2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Kurt Busch makes his home in North Carolina as a NASCAR champion. But he told The Freaks the other day that he especially liked returning to the West where he grew up on little bull ring tracks with his family while he learned his race craft. Kurt also spent some…
Eight-time NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel Champion Tony Schumacher won his last championship in 2014. So he’s ready to reclaim what he believes is rightly his title. He did that like he normally does, with a military training regimin that befits his 18 year relationship with the U.S. Army. Tony is so committed to a…
Maybe the greatest drag racer of all time, John Force, didn’t have an off-season according to him. He spent the weeks figuring out how to catch up with the competition. He had to find the money to keep up with the competition. And, apparently, he was successful because the Force Funny Cars and Top Fuel…
Fast Jack Beckman, the 2012 NHRA Funny Car champion, had a great time during the off-season relaxing, surfing and getting his mind ready for the start of the season this weekend at the Winternationals in Pomona. Fast Jack held up his end of the nickname last season setting a Funny Car record at 3.912 at…
NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel driver JR Todd was a career best second in the 2014 points chase. He was in the Countdown in 2015 with a win in Seattle. All of this raised Todd’s stature with a team sponsor. It put him on the road learning about the pavement industry. That’s in between some…
2015 Rolex 24 at Daytona winners Scott Sharp and Pipo Derani made some history this weekend. They teamed with Ed Brown and Johannes van Overbeek for the victory. Their win gave Honda it’s first Rolex 24 overall win. it gave chassis builders Ligier it’s first Rolex 24 win. And it gave the first overall win…
2015 Rolex 24 at Daytona GTD winner Andy Lally is a long time Friend of the Freaks. So when he comes into the Continental Tires Media Suite at Daytona he comes prepared for some Freakish conversation. We wanted to know more than the details of a win that gave Andy his eighth Rolex watch. We…
Legendary race car driver Tom Kristensen, a nine-time Le Mans winner and Grand Marshall at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, came to the Continental Tire Media Suite Sunday morning to talk about racing and music. Kristensen is retired but he said he’d love to race at Daytona if he’d ever think about coming back. But…
Patrick Lindsey, driver of the Park Place Motorsports Porsche GT3 R in the Rolex 24, made some headlines Sunday morning in Daytona. His car had problems and instead of driving on the racetrack back to the pits,he took a side road and…well we’ll let you hear the story from him. It’s a story you’ll never…
2012 Rolex 24 winner A.J. Allmendinger turned in an excellent first stint in this weekend’s race at Daytona International Speedway. When that stint was over A.J. came into the Continental Tire Media Suite to talk about why the stint was cut short while he was leading the race. That’s teammate Ozz Negri with A.J.in the…
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