Last year The Freaks spent more than an hour with maybe the greatest drag racer ever, 16-time Funny Car champion John Force. Force has been a Friend of the Freaks for every one of our 20 years. So this visit was like Old Home Week for all of us. A conversation with John is fun…
NASCAR Team Owner David Gilliland returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night. It was announced this week that Gilliland has formed a new partnership with businessman and former NHRA drag racer Johnny Gray to form David Gilliland Racing. The team will remain based in Mooresville, N.C., competing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, ARCA…
NBC Sports Motorsports Analyst Rutledge Wood returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night to talk about Cruisin’ The Continental U.S. a national road trip with Continental Tire. Wood made the trip with sportscar driver Ryan Eversley in a supercar. And the two just cruised talking with and seeing anyone and anything interesting. Wood said much…
2016 IndyCar Champion Simon Pagenaud, winner of the 2019 Indy 500, is a long time Friend of the Freaks. So Simon’s visit was well accepted and enjoyed. While Pagenaud talked fun in the racing off-season he had some sadness at not being able to spend Christmas at home in Paris for the first time in…
2020 IMSA Endurance Champion Team Owner Wayne Taylor returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night in a chilled mood. Taylor was relaxing while talking with The Freaks about his championship season for Wayne Taylor Racing and for his sons Jordan and Ricky who won titles with other programs. Taylor’s team is going through some changes…
NASCAR Driver Riley Herbst announced this week that he’d spend the 2021 season and beyond with Stewart Haas Racing, one of the most successful programs in stock car racing. Herbst is from a very successful off-road racing family but his move to pavement racing caught some in the family business by surprise. But Riley’s success…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Watching the ceremony at the start of Sunday’s Formula One race in Abu Dhabi it hit me: what a shame it would be to see this year’s ceremonial calls for change be reduced to ritual in the future. 2020 has been full of…
Four-Time NHRA World Champion Don “The Snake” Prudhomme returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night to give The Freaks a peak into his new book “Don Prudhomme, My Life Beyond The 1320.” Prudhomme said telling the stories forced him to reveal parts of his life no one has ever seen. One of the greatest drag…
NASCAR Broadcaster Jamie Little has spent the last 20 years breaking through glass ceilings opening doors for women to follow her into motor racing. But Jamie is a long-time Friend of the Freaks so her visit was welcome and a long time coming. She’s breaking through another barrier in 2021 when she takes over the…
2020 NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car Champion Doug Gordon visited The Freak Nation Sunday night to talk about his championship captured in the midst of a pandemic that shut down 2020 motor racing for months. The Lucas Oil driver Gordon lives in one of America’s garden spots in the California Central Coast Wine Region. Still…
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