Motor Racing Legend Mario Andretti, the 1978 Formula One champion, visited with The Freaks at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas last week. As it can happen with Mario, the conversation went to diverse places. That included racing comebacks, football comebacks, crap starters, Johnny Manziel and dirty diapers. Mario Andretti is a longtime Friend of…
Newly crowned 2013 IndyCar champion Scott Dixon stepped from the IndyCar season ending banquet in Hollywood Sunday night to talk with The Freaks. It was just a few hours from the season ending MAVTV 500 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana where Dixon won his third IndyCar title. We got a chance to celebrate with…
Monday AM Update on Dario Franchitti: Following the events of the last lap of the Grand Prix of Houston IZOD IndyCar Series race on Sunday, Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver Dario Franchitti was admitted awake and alert to Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in Houston for a concussion, two spinal fractures and a fracture to…
ESPN Motorsports Writer John Oreovicz was in Houston when three-time Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti crash heavily at the end of the IndyCar race Sunday. Oreovicz has been an IndyCar analyst for many years. He has valuable ideas of how the series could make changes that could increase track safety. We learned a bit of…
IndyCar analyst Robin Miller is one of the world’s most versed on the machinations inside IndyCar. That’s why The Freaks had him in The Freak Nation Sunday night before IndyCar’s next round in Houston next weekend. It also came at the end of a pretty difficult week that saw IndyCar losing marketing partners and making…
IndyCar Baltimore winner Simon Pagenaud has been a visitor in The Freak Nation many times including his visits as a sports car driver. But his success in IndyCar finds him third in the championship with a chance at the title with three races left at two venues in Houston and Fontana. Pagenaud can tell us…
IndyCar Sonoma winner Will Power talked with The Freaks in the midst of his dash to the airport to return home. Power had his wife drive while he talked with The Freaks. That’s a running theme in this conversation. So is the biggest controversy in the Sonoma Raceway IndyCar race: a penalty given to race…
Charlie Kimball is the fourth IndyCar driver to get his first win of the year. It came Sunday at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Kimball dominated the race but the headline now is how he overcame his Type 1 Diabetes to get the win. Let’s say the race wasn’t the only battle going on inside his…
IndyCar driver Scott Dixon is on one of the great streaks in open-wheel racing. He’s won the last three rounds of the Izod IndyCar series in Pocono and both sides of the Toronto doubleheader. That leaves him second in the 2013 championship with the next race coming at Mid-Ohio August 4th. Dixon was the IndyCar…
We found one of the best media minds in motorsports, Speed.com’s Motor Racing Editor Marshall Pruett. One of his primary beats is IndyCar and that put him in Toronto last weekend for the doubleheader weekend dominated by Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon. Pruett explained to us how IndyCar can continue it’s climb back to the…
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