IndyCar Toronto Winner Josef Newgarden was back in The Freak Nation Sunday night. His first trip was after a win at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham. This was a very different victory that came in Toronto where rain tried to wash away the start of the race. But Newgarden held his ground and led when…
NASCAR/IndyCar/Rallycross Team Owner Chip Ganassi had a wild weekend flying all over the U.S. He watched his new rallycross driver get a medal in the X Games Saturday afternoon in Austin. Saturday night he was in Fort Worth watching his IndyCar team finish first and second at Texas Motor Speedway. Then he flew overnight to…
Seastian Bourdais won the rainy IndyCar race on Detroit’s Belle Isle Sunday. Then he came into The Freak Nation to “brag.” Well not brag. If you know Bourdais you know that’s not in him. But he did talk about the issues of racing in the rain and racing on the Belle Isle concrete track. Is…
2015 Indy 500 Pole winner Scott Dixon is a LONG time Friend of the Freaks. Whenever he visits it’s after some brilliance on a race track somewhere. This time it was being the Top Qualifier for next weekend’s Indy 500. But we talked candidly about problems with the speeds this weekend and the car’s flying…
IndyCar Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham winner Josef Newgarden came into The Freak Nation Sunday night while celebrating his first win in the IndyCar series. Newgarden is also part of an emerging American driver pool with the ability to win on open-wheel road courses. Three of the top five finishers at Barber were Americans including…
IndyCar St. Petersburg winner Juan Pablo Montoya came into The Freak Nation Sunday night to talk about his dominating win over 2014 IndyCar champion Will Power Sunday. The win may have signaled a return to IndyCar championship form for Montoya. The former Formula One driver won the CART title in 1999 and the Indianapolis 500…
Lyn St. James has spent a lifetime breaking barriers for women in racing. She was the 1992 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year. And last week, the car she used to pass her rookie test at Indy, was unveiled at a special reception in her Phoenix home. The car is now hanging on Lyn’s living…
2014 IndyCar champion Will Power is another who’s a regular in The Freak Nation. His overall championship this year comes after two years as the IndyCar road course champion in 2010 and 2011. His second place finishes in the championship were worrisome until he closed the deal this season as the expense of his teammate…
2014 Indy 500 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay has five victories, including Indy in May, since signing an extension with Andretti Autosport. Before this weekend’s IndyCar race in Milwaukee Hunter-Reay announced another extension through 2017. The agreement matches the extension of DHL as primary sponsor of Ryan’s race car. Last week The Freaks talked with Hunter-Reay on…
IndyCar Mid-Ohio winner Scott Dixon is being called the Master of Mid-Ohio. He’s won five of the last eight races at the historic track. This win, however, came from the last starting spot on the grid. That’s never been done on an IndyCar road or street course. But wait until you hear Daddy Dixon talk…
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