IndyCar Barber Winner Takuma Sato was back in The Freak Nation Sunday night after a popular win Sunday afternoon. Sato drives for Rahal, Letterman Lanigan Racing and his win came in front of one of his bosses, David Letterman, the former talkshow host. Will Sato have to expect Letterman at the races now to take…
The Freaks took us back 15 years to 2004 and a ear-opening interview with Rick Mears. Mears won in off-road before he went to open-wheel racing. Did off-road help as it appears to have helped Jimmie Johnson in NASCAR? And what about Mears testing in Formula One? Could he have won there? Rick Mears is…
IndyCar COTA Winner Colton Herta came into The Freak Nation Sunday night as the youngest winner in IndyCar history. Colton was only 18 when he won at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. He’s the son of former IndyCar winner Bryan Herta but, soon, Bryan’s identity might end up more as Colton’s Dad.…
IndyCar Driver Jack Harvey of Michael Shank Racing is passionate about racing and an old truck he wants to restore any time soon. He talked about both Sunday night along with the Circuit of the Americans track where IndyCar will race for the first time next weekend. And what about the combo weekends The Freaks…
IndyCar St. Petersburg Winner Josef Newgarden started the 2019 season off right coming into The Freak Nation. He was ready for the season after some time off. He talked about the IndyCar schedule, the pace of the season and the year-long preparation for the Indy 500 in May. Newgarden won the IndyCar title in 2017…
Four-Time CART Champion Sebastian Bourdais is a long-time Friend of the Freaks. He’s getting ready to start the IndyCar season in St. Petersburg where he’s won the last two races. Bourdais is sixth on the all-time IndyCar wins list. But many of those wins came early in his career. They’re coming harder now and Bourdais…
1990 & 1994 CART Champion Al Unser, Jr. visited The Freak Nation Sunday night to talk about his expanding role with Harding Steinbrenner Racing which will field an IndyCar team this year for 18-year-old Colton Herta. George Steinbrenner, the grandson of the late Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, is only 22 and could be considered a…
IndyCar Driver Graham Rahal has been coming into The Freak Nation for more than a decade. So when we talked with him Sunday night it was like talking with an old friend. Rahal was at pre-season testing at Weathertech Raceway, the old Laguna Seca, in Northern California. He’s eager to get the 2019 season underway…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. In a world where sponsorships are coveted like your next breath, we’re told it was a simple phone call that brought IndyCar its next series partner. An executive at Chip Ganassi Racing had been working with NTT Data, a Japanese corporation, when he…
IndyCar CEO Mark Miles was in The Freak Nation Sunday night to give The Freaks a State of IndyCar conversation. That includes the latest on IndyCar’s new series partner, NTT Data. that sponsorship will open in 2019 and was put together all within three months of talks. Miles also gave The Freaks some background on…
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