Troy Coughlin, Jr. moves from the sportsmen and Pro Mod categories of drag racing to the fastest cars on the planet in 2017. Coughlin will be in a sub-four second Top Fuel dragster for Kalitta Motorsports for the entire season. Coughlin is the son of two-time Pro Mod champion Troy Sr. There are even people…
16-time NHRA Funny Car Champion John Force visited The freak Nation this week to pound the drum pretty hard after his John Force Racing Funny Car team put down some of the fastest times in the NHRA pre-season testing. The opening of the NHRA drag racing season opens next weekend in Pomona. But before the…
It was a storybook finish to a dramatic race in the rain and cold and wheel-to-wheel bullring fierce battles. Wayne Taylor Racing with Ricky & Jordan Taylor, Max Angelelli and Jeff Gordon won the Rolex 24 at Daytona as a going away present for Max who said he’s leaving the driver’s side of the sport.…
Ford Racing followed up it’s win at the Le Mans 24 Hours last June with another 24 hour win Sunday afternoon in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Joey Hand and Dirk Mueller took Sebastian Bourdais to the GTLM Victory Circle after 24 hours of rain, cold and wheel-to-wheel racing twice around the clock. Bourdais and…
Michael Shank Racing driver Katherine Legge got out of her GTD category Acura NSX GT3 and minutes later was in The Freak Nation for a quick few minutes. To say the least, Legge was exhausted but rose to the occasion overcoming all the “Billys” that might have been in her way. Legge turned the car…
Max Angelelli ran his stints in the Rolex 24 at Daytona Saturday like it was his last race, largely because it was. He plans on leaving his driving duties at Wayne Taylor Racing where he’s done a bit of everything in the past 15 or so years. He’s driven the WTR machinery to victory lanes.…
2004 Indy 500 champion Buddy Rice is a long-time Friend of the Freaks. And after his first stint in the Rolex 24 at Daytona Buddy stopped by The Freak Nation to share some recent experiences and his new plans for IMSA this year with his Gas Money Energy Drink Prototype Challenge. Rice will be in…
Action Express driver Dane Cameron is on a championship roll of late. In 2014 he won a GT title. He was third in 2015 racing a prototype. Then he won the Prototype championship last year with Eric Curran. So when Cameron came into The Freak Nation at the Rolex 24 at Daytona he brought some…
Four time IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti is the Grand Marshall of the 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona. That means he was jumping around the Daytona International Freeway through the early stages of the classic race. But he found time to visit with The Freaks thanks to Continental Tire. He was able to give us some…
Memo Gidley returned to the Rolex 24 at Daytona for the first time since a violent crash nearly took his life in 2014 during the race. Gidley was hospitalized and underwent three surgeries in the first five days after the crash. But after long, hard work Gidley is recovered enough to race his shifter kart…
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