2024 Rolex 24-Hour Winner Dane Cameron stepped away from celebrating to talk with The Freaks Sunday night. Cameron drove with Felipe Nasr, Josef Newgarden, and Matt Campbell to get the dramatic win after a fate changing pit stop by the Team Penske Pit Crew Team. Nasr was driving at the end. He came in to…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Maybe 20 years ago I was sitting in a hauler with sports car legend Bob Snodgrass of Brumos Racing. I brought up the myth of sports car racing being a wine and cheese community. He laughed so hard, we had to pause for…
2024 Rolex 24 Top Qualifier Pipo Derani led a parade of nine GTP teams that beat the Daytona 24 Hour track record during Sunday’s qualifying. Derani drives a Cadillac prototype for Action Express Racing in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and is an overall winner of the 2016 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona and the 2016,…
IMSA President John Doonan is a longtime Friend of the Freaks, even when he was at Mazda before he took over IMSA. Doonan added to his portfolio last summer when he oversaw the Garage 56 program that saw a modified NASCAR Cup Series Chevy Camaro run in the LeMans 24 Hour race in France. The…
2023 Rolex 24 Pole Sitter Tom Blomquist came into The Freak Nation Sunday minutes after his fastest qualifying lap at Daytona International Speedway. Blomquist, did the lap in a Michael Shank Racing Acura GTP race car. It’s one of the newest GTP racers, the highly sophisticated race machines in IMSA, a rolling computer that will…
Two-time Formula One Champion Fernando Alonso won his Formula One titles in 2005 and 2006. That’s when his fan base exploded all over the world and especially in Japan. Alonso came into The Freak Nation in 2018 at the Daytona 24 Hour. He won a year later with Wayne Taylor Racing. The Freaks had fun…
2022 Rolex 24 Winner Simon Pagenaud was part of a driving team at Meyer Shank Racing that included Helio Castroneves, Tom Blomquist & Oliver Jarvis. The team battled throughout the race especially in the last hour when Helio Castroneves got in the car and had to fight off Ricky Taylor for the win. It was…
2022 Rolex 24 LMP3 Winner Gar Robinson dominates the LMP3 category that made its debut last season. He won the first race at Daytona, the 2021 LMP3 championship and all but one of the races in between those two headlines. Robinson, in fact, defended his 2021 class win at the Rolex. Obviously he’s happy with…
2021 Rolex 24 at Daytona Winner Felipe Albuquerque was in The Freak Nation shortly after his historic win. Albuquerque drove with Alexander Rossi, Helio Castroneves and Ricky Taylor on their way to Wayne Taylor Racing’s third straight win in the Rolex 24. The win came dramatically when a former Wayne Taylor Racing driver was closing…
20-time Rolex 24 Winner Andy Lally is a longtime Friend of the Freaks. His wins in the Rolex 24 started when The Freaks started, more than 20 years ago. Lally is the winningest active IMSA driver in the Rolex 24. IN fact, he talked about the eight Rolex watches he’s won in the race and…
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