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…
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