IndyCar iRacing Motegi Winner Simon Pagenaud, last year’s Indy 500 winner, was back in The Freak Nation Sunday night after his second straight win in the IndyCar sim racing circuit. Pagenaud is a longtime Friend of the Freaks. We’ve been with him through sports cars, IndyCars and the acquisition of Norman and his wife Hailey.…
NASCAR iRacing Richmond Winner William Byron was in The Freak Nation Sunday night. The win at Richmond was his second win in a row in the invitational racing. That means he’s The Dude in the virtual stock car world. He loves sim racing and works at it when he’s not involved in his iconic #24…
WWE Star Mandy Rose, or Amanda Rose Saccomanno, was in The Freak Nation Sunday night after WrestleMania36. The match amounted to a battle for Rose’s affection Sunday. Otis took on Dolph Ziggler, a storyline pitched by Rose, herself. In fact, she involved herself in the match when she walked down to ringside and slapped longtime…
NASCAR Driver Garrett Smithley has danced around the NASCAR world from Cup to Xfinity to the truck series to ARCA racing. He stays busy but his experience in the sim world is what’s bringing him recognition while the track racing is shutdown. Does sim success get the attention of team owners? Do sim racing experiences…
IndyCar iRacing Barber Winner Scott McLaughlin visited The Freak Nation from Australia his home country. McLaughlin was scheduled to driver with Roger Penske in 2020 before the global agenda changed radically. McLaughlin Saturday got a squeaky win over Will Power in a virtual race at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham. McLaughlin is a great conversation.…
NASCAR R&D Engineer Eric Jacuzzi is the Senior Director of Aerodynamics at the NASCAR facility. But our main topic of conversation Sunday night centered on what brilliant engineering minds in motor racing could do to help with the COVID-19 global pandemic ripping apart America. What Jacuzzi and The Freaks considered, however, was how fabricators who…
Comedian Frank Caliendo is an iconic star in entertainment. When you get Caliendo on your show you’ve actually booked a dozen ormore personalities. In short, Caliendo is brilliant! He moves from one impersonation to another with so much ease you don’t even perceive what’s going on. The Freaks talked with Caliendo a year ago at…
NASCAR Driver Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. also wears the title World of Outlaws team owner and he wears it with pride. That’s why Stenhouse could talk easilly about a new documentary called For The Love of Dirt about the World of Outlaws Series, one of the most exciting forms of racing in the world of motorsports.…
NASCAR iRacing Texas Winner Timmy Hill stepped into the spotlight with his win Sunday. That made his appearance in The Freak Nation Sunday night even more bright. Hill has considerable racing experience in NASCAR but his win in a virtual race was pretty important for Hill’s career. Listen…
IndyCar iRacing Watkins Glen Winner Sage Karam has been in and out of IndyCar racing for several years but his virtual win at The Glen Saturday may be a door opener to return to the series regularly. Karam dominated in the iRacing world Saturday and in these different times, that may be enough. Listen…
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