2020 NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car Champion Doug Gordon visited The Freak Nation Sunday night to talk about his championship captured in the midst of a pandemic that shut down 2020 motor racing for months. The Lucas Oil driver Gordon lives in one of America’s garden spots in the California Central Coast Wine Region. Still…
2020 NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster Champion Megan Meyer is making a couple strange steps in this strange year. She got married in the middle of a championship fight during a pandemic. And the Lucas Oil sponsored driver doesn’t plan on chasing another championship when the season gets underway next year. Her plan is to make…
2020 NHRA Funny Car Champion Matt Hagan is a longtime Friend of the Freaks that’s why it was fun to talk with him after his third championship. Hagan is a Virginia farmer who’s grown his business relationships thorugh his racing success. We catch him while he’s getting his truck repaired after some problem with mules.…
2020 NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Champion Matt Smith won his title with a far smaller budget than the big pro stock bike teams. The Lucas Oil sponsored rider, in fact, has such a small team he had to drive his bikes back to North Carolina with his wife Angie Smith, a fellow competitor. That’ll be…
NHRA Texas Motorplex Pro Stock Winner Matt Hartford returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night. His big win came last weekend and included some controversial starting line tactics with two-time champion Erica Enders. Hartford was a Sport Compact champion but is just getting up to speed in the NHRA Camping World Series. He talked about…
16-Time NHRA Funny Car Champion John Force is one of the original Friend of the Freaks. He’s supported us from nearly the beginning 20 years ago. This 13 or so minutes is from an hour long conversation with John that’s posted on our You Tube channel. The Force program is taking the 2020 season off…
NHRA Texas Motorplex Funny Car Winner Jack Beckman came into The Freak Nation again. He’s a longtime Friend of the Freaks who is fighting to get his ride for next year sponsored. These are strange times in the NHRA. Even the series switched overall sponsors in mid-season. This Covid year has changed things that maybe…
NHRA Funny Car Gainesville Winner Ron Capps is a longtime Friend of the Freaks. He was in The Freak Nation Sunday night shortly after the win in the Gatornationals. Capps was excited, obviously, about the victory but he was careful to talk about a mild celebration before his flight home at 5:30 in the morning!…
NHRA Top Fuel Indy2 Finalist T.J. Zizzo has been waiting for about two months to run his final round against newcomer Justin Ashley, both of whom reigned over the heavy-hitting, full-time teams in the greasy heat last July to advance to their first career professional final rounds. The rainshowers, however, forced the two unlikely finalists…
NHRA Indy2 Top Fuel Finalist T.J. Zizzo faces pure craziness in 2020 drag racing. He qualified for the Top Fuel Finals in the Indy 2 event. That was last month when rain postponed the final race. Now it’s scheduled for sometime in September. That’s more than 20 weeks between the semis and the finals. Plus,…
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