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Rusty Wallace on Racers as Athletes & So Much More

2013 NASCAR Hall of Fame Inductee Rusty Wallace made some headlines the last time he was in The Freak Nation. The 1989 NASCAR champion was critical of comments from ESPN commentator Keith Olbermann. Olbermann and Wallace were on opposite sides of the drivers as athletes issue. That was news for a couple minutes. But Sunday…

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The Freaks on The Need for SAFER Barriers

For the second straight race in 2015, NASCAR Sprint Cup star drivers have slammed into a wall during a race and suffered the consequences. At Atlanta Sunday Jeff Gordon and Denny Hamlin careened into a wall that wasn’t protected by SAFER Barriers and had to leave the race. At Daytona the week before Kyle Busch…

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Jay Busbee Gives Us Daytona 500 Background Stories

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…

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