16-Time NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car Champion John Force is a very long-time Friend of the Freaks. He might be a charter member of that fraternity. Whenever we get a chance to spend a few minutes with the King of Drag Racing we are in awe of where he can take a conversation. And we’re…
NHRA Mello Yello Phoenix Top Fuel Winner Leah Pritchett was riding on a cloud when she came into The Freak Nation Sunday night. She’d just won her first Top Fuel event in a Final Round victory over Brittany Force. It was only the second all-female TF Final and the first since 1982. Leah’s win was…
2016 NHRA Mello Yello Winternationals Funny Car Winner Ron Capps just came from the Pomona Winner Circle festivities when he stepped into The Freak Nation to talk with some friends. Capps admitted he had more than 120 text message in his phone after winning the Winternationals. Some of those message pushed the idea that this…
Eight-time NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel Champion Tony Schumacher won his last championship in 2014. So he’s ready to reclaim what he believes is rightly his title. He did that like he normally does, with a military training regimin that befits his 18 year relationship with the U.S. Army. Tony is so committed to a…
Maybe the greatest drag racer of all time, John Force, didn’t have an off-season according to him. He spent the weeks figuring out how to catch up with the competition. He had to find the money to keep up with the competition. And, apparently, he was successful because the Force Funny Cars and Top Fuel…
Fast Jack Beckman, the 2012 NHRA Funny Car champion, had a great time during the off-season relaxing, surfing and getting his mind ready for the start of the season this weekend at the Winternationals in Pomona. Fast Jack held up his end of the nickname last season setting a Funny Car record at 3.912 at…
NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel driver JR Todd was a career best second in the 2014 points chase. He was in the Countdown in 2015 with a win in Seattle. All of this raised Todd’s stature with a team sponsor. It put him on the road learning about the pavement industry. That’s in between some…
NHRA Mello Yello Pro Stock winner at Epping, New Hampshire Greg Anderson was happy to be back in The Freak Nation. He knows an appearance means he’s done something special like winning. But Anderson had some explaining to do when asked about his wife’s whereabouts Sunday, on her birthday weekend. That’s a story in itself!…
NHRA Mello Yello Houston Pro Stock winner Erica Enders-Stevens was at her Victory Dinner when she called The Freak Nation Sunday night. Her win came in her hometown but it wouldn’t have happened without an incredible effort by her crew to get ready for the second round of action. Listen as Enders-Stevens describes what can…
Richie Crampton is the NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel winner in Las Vegas. Before he got his celebrating underway he stopped by The Freak Nation Sunday night. We talked about the win but we also spent a lot of time about the music that helped him close the deal in Las Vegas. And that playlist…
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