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…
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Phoenix winner Erik Jones made history in the race. He’s the youngest winner ever in NASCAR at 17 years. But Jones’ conversation far outdistances his age. You’ll hear a driver with a more mature conversation than most NASCAR driver twice his age. Listen to Erik Jones and you’ll hear the…
Former IndyCar champion Sam Hornish has found the goings in NASCAR pretty tough. But he’s learning the sport now as he competes for the Nationwide championship against Austin Dillon. Hornish is eight points back with one race to go at Homestead next weekend. But The Freaks found Hornish to be a fount of information on…
The Freaks often enjoy calling into rabbit holes where our minds wander to all sorts of realities. This is one of those times from Sunday Night when we thought about what would it be like for drivers from racing’s past to have a modern day Twitter account? Who could handle it? What would the Tweets…
Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series driver Todd LeDuc made another visit to The Freak Nation to talk about the Load Mart Turkey Bowl that’s coming up at Perris Auto Speedway. It’s a chance for LeDuc to do something very different with a lot of money at stake. On dirt! What else would be needed to…
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Texas winner Ty Dillon was in The Freak Nation when his grandfather and team owner Richard Childress dropped in for a beer and some conversation. Dillon and Childress are building something special at Childress’ team. So we talked about just about everything else. What else would The Freaks do? Still…
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Martinsville winner Darrell Wallace, Jr. made history Saturday becoming only the second African American driver to win a NASCAR national touring series race. He follows in the legendary footsteps of Wendell Scott who won today’s equivalent of a Sprint Cup race in Jacksonville in 1963. Wallace was emotional trying to…
R.J. Anderson missed on his Pro-Lite championship but he did get a Pro-Lite win at Lake Elsinore Saturday in the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series. Anderson is another regular in The Freak Nation. This time, however, he did give us some insight into head injuries in racing including his own unfortunate concussion that should have…
Legendary drag racer John Force came into The Freak Nation Sunday night just hours after winning his 16th NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Funny Car title. Force is a regular in The Freak Nation nearly as much as he’s a regular in Victory Circle. He talked about his win and his renewed effort to get…
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…
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