NHRA Lucas Oil Brainerd Nationals Top Fuel Winner Billy Torrence is a part-time driver in the NHRA but he got a full-time win at Brainerd. He best four-time champion Antron Brown by two feet for the vitory. Is he ready for a full-time schedule now? Or is he happier running his own business at home?…
Defending NHRA Top Fuel Champion & ESPY Nominee Brittany Force is one of four drivers up for Driver of the Year at the ESPN Award Ceremony. No drag racing, including her father, has ever won the award. But Brittany’s story is just strong enough to get the necessary votes. Bu the way, you can vote…
NHRA Bristol Top Fuel Winner Tony Schumacher is an eight time Top Fuel Champion. That breaks a record of five held by Joe Amato. Six of those championships came consecutively from 2004 to 2009. But his win Sunday in Bristol was his first since March of 2017 at Gainesville. Despite the months of frustration, Schumacher…
NHRA Top Qualifier Top Fuel Topeka Clay Millican is always a welcome guest in The Freak Nation. He’s been a long time friend. So close, in fact, that he’s offered Keny and Statt Mann a taste of nitro itself! And we lived to tell about it. Just like telling about the rain and the cars…
NHRA Atlanta Top Fuel Winner Leah Pritchett came into The Freak Nation after her first win inf the season. She appears to be the only Top Fuel team in the Don Schumacher Racing compound that’s winning. She said she was surprised by the NHRA’s promotion of women in drag racing this weekend. Frankly, her surprise…
NHRA Houston Top Fuel Winner Brittany Force, the 2017 NHRA Top Fuel Champion, came into The Freak Nation after her first 2018 victory. Force was excited to turn her season around after an accident ended her day in Pomona in February and left her in the hospital. Force says she’s now ready to fight to…
Drag Racing Legend Don Prudhomme, ranked number three in the NHRA’s list of Top 50 Drag Racers of All-time, came back to The Freak Nation Sunday night after an absence of several years. Prudhomme is one of the few to ever win championships in both the Top Fuel and Funny Car categories of the NHRA.…
NHRA Gainesville Top Fuel Winner Richie Crampton returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night hours after his first win in more than a year. Crampton talked about a number of things including overcoming all sorts of problems on the day. And his new crew member from NASCAR who might stay a while. And what’s he…
2017 NHRA Top Fuel Champion Brittany Force amazes us every time she stops in The Freak Nation. Sunday was no different. Brittany has grown so much in such a short time winding up in her championship last year. The win earned her several special trips including an eye-to-eye face off with a live bull. And…
NHRA Phoenix Top Fuel Winner Steve Torrence came into The Freak Nation Sunday night with a celebratory attitude. Torrence was ready to party after beating everyone in the other lane Sunday including his teammate and Dad, Billy Torrence. Will Dad be there all season? And will he finish the championship run he missed last year?…
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