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.…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I love it when people think outside the box. Refusing to think outside the box may be a reason why so many Americans are quarantined inside a social box now. But I saw some outside the box thinking today while watching CBS Sunday…
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…
1999 IndyCar Series Champion Tony Kanaan, the 2004 Indy 500 winner, is a longtime Friend of the Freaks as well. Kanaan was in another sim race this weekend in addition to the IndyCar iRacing event Saturday. The Legends event included names like Emerson Fittipaldi and Juan Montoya. Kanaan, though, has fun anywhere he competes. Listen…
The Athletic Motorsports Analyst Jeff Gluck is a longtime Friend of the Freaks. His appearance Sunday night shed some light on the growing presence of sim racing in motorsports. Gluck said he wasn’t a regular in the sim world but he knows how important it is in a content starved industry today. Listen…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Those of you waiting for things to return to normal better take two aspirin and sleep that off. The normal we knew is gone. Except maybe in NASCAR. Despite fan response to the new, shorter and more competitive iRacing invitationals we may see…
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