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Tim Wilkerson on His First Funny Car Win in Four Years

NHRA Mello Yello Atlanta Funny Car winner Tim Wilkerson is a veteran in drag racing. He’s been close but the win Sunday was his first since 2011. Wait’ll you hear Wilkerson’s candor about being a single car team in a sport that’s going corporate with multi-car efforts. Wilkerson tells us about a conversation he’s had…

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Scott Dixon is The Top Qualifier at Indy 500

2015 Indy 500 Pole winner Scott Dixon is a LONG time Friend of the Freaks. Whenever he visits it’s after some brilliance on a race track somewhere. This time it was being the Top Qualifier for next weekend’s Indy 500. But we talked candidly about problems with the speeds this weekend and the car’s flying…

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Flipping Out About Indy Practice

This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… I’m completely confused at motor racing these days.  For all the talk of safety, it seems that money is in charge of decisions and that’s troubling in the extreme. (LA Times Image) Now I don’t pretend to know all that’s going on…

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