NASCAR Driver Riley Herbst announced this week that he’d spend the 2021 season and beyond with Stewart Haas Racing, one of the most successful programs in stock car racing. Herbst is from a very successful off-road racing family but his move to pavement racing caught some in the family business by surprise. But Riley’s success…
Crandon Raceway 50th Anniversary Pro2 Winner Jerett Brooks returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night after his historic victory. Crandon is one of the most important racing venues in the off-road world. Brooks’ win earned him the Pro2 World Championship for 2019. He was quick to explain the importance of the win and the racing…
ARCA Michigan Winner Sheldon Creed is making the transition from Stadium Trucks and off-road racing to get his first win in ARCA this weekend in Michigan on General Tires. Creed has raced all over the world from Baja to Australia but the win in Michigan might be a turn to the road where he wants…
2015 Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series Pro Lite Unlimited Champion RJ Anderson is a longtime Friend of the Freaks. He won the Pro Lite Unlimited Championship last year and backed that up with a CLOSE finish in Saturday night’s Finals. This could mean Anderson is ready to take his titles and step up in class…
General Tire Off-Road Driver Jerry Zaiden surprised The Freaks Sunday night when he talked about how the off-road community is actually leaving the desert better off than it finds it. That’s a long way from the perception of many. Zaiden broke several stereotypes while talking about how he’ll attack next weekend’s Mint 400 after finishing…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… It dawned on me this weekend that a problem with marketing certain motorsports is the wonder of it all. It’s just gone today. I remember where I was when I heard the results of the first Baja 1000 down the peninsula to…
Loan-Mart off-road racing driver Ryan Beat ran three classes last year from Pro Lite to Pro 2 to Pro 4 but this year he’s concentrating on one category and he’s doubled down on running his own team. Beat said he likes the idea of making his own decisions and running his own Pro Lite team.…
It’s rare that you get a driver to regularly drive a Monster Truck and off-road Pro 4 truck in the same beason. Todd LeDuc does it on the same weekend, even the same day as he did more than once this weekend. But LeDuc is not your average Freak! Off-road racing is the Le Duc…
Loan-Mart/Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series driver R.J. Anderson is becoming a real Friend of The Freaks. He’s been on the show several times and always brings some great attitude and conversation. This weekend, though, he brought The Freaks to his pits at the LOORRS opener in Chandler, Arizona. Anderson proved to be a great a…
Mikey Childress (and, yes, he’s a distant cousin to NASCAR owner Richard Childress) has won the Mint 400 on a motorcycle but he has problems Saturday in his Class 1500 buggy. Childress and team owner Travis Chase visited with The Freaks Friday before the Mint 400 started. They were part of the General Tire Mint…
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