NHRA Drag Racing Champions Ron Capps and Gary Scelzi Share Memories with The Statt Mann and The Freaks. Ron Capps won the NHRA Funny Car championship in 2016, 2021 and 2022, the last coming in his first year as a team owner. Scelzi went on to win three Top Fuel championships. Scelzi unseated the John…
NHRA Funny Car Points Leader Austin Prock stopped a round of golf to talk with The Freaks. The cell service at the golf course wasn’t strong enough so he drove home quickly and reconnected for a great conversation. Prock equaled a record set by his John Force Racing boss, John Force. He’s won 13 top…
Three-time NHRA FC Champion Ron Capps came into The Freak Nation Sunday night. Capps won his championships in 2016, 2021 and 2022. That last title came when Capps was in his first year as a team owner, a very rare accomplishment. But Capps isn’t having that championship kind of season in 2024. His crew chiefs…
NHRA Gainesville Funny Car Winner J.R. Todd’s win in the NHRA season opener had special significance. Connie Kalitta’s son Scott Kalitta died in June of 2008 and that’s when Todd took over the car, winning an NHRA Funny Car championship in 2018. This weekend Scott’s family was in Gainesville to be honored with Scott’s induction…
2016. 2021 & 2022 NHRA Funny Car Champion Ron Capps always has a candid conversation with The Freaks. Kenny and Crash caught up with him in Phoenix and talked about a number of things but the deepest they went looked at what Capps is learning since he took over his own team in 2021. He…
PRO Superstar Shootout Funny Car Winner Austin Prock made his first run in Robert Hight’s race car a special one, winning the highly successful PRO Superstar Shootout Saturday night. The event was put on by the Professional Racer Organization or PRO, that was founded in 1991 to represent teams and drivers to the National Hot…
2023 NHRA Funny Car Champion Matt Hagen led the Tony Stewart Racing crew into The Freak Nation at PRI. But Tony Stewart and his wife and Top Fuel Driver Leah Pruett had several headline making responses in the fun conversation. Included is word that Stewart will drive Pruett’s dragster in the fastest category in drag…
NHRA Las Vegas Funny Car Winner Robert Hight returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night just after beating Bob Tasca in the final at the Nevada Nationals. Only 17 points separate Matt Hagan, Tasca and Hight, the top three in the points standing going into the final event in Pomona in two weeks. The win…
NHRA Texas Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan & Top Fuel Winner Leah Pruett closed out Sunday night with some history for Tony Stewart Racing. It was the first double winning weekend for the team that is only in its second year. Hagan is third in the Funny Car standings with only two events left in…
NHRA Worldwide Technology Raceway Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night after his big win. The stop in S. Louis was halfway through the NHRA’s Championship Playoffs. Three down and three to go with Dallas, Las Vegas and Pomona still on the calendar. Hagan is fourth in the standings, 69…
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