This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… We’re often amazed at the close competition in the NHRA’s Pro Stock category. Here’s an example: After qualifying Saturday at Englishtown there was only about a quarter of a second between the top qualifier, Greg Anderson, and the 16th qualifier Val Smeland.…
IMSA/Tudor United SportsCar Championship Daytona Prototype winner Eric Curran made his debut in The Freak Nation Sunday night. Curran and teammate Dane Cameron won the first DP race for Whelen Engineering Saturday. It could be a sign the Whelen program has turned a corner. The team is third in points and is looking strong for…
Seastian Bourdais won the rainy IndyCar race on Detroit’s Belle Isle Sunday. Then he came into The Freak Nation to “brag.” Well not brag. If you know Bourdais you know that’s not in him. But he did talk about the issues of racing in the rain and racing on the Belle Isle concrete track. Is…
One of our original Freaks, Ron Capps, came into The Freak Nation Sunday night as the points leader in the NHRA Me3llo Yello Funny Car category. But, as you can imagine, a funny thing happened on the way to a conversation over points leads. It’s called Heavy Metal, Rock, Head Bangin’ and some Freak time…
USA Today Motorsports writer Jeff Gluck was one of the first to write about what could become an important meeting between NASCAR and a new Drivers Council in the Sprint Cup Series. The meeting happened over the weekend at the casino outside the Dover Speedway where NASCAR raced Saturday and Sunday. There were some surprises…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… One of the things I enjoy more than anything in racing is watching teams get fast. To go from the back of the field to the front takes so much work and the accomplishment is so, so fulfilling. First, in the Red…
Doug Rice is a veteran broadcaster for the Performance Racing Network, PRN. He hosts PRN broadcasts of NASCAR races. But next weekend he’ll do a very rare broadcast double between the Indy 500 where he’ll be a part of the live race broadcast then fly to Charlotte where he’ll host the Coca Cola 600 for…
NHRA Mello Yello Atlanta Funny Car winner Tim Wilkerson is a veteran in drag racing. He’s been close but the win Sunday was his first since 2011. Wait’ll you hear Wilkerson’s candor about being a single car team in a sport that’s going corporate with multi-car efforts. Wilkerson tells us about a conversation he’s had…
2015 Indy 500 Pole winner Scott Dixon is a LONG time Friend of the Freaks. Whenever he visits it’s after some brilliance on a race track somewhere. This time it was being the Top Qualifier for next weekend’s Indy 500. But we talked candidly about problems with the speeds this weekend and the car’s flying…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… I’m completely confused at motor racing these days. For all the talk of safety, it seems that money is in charge of decisions and that’s troubling in the extreme. (LA Times Image) Now I don’t pretend to know all that’s going on…
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