Driver and television host Townsend Bell opened the Rolex 24 for O’Gara Motorsport taking the Lamborghini GT3 from ninth to first in the GTD race. He visited with The Freaks before retiring for a meal and rest. He surprised us, though, describing what it felt like to watch faster GT cars compete ahead of him.…
The Freaks always find Friends at the Rolex 24 at Daytona. That includes 2015 IndyCar champion Scott Dixon and defending Rolex 24 winner Kyle Larson. They were in the Continental Tire Media Suite before the 24 Hour and the conversation touched on lots of things including how NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Larson might try open…
2004 IndyCar champion Tony Kanaan is at this year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona as the defending race winner. He was in the Continental Tire Media Suite before the 24 Hour. He won last year with Scott Dixon, Kyle Larson and Jamie McMurray. They’ll be in the car again this year. But Kanaan is also a…
NASCAR driver Julie Landauer won a NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Championship in 2015 at Motor Mile Speedway in Virginia. That opened the door for a major ride in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series with Bill McAnally Racing, the defending champions in the K&N Pro Series West. Landauer has an extensive resume of racing that includes…
Rico Abreu won his second straight Chili Bowl Nationals title Saturday nigh, only the second driver to ever win back-to-back titles. (Kevin Swindell was the other.) Abreu’s win comes before he gets into a Thorsport NASCAR truck to compete full time in 2016. Rico came into The Freak Nation Sunday night after a celebratory dinner…
Anaheim One Supercross Winner Jason Anderson got his first win in the Supercross series Saturday night. But it was also the first factory win for Husqvarna, the motorcycle brand that Anderson rides. Anderson’s win was a long time coming. He was second at Anaheim One last season and he finished seventh in the 2015 points.…
2011 ALMS P1 Champion Chris Dyson has a long and distinguished career in sports car racing. But this weekend he’ll be running in a USAC Midget racer in the Chili Bowl. It’s a massive change in racing equipment. For the past two years Dyson raced a GT3 Bentley Continental getting a win last year at…
Four-Time Supercross Champion James Stewart is returning to the AMA series after a 16 month suspension. His return in Anaheim Saturday night, though, was short lived. Another rider crashed into him knocking him unconscious. He’ll now face concussion protocol that he must pass before he can race again. But before Anaheim One we talked with…
NASCAR Sprint Cup Driver Kasey Kahne stopped in Phoenix last week to talk with the Freaks while he promoted the upcoming Sprint Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway in March. Kahne has been a longtime Friend of the Freaks. so he was comfortable talking about his family, his kids and his Hendrick Motorsports contract…
Legendary heavy metal frontman Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead is dead at the age of 70. An announcement was made Monday evening on the official Facebook page for the British band. It read in part: “There is no easy way to say this…our mighty, noble friend Lemmy passed away today after a short battle with an…
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