Mikey Childress (and, yes, he’s a distant cousin to NASCAR owner Richard Childress) has won the Mint 400 on a motorcycle but he has problems Saturday in his Class 1500 buggy. Childress and team owner Travis Chase visited with The Freaks Friday before the Mint 400 started. They were part of the General Tire Mint…
2014 NHRA Gainesville Funny Car winner Robert Hight got the 30th victory of his brilliant career Sunday. That ties him with legendary driver Kenny Bernstein and put his right behind names like Don Prudhomme and Cruz Pedregon. Hight is part of the John Force Racing stable. His win, though, hasn’t deterred him from his goal,…
R.J. Anderson is a regular visitor to The Freak Nation. His visit Sunday night was a week before he takes off to do some off-road racing in Dubai. It’s a crazy trip where he’ll spend more than a week doing more than competition, obviously. Anderson also is part of the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series…
2014 Sebring 13 Hour winner Marino Franchitti closed the deal Saturday night getting the Sebring victory for team owner Chip Ganassi and his teammates Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas. Curious thing, though, Franchitti doesn’t have a job this year and he returns to the UK where he’ll continue looking for work. This time with a…
Ray Griffith is part of the General Tire program at the 2014 Mint 400. But he’s also part of The Freaks program coming back in 2014 after appearing last year at the Mint 400 pre-race wearing a pink feathered boa. Yeah! Our kind of off-road racer! But Griffith is at home in both desert and…
Jim Riley makes Azunia Tequila but his passion might be racing his off-road truck. That is, when he’s not with his newborn baby. Riley came into The Freak Nation maybe five years ago when he wasn’t sure about this racing thing. Now he’s full-on racer and loving every minute of it. He was a fixture…
Mikey Childress (and, yes, he’s a distant cousin to NASCAR owner Richard Childress) has been a world record holder in a ProTruck on Pikes Peak, he won the Mint 400 in the motorcycle division and the Best in the Desert Open Pro Division champion. In short, he’s a bad man behind the wheel of an…
General Tire off-road racer Justin Lofton is another that can relax when he comes into The Freak Nation. This time was no different as The Freaks ramp of their coverage of the Mint 400 Off-Road race next weekend in Las Vegas. Lofton is based on the East Coast but he was on the West Coast…
You won’t believe these few minutes with NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Clint Bowyer. He went everywhere in this conversation with The Freaks. It started in the Phoenix outback and went to dirty diapers, freakin’ fans and who knows where else. It’s Clint Bowyer unplugged like you’ve never hear him… Straight Outa Kansas. Listen.
1983 NASCAR Sprint Champion Bobby Allison, part of the Alabama Gang, is one of The Freaks Favorite guests. He can spin a yarn from the Iconic 1979 Daytona 500 Backstretch Fight to his racing memories to his married life that crashed and got back into the race. You MUST listen to this conversation…
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