NASCAR/IndyCar/Rallycross Team Owner Chip Ganassi had a wild weekend flying all over the U.S. He watched his new rallycross driver get a medal in the X Games Saturday afternoon in Austin. Saturday night he was in Fort Worth watching his IndyCar team finish first and second at Texas Motor Speedway. Then he flew overnight to…
NHRA Mello Yello Englishtown Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan had a great weekend on one of the legendary tracks in drag racing. But leave it to the Freaks. We had him talking about moving into his new house and the hay that needs tending down on the farm. That and the baseball pitching that’s fallen…
X Games Off-Road Racing Gold Medal Winner Sheldon Creed dropped by the Freak Nation Sunday night to bring his teenaged perspective on mentor Robby Gordon and winning an X Games medal. Creed races Stadium Super Trucks with Robby Gordon. He’s tried NASCAR but doesn’t like the pavement as much as he likes the dirt and…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… We’re often amazed at the close competition in the NHRA’s Pro Stock category. Here’s an example: After qualifying Saturday at Englishtown there was only about a quarter of a second between the top qualifier, Greg Anderson, and the 16th qualifier Val Smeland.…
IMSA/Tudor United SportsCar Championship Daytona Prototype winner Eric Curran made his debut in The Freak Nation Sunday night. Curran and teammate Dane Cameron won the first DP race for Whelen Engineering Saturday. It could be a sign the Whelen program has turned a corner. The team is third in points and is looking strong for…
Seastian Bourdais won the rainy IndyCar race on Detroit’s Belle Isle Sunday. Then he came into The Freak Nation to “brag.” Well not brag. If you know Bourdais you know that’s not in him. But he did talk about the issues of racing in the rain and racing on the Belle Isle concrete track. Is…
One of our original Freaks, Ron Capps, came into The Freak Nation Sunday night as the points leader in the NHRA Me3llo Yello Funny Car category. But, as you can imagine, a funny thing happened on the way to a conversation over points leads. It’s called Heavy Metal, Rock, Head Bangin’ and some Freak time…
USA Today Motorsports writer Jeff Gluck was one of the first to write about what could become an important meeting between NASCAR and a new Drivers Council in the Sprint Cup Series. The meeting happened over the weekend at the casino outside the Dover Speedway where NASCAR raced Saturday and Sunday. There were some surprises…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… One of the things I enjoy more than anything in racing is watching teams get fast. To go from the back of the field to the front takes so much work and the accomplishment is so, so fulfilling. First, in the Red…
Doug Rice is a veteran broadcaster for the Performance Racing Network, PRN. He hosts PRN broadcasts of NASCAR races. But next weekend he’ll do a very rare broadcast double between the Indy 500 where he’ll be a part of the live race broadcast then fly to Charlotte where he’ll host the Coca Cola 600 for…
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