Three-time Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti was a teammate with 2010 Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray at the Rolex 24 last weekend. Franchitti and McMurray are also teammates at the Chip Ganassi Racing stables. So, in the midst of all this, Dario and Jamie have a friendship outside the race car cockpit. They demonstrated that…
Double Supercross champion Ryan Villopoto is getting his 2013 season rolling with his second straight win in Oakland Saturday night. Villopoto came into The Freak Nation Sunday night to analyze his win and the season that’s turning around after a slow start. Villopoto led wire-to-wire after nailing the hole-shot to earn his 26th career victory.…
Major League Baseball pitcher C.J. Wilson has always found racing to be a passion. He fulfills that passion owning a development team for Mazda. That’s the hat he was wearing before the Rolex 24 when The Freaks sat down with Wilson for a no-holds barred investigative interview in which C.J. shed light on several issues…
Five-time Rolex 24 winner Scott Pruett is maybe the best sports car driver in U.S. history. He backed that up this weekend with his record tying fifth overall win at the 24 Hour Classic at Daytona International Speedway. Pruett spend more than ten hours behind the wheel to get the win but when he wasn’t…
When Sebastien Bourdais was the hottest, he ripped off four consecutive ChampCar championships in American open-wheel. After a stint in F1 he’s fighting to get back to that championship form, racing full time in IndyCar and Grand-Am this weekend at the Rolex 24. But what we enjoy most about Bourdais is his candor. He’ll answer…
Velocity Worldwide/Wayne Taylor Racing driver Jordan Taylor and his friend Mark Jensen were the buzz of the paddock at the Rolex 24. A YouTube video launch by the pair and fellow drivers Spencer Pigot and Ricky Taylor is developing some energy on the Web service. It’s called Good Vibrations and it’s been vibrating through the…
Defending Rolex 24 winner Ozz Negri took over a Michael Shank Racing Daytona Prototype way back in the field because of problems with the car’s setup. But after a long pitstop Negri got in the car and brought it back past more than 25 competitors while making up more than two laps on the field.…
IndyCar veteran Tony Kanaan put together a special Brazilian team to run the Rolex 24 this weekend. The Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Brazil team has veteran drivers including Kanaan and former F1 star Rubens Barrichello, but it also has some new crew people who are just learning the rigors of international sports car racing. But…
Scott Pruett is The Man in Grand-Am Rolex DP racing. He’s won five championships including the last three in a row. He has three wins and two seconds in the last five Rolex 24s. So it’s not a real surprise that he won the pole in the current race and led through the first three…
What did your mom always say to your old man when he cranked the car a little too fast through the turn, “Hey slow down Mario Andretti!” We SpeedFreaks know better cuz when Mario comes into the Freak Nation we want his foot on the floor and a full middle finger to the detractors. He’s…
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