about racing today versus racing when he was building…
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