IndyCar Birmingham Winner Pato O’Ward returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night within hours of his win at Barber Motorsports Park. It was O’Ward’s first win of the season. He talked with Kenny Sargent about a number of issues including his decision to more up from his mid-pack racing early in the season. He also…
NASCAR Xfinity Team Owner Jordan Anderson & Driver Myatt Snider made their debut in The Freak Nation Sunday night. Their conversation was all over the map. Snider, the son of broadcaster Marty Snider, and Anderson are friends in addition to their employee/employer relationship. Jordan Anderson Racing Bommarito Autosport is growing in performance and results. Listen…
Legendary NASCAR Team Owner Jack Roush turned 80 on April 19th. Roush is one of the great names in several kinds of racing from drag racing to NASCAR. He’s competed for championships in each. But Jack can be a championship story teller when he comes into The Freak Nation. His stories in this Freakin’ Flashback…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. It’s been a week since NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin criticized fellow racer Kyle Larson by posting an ugly Asian stereotype on Social Media. NASCAR ordered Hamlin take racial sensitivity courses as a result. What’s happening inside the stock car racing industry? NASCAR continues…
NASCAR Xfinity Driver Jeffrey Earnhardt finished second Saturday at Talladega. But the presence of Dale Earnhardt’s grandson racing with Dale Earnhardt’s Crew Chief lit a fire under Social Media over the weekend. You’d have thought Earnhardt won the race instead of Noah Gragson. Still, the conversation with Jeffrey was wonderful especially listening to his radio…
NASCAR Xfinity Driver AJ Allmendinger ran third in the Xfinity race Saturday. Shortly after the Checkered Flag fell, AJ was talking with Kenny Sargent about a host of things including scary hatreds, running out of gas and Kaulig Racing’s success this season. IN other words, it was a normal conversation with one of The Freaks…
ARCA Talladega Race Winner Nick Sanchez, a 20-year-old from Miami, won the second ARCA race of his career this weekend. And, like most ARCA drivers, he came into The Freak Nation with a completely wonderful conversation including a line we’ll never forget about racing at Talladega: “You don’t know how fast you’re going until you…
NASCAR Cup Driver Erik Jones came within a few yards of winning the Cup race Sunday at Talladega. It must have been disappointing in the extreme but The Freaks talked with Jones before the race. And his personality set the conversation on fire. Especially the part about reading books to elementary school kids in his…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The diversity in NHRA drag racing ALWAYS stuns me. And I’ve been watching it for far more than a decade. Men. Women. Young. Old. Black. White. Brown. Asian. They all win and win championships. The latest into that salad is Pro Stock driver…
Lucas Oil Stabilizer Monster Truck Driver Cynthia Gauthier returned to The Freak Nation as she packed to catch an airline flight. Gauthier was in Indianapolis for a Monster Truck show in Lucas Oil Stadium. She had a great smile on her face as she remembered some giveaways to small children at the pre-event autograph session.…
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