NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Phoenix Funny Car winner Alexis DeJoria had special encouragement to get her first funny car win Sunday in Phoenix. DeJoria visited with Kenny and Crash before the event but her close encounter with the newest Freak, Henley, gave her the mojo to beat three drag racing champions to get her…
NHRA Funny Car driver was a Friend of the Freaks before there was a Freak Nation. He’s been around that long. That’s why we love to have him visit and we get into conversations that go anywhere. Sunday night we went to everything from diapers that explode to Michael Waltrip and pizza to driving against…
USA Today Motorsports writer Jeff Gluck never pulls punches when he comes into The Freak Nation and Sunday night was no different. The Freaks hit him with some delicate issues like whether or not NASCAR would “fix” the qualifying to allow rookie Austin Dillon, in the #3 of Richard Childress, to win the pole position…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… Friends often try to humor me when I tell them that racism isn’t dead yet. They all point to our Black President, Tiger Woods, the Williams Sisters; the usual suspects. But let’s talk about something that happened to me Saturday afternoon. I…
2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski is getting ready for the 2014 season already. That includes a trip to Phoenix where Kenny Sargent and Bo Brock spent some time with one of the good guys in stock car racing. Brad, in fact, went on a rant that included the difference between rule making and…
NHRA Pomona Pro Stock winner Jason Line is another Friend of the Freaks who had a special mission in Pomona last weekend. His teammate Greg Anderson couldn’t be at the event because he was back at home undergoing a pretty serious medical procedure. That made the win all the more special with Line eventually dedicating…
Ray Evernham has had a brilliant career in NASCAR racing including winning three championships with Jeff Gordon, starting his own team to bring Dodge back to NASCAR and being named the 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Illustrated Person of the Year. His next act will see him move from ESPN where he was a NASCAR analyst…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… Sunday morning on ESPN’s excellent Outside the Lines program there was a stat that said participation in little league football programs is down up to 30 percent in the last five years. It said mothers don’t like what they’re hearing about concussions…
Actor and race team owner Patrick Dempsey didn’t have a great Rolex 24 at Daytona but that didn’t stop him from sharing some great time with The Freaks and Bo Brock last week. Dempsey is building a world class racing operation as he continues developing into a world class race car driver. It all makes…
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