16-time NHRA Funny Car Champion John Force is a wonderfully great conversation in The Freak Nation. A day after his 73rd birthday, Force sat with the Freaks to talk about a host of things including his dinosaur tendencies and his musical tastes that run from Hank Williams, Jr. to Elton John and Eminem. Wait’ll you…
NHRA Gainesville Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan is always fun when he visits The Freak Nation. He knows that when he talks with The Freaks it’s been a good weekend when he’s won an event. We’ve followed Hagan’s career from his days as a farmer to now when he owns the farm and he has…
NHRA Phoenix Funny Car Winner Robert Hight is on the hottest streak to start the 2022 season. He’s been in eight final rounds and won all eight. His two event winning streak is a great start toward championships he won in 2009, 2017 and 2019. Hight admitted the battle to do all that winning has…
NHRA Funny Car Reading Winner Tommy Johnson, Jr. returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night after winning as a substitute driver for three time champion Matt Hagan. Johnson topped 16-time champion John Force in the finals at Reading, the first of seven Countdown to the Championship races in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series.…
We love having NHRA Lucas Oil Brainerd Nationals Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan in The Freak Nation. He’s always candid with us and Sunday night was no different. He talked about his focus before a race and how he had to get in the face of 16-time Funny Car Champion John Force at the end…
NHRA Winternationals Funny Car Winner Ron Capps is a longtime Friend of the Freaks. So when he visited Sunday night it was an enjoyable conversation that brought up some peculiar methods Capps uses to get ready to compete in the NHRA. He also had some well thought out opinions on F1 and a possible invitation…
NHRA Las Vegas Four-Wide Funny Car Winner Bob Tasca III is part of his family’s Ford dealerships so he’s got a different slant on supporting the electrification of professional racing in the NHRA. Tasca also had great comments to make on whether or not nitro drag racing should return to the classic quarter mile race…
NHRA Funny Car Driver Alexis DeJoria is coming off her strongest season to date. Alexis started in the 11,000 horsepower Nitro Funny Cars in 2011 and has five wins now. But she was out of the car for a year putting together her own team for a return in 2019. The COVID restrictions in 2020…
Last year The Freaks spent more than an hour with maybe the greatest drag racer ever, 16-time Funny Car champion John Force. Force has been a Friend of the Freaks for every one of our 20 years. So this visit was like Old Home Week for all of us. A conversation with John is fun…
2020 NHRA Funny Car Champion Matt Hagan is a longtime Friend of the Freaks that’s why it was fun to talk with him after his third championship. Hagan is a Virginia farmer who’s grown his business relationships thorugh his racing success. We catch him while he’s getting his truck repaired after some problem with mules.…
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