This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. When Darrell Wallace got into the NASCAR Playoffs Saturday night it was an important moment in his life and the life of a global motor sport. He gets to play further in NASCAR’s Chase for the Championship. He stared down millions on and…
NASCAR Cup Indianapolis Road Course Winner Michael McDowell came into The Freak Nation Sunday Night for an in-depth conversation on his Indy win. It was an important win for McDowell in that it put him into the NASCAR playoffs, a great moment for his young independent team Front Row Motorsports. McDowell is a longtime Friend…
NASCAR Team Owner Rick Hendrick & 2021 NASCAR Cup Champion Kyle Larson Sunday morning announced the paint schemes for their attack on the 2024 Indy 500 and NASCAR Coke 600, the famed Motor Racing Double that will be known next year as the Hendrick 1100. Larson will be making his debut in IndyCar when he…
2023 NASCAR Chicago Street Race Winner Shane Van Gisbergen made his NASCAR oval racing debut this weekend when he ran in the NASCAR Truck race at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis. Van Gisbergen runs all road courses in the V8 Supercars Series where he’s won three championships. He finished tenth Sunday in the IMS road…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. This Noah Gragson story in NASCAR is troubling. These kinds of headlines show up every season. We’ve had racial slurs, nooses, now social media likes clicked for racially insensitive graphics. Drivers, like everyone else, can think whatever they want. But you wonder why…
Legendary Drivers Richard Petty & Don Garlits talked with the Freaks many years ago. Petty talked about NASCAR’s future and the possibility of racing in Big Cities. We pulled that from our Freakin’ Flashback Files. And on Petty’s 86th birthday Sunday, we remembered Legendary Drag Racer Don Garlits telling us about how he considered Petty’s…
There were many stories written this week making Chicago the first NASCAR street ever. But Kenny Sargent covered one way back in September of 1999 in Los Angeles around the Los Angeles Coliseum parking lot. Some major names were in the NASCAR Southwest Tour race including Cup stars Kenny Irwin (pictured) and Ken Schrader. Listen…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I’m often critical of NASCAR but this Chicago street race thing was positively inspired. Overlook the weather. It rains in the Midwest in the summertime. The layout of the track, though, was excellent. It inspired racing bumper to bumper. Even the drivers had…
NASCAR Personality Kenny Wallace has been in The Freak Nation several times. This was from 2006 when Wallace relaxed enough to take on a fellow driver on the track: NASCAR Cup Series Champion Kurt Busch. He also had some opinions on Don The Snake Prudhomme and the women who roam the pits “for no apparent…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Three weeks ago, I offered the idea that NASCAR could attract new private equity money if it would put a cap on spending and allow teams to make a profit. I said it would take five years. Well, it didn’t take five weeks.…
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