2000 Indy 500 Winner Juan Pablo Montoya is the only driver to win the CART championship (1999), Indianapolis 500 (2000) and Rolex 24 At Daytona (2007), all in his first attempt. Returned to Indy car racing in 2014 after six seasons competing in Formula One and seven in NASCAR. But Montoya has even more to…
2019 Indy 500 Winner Simon Pagenaud, the Meyer Shank Racing driver, finished second at the 2022 GMR Grand Prix, the road race before the Indy 500. Pagenaud walked with Crash Gladys about a number of things. and, in pure Freak Fashion, the conversation stretched from fashion, to heat, to qualifying to the Indy 500. When…
IndyCar Driver Connor Daly is another fun Freak frankness. We always have fun talking with Connor. He’s a Freak Spirit who doesn’t mind being candid in his conversations. At least he’s that way when he talks with us. Daly has been around the motorsports map. He knows how other parts of the racing community work…
IndyCar Birmingham Winner Pato O’Ward returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night within hours of his win at Barber Motorsports Park. It was O’Ward’s first win of the season. He talked with Kenny Sargent about a number of issues including his decision to more up from his mid-pack racing early in the season. He also…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit… Competition is hard. It’s tough to look someone in the eye and declare: “I’m better than you.” Proving it is difficult in the extreme. That’s why it requires a certain mindset in any competition but especially in non-team competition where you’re one-on-one against…
IndyCar Texas Winner Josef Newgarden returned to the Freak Nation shortly after speaking with reporters after his dramatic last turn pass for the win at Texas Motor Speedway. The highlight of the conversation might be the “straight cash homie” he received from team boss Roger Penske. The win was the 600th for the remarkable Penske…
Seven-time NASCAR champion and, now, IndyCar Driver Jimmie Johnson returned to The Freak Nation during a significant weekend in his IndyCar career. Johnson is in his second season in open wheel but this weekend he broke into the Top Ten of results finishing sixth in Texas. Johnson was strong all day Sunday holding off defending…
IndyCar St. Petersburg Winner Scott McLaughlin was a three-time Australian Supercars Champion (2018, 2019, 2020) when he came to IndyCar last year. He learned his open-wheel lessons pretty well, though, proving it by dominating his first IndyCar race this year in St. Petersburg for his first win in the series. You’ll be surprised, though, what…
2021 IndyCar Champion Alex Palou won his championship at the Long Beach Grand Prix Sunday then came into The Freak Nation before disappearing into a celebratory party after the final race of the season. Palou finished fourth at Long Beach but that was all he needed to take home the title. He earned the championship…
IndyCar USF2000 New Jersey Winner Myles Rowe made some history of his own Sunday before he made his debut in The Freak Nation. Rowe is 21 and the first African American to win a USF2000 event. His team Force Indy is owned by an African American owner Rod Reid. And the two are getting some…
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