This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. First of all, thanks for the big response to last week’s look at the Indy 500 TV ratings. They were the worst ever for a Memorial Day weekend race. You were interested so let’s look a bit deeper. Many in racing lose sight…
Seven-Time NASCAR Champion Richard Petty is the King of Stock Car Racing. And whenever he comes into The Freak Nation it’s like talking with racing royalty. He even wears a “Cowboy Crown” to prove it! The World Wide Technology Raceway honored Petty this weekend allowing him to drive on the track alone before the Cup…
NASCAR WWTR/St. Louis Cup Pole Sitter Chase Briscoe is becoming a regular and welcome visitor to The Freak Nation. Kenny and Crash talked with him shortly after he won the pole for Sunday’s Cup debut at World Wide Technology Raceway. He was excited to see the series move into the St. Louis region of the…
NASCAR WWTR/St. Louis Truck Series Pole Sitter and Race Winner Corey Heim returned to The Freak Nation Sunday Night. He’s part of a long line of relatively new drivers emerging into the stock car racing spotlight with something to say and the ability to say it well. Heim is coming through the Toyota driver development…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Bumped into a ‘Net piece this week that amounted to a State of IndyCar right now. The conversation with Roger Penske was before last weekend’s Indy 500. It gave a little detail on where Penske has spent money and time and where he’s…
Four-Time Indy 500 Winner Helio Castroneves will try for a fifth in a couple weeks. A fifth win would put him above some of the greatest drivers to race at Indy including A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears and Al Unser. Helio is a favorite of the Freaks for his Indy wins and another title he’s held:…
2000 Indy 500 Winner Juan Pablo Montoya is the only driver to win the CART championship (1999), Indianapolis 500 (2000) and Rolex 24 At Daytona (2007), all in his first attempt. Returned to Indy car racing in 2014 after six seasons competing in Formula One and seven in NASCAR. But Montoya has even more to…
2022 Supercross 250SX Showdown Winner Nate Thrasher visited with Kenny and Crash in Salt Lake City before he won his big title at the Supercross 250SX Showdown between the East and West riders. As the Supercross season winds up, the move now is to the outdoor season when MAV-TV and Lucas Oil are major players.…
2019 Indy 500 Winner Simon Pagenaud, the Meyer Shank Racing driver, finished second at the 2022 GMR Grand Prix, the road race before the Indy 500. Pagenaud walked with Crash Gladys about a number of things. and, in pure Freak Fashion, the conversation stretched from fashion, to heat, to qualifying to the Indy 500. When…
IndyCar Driver Connor Daly is another fun Freak frankness. We always have fun talking with Connor. He’s a Freak Spirit who doesn’t mind being candid in his conversations. At least he’s that way when he talks with us. Daly has been around the motorsports map. He knows how other parts of the racing community work…
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