NHRA St. Louis Pro Stock Winner Erica Enders returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night after a big win. She’s fighting for another championship to go along with those won in 2015 and 2015. Enders is growing up with another birthday Tuesday. So she was hesitant to talk about the drivers she likes to beat…
Our Freakin Flashback this week goes back 15 years to 2004 and a conversation with drag racing legend Don The Snake Prudhomme. Snake visited The Freak Nation on a Sunday night when we were using the radio show as the core of our weekly television broadcast on the Speed Channel network. Snake was pretty comfortable…
NHRA Maple Grove Funny Car Winner Jack Beckman returned to The Freak Nation Sunday Night shortly after his win in Pennsylvania. Beckman has never been short of opinions or expressing them in The Freak Nation and Sunday night was no different. Wait’ll you hear what he has to say about the merits of the NHRA…
Comp Eliminator Drag Racer Ed Federkeil is getting ready for the U.S. Nationals next weekend in Indianapolis. The Big Go, as it’s called, is the largest drag racing weekend in the world. And Federkeil has great plans for his comp eliminator drag racer, plans that could help fire fighters around the world, It’s called Hoods…
NHRA Seattle Top Fuel Winner Austin Prock made a splashing debut into The Freak Nation Sunday night. But when he made Don The Snake Produhomme the Coolest drag racer of them all, that wrecked the phlace. Prock races for John Force, considered maybe the best drag racer of all time. Prock got his first win…
NHRA Sonoma Funny Car Winner Robert Hight won his 50th event Sunday and came into The Freak Nation for some fun. Hight recalled his first call to The Freaks after is first win years ago. He explains why he wins so often at Sonoma. Maybe it’s because his crew-chief Jimmy Prock lets him have input…
NHRA Denver Pro Stock Winner Greg Anderson broke his year-long winless streak Sunday at the Mile High Nationals. The idea of Anderson going winless is pretty rare considering he’s won four championships (2003-05, 2010) and was the 2004 Speed Channel Driver of the Year, one of only three drag racers to earn the honor. Anderson…
There’s no larger name in all of drag racing history that Big Daddy Don Garlits. Some people know that name if they don’t know any other from the sport. His friends sometimes call him just Big. We couldn’t, even though we had several conversations with Garlits. This one was in 2008 at the Mopar Mile…
NHRA Norwalk Pro Stick Motorcycle Winner Andrew Hines has turned around a disappointing season in 2018 to a near perfect season in 2019. He told The Freak Nation that the mental changes he needed for wins in 2019 were substantial. In fact, the changes were coupled with renewed commitments to physical training at the gym.…
NHRA Top Fuel Chicago Winner Steve Torrence, the defending Top Fuel champion, won his fourth straight race on the NHRA season. Torrence is dominating the series in 2019. He must be in the heads of the other drivers because his Capco team is running so consistently strong. But Torrence is getting used to his Freak…
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