NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel driver J.R. Todd was sitting at home watching March Madness last spring when the phone ring. The next 24 hours was an odyssey you wouldn’t believe if you saw it in a film. Todd was out of the sport full-time at the beginning of the season. By the end of…
2012 NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel champion Antron Brown hired a “body man” to get ready for the 2015 Top Fuel season that starts this weekend in Pomona, California. Brown is a former track athlete and thought it proper to get a physical trainer to get him ready to deal with the violence of Top…
NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car driver Ron Capps is a long-time Friend of the Freaks who’s battled to the wire more than once for a championship. A couple of the John Force titles came at Ron Capps’ expense. Capps is ready for another run at The King but he had to rehab from off-season surgery…
1992 and 2008 NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car champion Cruz Pedregon is off to an encouraging start for 2015. His elapsed times at the pre-season testing was among the top five in times. But Cruz said some of the cars weren’t going their hardest. Still, Cruz knows how to win and beat the King of…
2015 Daytona 24 Hours winners Kyle Larson and Jamie McMurray are expanding their NASCAR faces further into the world of sports car racing. The win on Continental Tires Sunday in Daytona brings a new Rolex watch to both their wrists. But even larger is what this win does to their resumes, their experience behind the…
Chip Ganassi won his sixth Daytona 24 Hours race Sunday in a dramatic closing stint by three-time Indy Car champion Scott Pruett. Ganassi, a long-time Friend of the Freaks stepped from the podium in the Daytona Media Center right into The Freak Nation/Continental Tire Garage and he chilled a bit to talk about the victory.
The Freaks love Jordan Taylor. He’s young enough to make great music videos. He’s young enough to write his own music and attract the attention of a major music producer. He’s young enough to win Tudor United Sportscar races. And he was once young enough to attract the attention of Daytona International Speedway cops who…
Ozz Negri and his new Honda powered Ligier from Michael Shank Racing led the field to the green flag at the Daytona 24 Hours. Negri won the pole as the top qualifier at the classic race. It’s a special “win” for Michael Shank Racing. The team moved over to Honda power after years of running…
The most successful sports car driver in America, Scott Pruett, came into The Continental Tire Freak Nation Saturday after his first stint at the Daytona 24 Hours. Pruett seemed relaxed but he was quick to comment on the wild driving he witnessed at Daytona. But he also was quick to talk about his passion (besides…
Joao Barbosa is the defending prototype champion in the Tudor United Sportscar Championship plus his Action Express team launched into that title winning last year’s Daytona 24 Hours. So when he got out of the Action Express Corvette this year we were quick to talk with him. We were especially interested in the qild shoes…
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