NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Martinsville winner Darrell Wallace, Jr. made history Saturday becoming only the second African American driver to win a NASCAR national touring series race. He follows in the legendary footsteps of Wendell Scott who won today’s equivalent of a Sprint Cup race in Jacksonville in 1963. Wallace was emotional trying to…
R.J. Anderson missed on his Pro-Lite championship but he did get a Pro-Lite win at Lake Elsinore Saturday in the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series. Anderson is another regular in The Freak Nation. This time, however, he did give us some insight into head injuries in racing including his own unfortunate concussion that should have…
Legendary drag racer John Force came into The Freak Nation Sunday night just hours after winning his 16th NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Funny Car title. Force is a regular in The Freak Nation nearly as much as he’s a regular in Victory Circle. He talked about his win and his renewed effort to get…
Newly crowned 2013 IndyCar champion Scott Dixon stepped from the IndyCar season ending banquet in Hollywood Sunday night to talk with The Freaks. It was just a few hours from the season ending MAVTV 500 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana where Dixon won his third IndyCar title. We got a chance to celebrate with…
Three-time American Le Mans Series GT champion Patrick Long took timeout from the ALMS banquet Sunday night to return to The Freak Nation. And the conversation was worth it for all of us. The two-time Le Mans winner plans to take his Porsche factory driver talents to off-road racing next month. He has a ride…
NASCAR Sprint Cup and Chase for the Championship driver Kevin Harvick is always a great conversation especially when that chat covers all the bases between college football, former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and his wife DeLana. Wait’ll you hear a side of Kevin Harvick you seldom get a chance to hear and only on…
NHRA Mello Yellow Drag Racing Top Fuel driver Brittany Force is a candidate for Rookie-of-the-Year in the NHRA. She’s also getting faster at the end of her first year in the series. The Freaks talked with Brittany about a number of things including her off-the-track charity work and the strange things her father John Force…
USA Today Motorsports Writer Nate Ryan dove into the Travis Kvapil arrest this weekend: “Should NASCAR have allowed Kvapil to race this weekend after his arrest for domestic violence?” Many were asking that question including The Freaks. What’s going on in NASCAR and will there be changes as drivers are facing problems over their off-the-track…
Monday AM Update on Dario Franchitti: Following the events of the last lap of the Grand Prix of Houston IZOD IndyCar Series race on Sunday, Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver Dario Franchitti was admitted awake and alert to Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in Houston for a concussion, two spinal fractures and a fracture to…
ESPN Motorsports Writer John Oreovicz was in Houston when three-time Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti crash heavily at the end of the IndyCar race Sunday. Oreovicz has been an IndyCar analyst for many years. He has valuable ideas of how the series could make changes that could increase track safety. We learned a bit of…
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