2016 IndyCar Champion Simon Pagenaud, winner of the 2019 Indy 500, is a long time Friend of the Freaks. So Simon’s visit was well accepted and enjoyed. While Pagenaud talked fun in the racing off-season he had some sadness at not being able to spend Christmas at home in Paris for the first time in…
2020 IMSA Endurance Champion Team Owner Wayne Taylor returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night in a chilled mood. Taylor was relaxing while talking with The Freaks about his championship season for Wayne Taylor Racing and for his sons Jordan and Ricky who won titles with other programs. Taylor’s team is going through some changes…
NASCAR Driver Riley Herbst announced this week that he’d spend the 2021 season and beyond with Stewart Haas Racing, one of the most successful programs in stock car racing. Herbst is from a very successful off-road racing family but his move to pavement racing caught some in the family business by surprise. But Riley’s success…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Watching the ceremony at the start of Sunday’s Formula One race in Abu Dhabi it hit me: what a shame it would be to see this year’s ceremonial calls for change be reduced to ritual in the future. 2020 has been full of…
Four-Time NHRA World Champion Don “The Snake” Prudhomme returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night to give The Freaks a peak into his new book “Don Prudhomme, My Life Beyond The 1320.” Prudhomme said telling the stories forced him to reveal parts of his life no one has ever seen. One of the greatest drag…
NASCAR Broadcaster Jamie Little has spent the last 20 years breaking through glass ceilings opening doors for women to follow her into motor racing. But Jamie is a long-time Friend of the Freaks so her visit was welcome and a long time coming. She’s breaking through another barrier in 2021 when she takes over the…
2020 NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car Champion Doug Gordon visited The Freak Nation Sunday night to talk about his championship captured in the midst of a pandemic that shut down 2020 motor racing for months. The Lucas Oil driver Gordon lives in one of America’s garden spots in the California Central Coast Wine Region. Still…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Winning in motor racing might be the hardest thing to do in sport. Look at British rally driver Elfyn Evans who was cruising to his first World Rally Championship when he slid off the road Saturday in the Italian Alps at Rally Monza.…
IMSA Sebring 12 Hour Winner Jonathan Bomarito dropped by The Freak Nation on his way home Sunday night. Bomarito drove a Mazda prototype with Harry Tincknell and Ryan Hunter-Reay. It was a weird race beyond being moved from the normal date in March to the Covid inspired appearance in November. Listen…
2020 NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster Champion Megan Meyer is making a couple strange steps in this strange year. She got married in the middle of a championship fight during a pandemic. And the Lucas Oil sponsored driver doesn’t plan on chasing another championship when the season gets underway next year. Her plan is to make…
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