NHRA Drag Racing Champions Ron Capps and Gary Scelzi Share Memories with The Statt Mann and The Freaks. Ron Capps won the NHRA Funny Car championship in 2016, 2021 and 2022, the last coming in his first year as a team owner. Scelzi went on to win three Top Fuel championships. Scelzi unseated the John…
2024 NHRA Top Fuel Champion Antron Brown won his fourth championship Sunday night. Then he talked with The Freak Nation a couple days later after he’d had time to think about the historic title. Brown is now ahead of NHRA legends Don Garlits, Shirley Muldowney, Larry Dixon, Gary Scekzi and, even, his teammate Angelle Sampey…
Eight-Time NHRA Top Fuel Champion Tony Schumacher. Schumacher won his first NHRA Top Fuel world championship in 1999 and his eighth in 2014. He won the title six years in a row from 2004 to 2009. Now, though, he’s 12th in points and not qualified for the 2024 title. Schumacher has a different conversation after…
European Top Fuel Champion Ida Zetterstrom talked with Kenny and Crash in St. Louis. She’s getting her feet wet in America’s NHRA series and campaigning to be the NHRA 2024 Rookie of the Year before she makes a run at a title next year. Zetterström won her European and FIA Top Fuel title in 2023.…
Three-time NHRA FC Champion Ron Capps came into The Freak Nation Sunday night. Capps won his championships in 2016, 2021 and 2022. That last title came when Capps was in his first year as a team owner, a very rare accomplishment. But Capps isn’t having that championship kind of season in 2024. His crew chiefs…
NHRA Top Fuel Driver Leah Pruett told the Freaks eleven months ago she was fighting to change NHRA rules concerning female drivers starting a family. Pruett and a coalition of women NHRA racers fought for an amendment to NHRA rules. Pruett was a career-best third in 2023 but opted to start a family with husband…
Six-Time NHRA Pro Stock Champion Erica Enders spent time this week with Kenny and Crash. Erica is third in the standings 90 points behind leader Dallas Glenn. Enders is the most successful female Pro Stock driver in NHRA history with titles in 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023. She’ll have to battle though to…
Drivers in all racing series are watching what Formula One is doing about drivers who use profanity over their in-car radios. F1 drivers could be penalized heavily. And NHRA drivers were concerned about the same thing happening as they’re being interviewed before their races by network anchors calling the competition. The Freaks talked with Erica…
NHRA Charlotte Top Fuel Winner Antron Brown followed up his win in Reading, Pennsylvania last weekend. The win gives him a 53-point advantage over Justin Ashley in second with four events remaining in the 2024 season. This is his first time in first place this late in the season since 2017. He won his championships…
This 2006 Flashback with Kenny & Brandon Bernstein. The six-time NHRA champion Kenny Bernstein has two in Top Fuel and four consecutive in Funny Car. Bernstein holds the unique distinction of being the first and only race team owner to have collected wins in each of America’s three major motorsports series: NHRA, NASCAR and CART.…
Studios | Sunday 7 – 9 PST