This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Every driver wants to win. It’s the way they’re wired. But team drivers have priorities. The first is beating their teammates. Ferrari had trouble with all of it today in Russia. Apparently the team had a plan for pole sitter Charles LeClerc to…
2019 IndyCar Champion Josef Newgarden was in The Freak Nation right after he earned the title in the season’s final race at WeatherTech Raceway at Laguna Seca where he finished eighth overall. Colton Herta won the race but Newgarden won his second title in the last three years. He’s always a favorite in The Freak…
2018 IMSA Champion Felipe Nasr has a chance to win his second straight title next weekend in the IMSA finale at Road Atlanta. The ten-hour Petit LeMans race is a tough way to decide a championship but that’s the appeal of sports car racing where the events could be 100 minutes or 24 hours. The…
Our Freakin Flashback this week goes back 15 years to 2004 and a conversation with drag racing legend Don The Snake Prudhomme. Snake visited The Freak Nation on a Sunday night when we were using the radio show as the core of our weekly television broadcast on the Speed Channel network. Snake was pretty comfortable…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. For a lark I asked Google for NASCAR headlines from September, 2005; fourteen years ago. The lead story from Fortune Magazine was telling. Remember Nextel Cup? The Allstate 400 at the Brickyard? $740 million, ten-year sponsorships? At the time NASCAR officials were puffing…
IMSA Laguna Seca Winner Dane Cameron is always welcome on Sunday nights. His win along with co-driver Juan Pablo Montoya moved the pair at the doorstep of the 2019 IMSA championship with one race to go in Atlanta. Cameron already has two titles but he’s battling for a third in his Penske Acura DPI. Cameron…
NHRA Maple Grove Funny Car Winner Jack Beckman returned to The Freak Nation Sunday Night shortly after his win in Pennsylvania. Beckman has never been short of opinions or expressing them in The Freak Nation and Sunday night was no different. Wait’ll you hear what he has to say about the merits of the NHRA…
NASCAR Analyst Michael Waltrip hasn’t been in The Freak Nation too often. But when he has a new documentary film coming out we wanted to hear about it. “Blink of an Eye” is about hos Waltrip’s life changed after the 2001 Daytona 500 and the last lap accident that took the life of Waltrip’s friend…
Pro Bass Fisherman James Watson took his maiden voyage into The Freak Nation Sunday night. And we can’t wait to have him back for another visit. Watson is known as Worldwide because of his Gift of Gab, considered a worldwide best. The Pro Bass Fisherman is supported by General Tire but he’s not pulling rubber…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I was super pumped Friday at the introduction of all-electric rallycross machines. IMG promotes the World Rallycross Championship and next year it will introduce a support series called Projekt E. The new car is a collaboration between IMG and an Austrian R&D shop.…
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