ARCA Team Owner Billy Venturini is the owner and competition director of Venturini Motorsports. It’s the only ARCA team that Toyota is in partnership with. Venturini has sent a steady stream of drivers to NASCAR, dozens into the NASCAR Cup program. But while he’s training future race winners he’s winning races now. Listen…
Reuters & SiriusXM Motorsports Insider Lewis Franck returned to the Freak Nation Sunday night to talk about the hair-on-fire finish to the NASCAR race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Decisions made in the last couple turns cost seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson a chance at an eighth title. Was the risk worth the reward to Johnson? Franck…
The Freaks dip into 18 years of interviews to come up with a five year old conversation with A.J. Allmendinger. This was before Allmendinger signed with JTG Daughtery to run in the NASCAR Cup series. It was announced this week that Allmendinger would be losing the JTG ride next year. We thought it was a…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. It was an empowering week for women everywhere. And that includes 17-year-old Hailie Deegan who became the first woman to win a NASCAR K&N Pro Series Race last night in Idaho. She only led one lap at Meridian Speedway but it was the…
NASCAR Analyst Kyle Petty is a regular in The Freak Nation. This conversation, in fact, is five years old and continues The Freak journey through 18 years of GREAT interviews. Kyle Petty was always candid in his Freak visits. This time was no different especially when he talked about former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick. This…
2002, 2005 & 2011 NASCAR Cup Champion Tony Stewart returned to The Freak Nation from our Freak Archives. It was back in April, 2013 at Texas Motor Speedway that The Freaks visited Tony in his motorcoach only to find him pretty casual in his underwear. Tony talked about a number of issues from driving across…
You never know what to expect from Clint Bowyer when he visits the Freak Nation. And this visit in Phoenix in 2012 was right before the NASCAR Cup appearance at what’s now ISM Raceway. Bowyer, in fact, threw down some shade on Teh Freaks when the conversation slipped to hunting and wrenching ducks. Bowyer is…
NASCAR XFinity Road America Winner Justin Allgaier is becoming a regular in The Freak Nation and he enjoys the visit. Allgaier is learning how to drive road courses in his job with Jr. Motorsports. Winning at Road America is tough for anyone. But Justin got the win despite some late mistakes. He explains how he…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Word of Kasey Kahne’s desire to end his full-time NASCAR career took me back a few years. Kahne was an unknown talent when he was a guest at a SpeedFreaks party at Irwindale Speedway one Saturday night maybe 15 years ago. He was…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. There’s a trend here worth noting. NASCAR has had 39 drivers win at least one of its 68 championships through last season. Of those 39 drivers, only seven have been 40 or older. The oldest? 45-year-old Bobby Allison, leader of the Alabama Gang,…
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