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Christian Eckes on Dirt, Eight-Wide & Racing Bricks

ARCA Pocono Winner Christian Eckes is another in the long line of ARCA drivers who come into The Freak Nation and have brilliant conversations. Eckes raced both in ARCA and the NASCAR Truck Series this weekend. And he explained how both are radically different. He talked about the peculiarities racing at Pocono. And he hinted…

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Kyle Busch on Nextel, Fools & Kentucky

Sunday night we looked back on a conversation with 2015 NASCAR Cup Champion Kyle Busch. This talke, however, was 11 years before that in 2004 after Kyle, 19 at the time, won a Busch Series race in Kentucky. The Cup series was sponsored by Nextel at the time and Kyle was longing to be a…

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Don Garlits on Safety, Snakes & Shooters

There’s no larger name in all of drag racing history that Big Daddy Don Garlits.  Some people know that name if they don’t know any other from the sport.  His friends sometimes call him just Big.  We couldn’t, even though we had several conversations with Garlits. This one was in 2008 at the Mopar Mile…

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