Before Jimmie Johnson was a seven-time champion, he was a young gun from California with an elite talent for racing. Scatt Mann caught up with the NASCAR Hall of Famer prior to his ascension to being one of the greatest drivers of all-time to find let people know just who the “real” Jimmie Johnson is…
NASCAR Cup Series Driver Erik Jones has driven for seven time champion Richard Petty for three years. Now he’s about to drive for another seven-time champion, Jimmie Johnson, who’s coming into the owner’s box as a partner with Petty. The Freaks have found Jones to be one of the most well rounded drivers in all…
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…
Seven-Time NASCAR Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson is struggling in the transition to IndyCar racing. He finished 24th out of 25 cars at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Saturday. But he’s keeping a great attitude in his learning season. He was in The Freak Nation this week joining The Freaks from practice at IMS. Johnson is a longtime…
Jimmy Johnson this year announced that 2020 will be his last after which he plans on racing into retirement with seven NASCAR Cup titles in his quiver. Five of those titles came consecutively from 2006-2010. He is tied with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for titles and no one has won more. Johnson is a…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I saw a great 60 Minutes Sports piece this week. It was a feature on the Jackson Wink MMA gym in Albuquerque. The gym has trained champions including Holly Holmes who helped send Rhonda Rousey into wrestling with an upset win in 2015.…
Seven-Time NASCAR Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson spent an afternoon talking with young kids last week. He talked about his love of math when he was growing up and how that made his career choice easier. It’s been a difficult season thus far for Johnson. The wins aren’t coming like they did when he was winning…
Reuters & SiriusXM Motorsports Insider Lewis Franck returned to the Freak Nation Sunday night to talk about the hair-on-fire finish to the NASCAR race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Decisions made in the last couple turns cost seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson a chance at an eighth title. Was the risk worth the reward to Johnson? Franck…
NASCAR Cup Texas Winning Crew Chief Chad Knaus came into The Freak Nation Sunday night after leading Jimmie Johnson and the 48 team to victory at Texas Motor Speedway. Knaus and Johnson have won seven Cup championships together so they know success and each other better than all but anyone. Knaus talked about getting Jimmie…
Seven-Time & 2016 NASCAR Champion Jimmie Johnson came into The Freak Nation this week to share some thoughts on the new NASCAR format that’ll debut next week during the season-opening Daytona 500. Johnson calls it the new NASCAR ecosystem. It includes new race formats, new points formats and new formats for driver safety and concussion…
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