2024 NASCAR Xfinity Champion Owner Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was overjoyed Saturday night after winning the 2024 Xfinity title as a team owner. His driver Justin Allgaier drove an aggressive race to get the title, Earnhardt’s fourth after winning Chase Elliott in 2014, William Byron in 2017 and Tyler Reddick in 2019. Oddly enough Byron and…
2017 NASCAR Cup Series Champion Martin Truex, Jr. says this will be his last full-time season racing in the Cup Series. Truex won the pole for Sunday race at Phoenix Raceway. He talked with media about that success and what his thought were as he prepared for his last full-time race. He did leave the…
Open Wheel Showdown Promoter Davey Hamilton, Jr. came into The Freak Nation this week while he was painting walls and solving hundreds of issues getting ready for the richest pavement sprint car show, the Riskon360! Open Wheel Showdown for Winged Sprint Cars at the Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Aaron Willison of Langley, British…
1990 & 1994 IndyCar Champion & N.Y. Times Bestselling Author Jade Gurss on Unser’s “Checkered Past” memoir. Gurss has worked with several motor racing drivers including Dale Earnhardt, Jr. to tell emotional stories in and out of the racing cockpit. The book he did with Al Unser, Jr. is just being released and includes stories…
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.…
Seven-Time TransAm Champion Ernie Francis, Jr. is finally breaking into the motorsports consciousness after finishing second in the inaugural SRX Racing Series. Francis is one of the most successful racers in America but few people knew who he was until SRX and television put him on the map. At 23, Francis is ready to step…
The Freaks took a Freakin’ Flashback with NBC NASCAR Analyst Dale Earnhardt Sunday night. We went back to 2006 and a conversation we had with the popular former NASCAR driver. Of all things, Earnhardt talked about his artistic talents and how they might have given him another career outside of racing. The issue was some…
On our 19th Anniversary we had to dig out our first conversation with a huge name in NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., It was three months before his father was killed in a crash at Daytona. Junior was pretty tired after a race in Phoenix, a late night flight and some relaxation in a Los Angeles…
1990 & 1994 CART Champion Al Unser, Jr. visited The Freak Nation Sunday night to talk about his expanding role with Harding Steinbrenner Racing which will field an IndyCar team this year for 18-year-old Colton Herta. George Steinbrenner, the grandson of the late Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, is only 22 and could be considered a…
1990 & 1994 IndyCar Series Champion Al Unser, Jr. relaxed in The Freak Nation Sunday night. The 1992 & 1994 Indianapolis 500 Champion has visited several times but Sunday he was ready to talk about everything from Gaby, to Gabby Girl, to the demands of racing at ISM Raceway. He also was embarrassed to talk…
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