NHRA Phoenix Top Fuel winner Tony Schumacher is a regular visitor in The Freak Nation. When you win seven Top Fuel titles you get regular reservations to The Freak Nation on Sunday nights. Schumacher leads the Top Fuel points by a substantial margin after only two rounds of the 2013 Mello Yello Drag Racing season.…
NHRA Pomona Funny Car winner Courtney Force didn’t get her first win at the Winternationals Sunday evening. But the win was special because it was in front of family and friends who may not have had the chance to see her first victory last year outside Seattle. Courtney leads the Funny Car points heading to…
You could call NHRA Funny Car star Ron Capps one of the most diverse in all of drag racing. In addition to competing for several Funny Car titles to the last rounds of the season, Capps has competed for wins on circle tracks paved and unpaved. Capps is a driver and he shares some of…
You might call NHRA Top Fuel driver Clay Millican one of the original Freaks. He made his first trip to The Freak Nation more than eleven years ago when he was the King of the International Hot Rod Association. He even did a little freestyle rapping after showing up with his own entourage. Millican didn’t…
Car and bike builder Jesse James can wear so many hats and he tried on a number of them Thursday with The Freaks at the Winternationals in Pomona. We’ve known James for more than ten years and had fun with him every time we got together. But Thursday was different. James was raw and unplugged,…
The Lucas Oil Drag Boat Racing Series can offer the most dramatic racing in motor sports especially in the Top Fuel category where the equipment used includes some of the same technology used on the NHRA Top Fuel dragsters. One of the most successful magicians in the drag boat category is Eddie Knox who was…
NHRA Top Fuel driver Larry Dixon is returning to the Top Fuel wars where he’s won three world championships. And Dixon is coming back to the battles with a Crew Chief, Lee Beard, who’s won three world titles of his own. This is a special team with new sponsorship Rapisarda Autosport International from Australia. Dixon…
The NHRA’s new Mopar Pro Stock team is made up of five Pro Stock championships including last years won by Allen Johnson. Joining Johnson this year is four-time champion Jeg Coughlin and Vincent Nobile. It has the promise of being a super team but that’s only on paper where they don’t do the real racing.…
2012 NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car Champion Jack Beckman is one of the quickest around, on and off the track. It’s why we like to have him in The Freak Nation. His quick wit means there’s always fun. And Thursday at the Winternationals in Pomona were no different. Beckman was ready with stories about his…
NHRA Funny Car driver Courtney Force is ready to improve on an excellent 2012 rookie season in which she finished fifth in points. Force is the daughter of 15-time Funny Car champion John Force. So funny car racing is sort of the family business. But that business is expanding now that her younger sister Brittany…
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