Yahoo Sports writer Jay Busbee is becoming a Friend of the Freaks. His background stories on Yahoo Sports will give you more than anyone else in motor racing. For example, Sunday night he talked about the coming changes in NASCAR from the front of the lines on the racetrack, the SAFER barriers that don’t surround…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… It was fun to watch Chad Reed win Saturday night’s Supercross race in Atlanta. Reed won the 2004 and 2008 Supercross titles . He also won the scrum at the start in Atlanta and led all the way to the checkered flag.…
NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Kyle Busch is more than a successful truck series team owner. He’s won three championships as an owner in the Camping World Truck Series. But when he stops by The Freak Nation he talks about things like babymoons, Super Bowl Parties and truck hot tubs. Kyle Bush has fun when he…
2013 NHRA Mello Yello Pro Stock Champion Jason Line came into The Freak Nation once we got the right area code to reach out and touch the Pomona Pro Stock winner. Line was once the new kid on the block. Now he’s facing his kids on the block in the final rounds at NHRA events.…
2014 NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car Champion Matt Hagan opened the 2014 season with a victory at Pomona Sunday. While his crew ate a Mexican dinner Matt came into The Freak Nation to talk about championships and the new house on the old farm he can move into as a title winner. It’s always fun…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… We’re about to lose ourselves in March Madness and Fantasy Pools. That’s where NHRA Top Fuel driver J.R. Todd was last year, in front of the TV in his Indianapolis home when “I get a call and it’s Conrad (Kalitta). He asked…
16-time NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car champion John Force was among the fastest again at the pre-season testing for 2015. Force missed out on his 17th title last year to Matt Hagan. So he starts the new year this weekend in Pomona going back to his roots. His new sponsor is Chevrolet and he’ll be…
Eight-time NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel champion Tony Schumacher will go into the 2015 season as the defending champion in Top Fuel. The category is among the tightest in drag racing. All 16 cars in the field are often running on the same tenth of a second. New names are in the field this year…
NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel driver J.R. Todd was sitting at home watching March Madness last spring when the phone ring. The next 24 hours was an odyssey you wouldn’t believe if you saw it in a film. Todd was out of the sport full-time at the beginning of the season. By the end of…
2012 NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel champion Antron Brown hired a “body man” to get ready for the 2015 Top Fuel season that starts this weekend in Pomona, California. Brown is a former track athlete and thought it proper to get a physical trainer to get him ready to deal with the violence of Top…
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