NHRA Seattle Funny Car Winner Tim Wilkerson returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night for the second time this season. His win in the Pacific Northwest kept points leader Matt Hagan from sweeping the Western Swing after Hagan’s win last week in Denver. Wilkerson took Hagan out in the first round. Wilkerson has some ideas…
NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Championship Couple Matt & Angie Smith returned to The Freak Nation. Kenny and Crash talked with the couple in Denver. Matt is a six time champion who’s won four of the last five titles. Angle wins events making them experts on competing against each other while traveling and raising a family.…
Formula Drift St. Louis Winner Odi Bakchis wears many hats when he’s in the drifting world. His suspension business goes around the world. His new drift team has drivers and crew that travel across America. But Bakchis explains how drift judging changes in different parts of the sport. Listen…
NHRA Denver Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night hours after his victory. The three-time NHRA Funny Car Champion won in 2011, 2014 and 2020. He’s also the points leader this season by a narrow margin over Ron Capps. Hagan has a strong season unfolding running for NASCAR legend Tony…
Six-Time NHRA Champion Kenny Bernstein won his championships in both Funny Car (4) and Top Fuel (2). He’s the first to go 300 MPH in drag racing. And he’s the first to win races as a tam owner in the NHRA, NASCAR and IndyCar. By any measure, Kenny Bernstein is a motorsports legend who shared…
NHRA Norwalk Top Fuel Winner Leah Pruett shared some very candid comments with Kenny and Crash. Leah learned how to drag race at Bandimere Speedway, the track where she ran on the final weekend of racing this week. Pruett’s confidence this season blossomed after her win in Norwalk, Ohio. She also had great memories about…
IndyCar Mid-Ohio Winner Alex Palou came into The Freak Nation minutes after his win Sunday. Palou has won three of the last four IndyCar races and leads the series by 110 points after nine of 17 races. Palou’s future is brighter than ever. Some have him going to F1 next year. He won’t talk about…
Lucas Oil Trans-Am Driver Tomy Drissi came into The Freak Nation Sunday night to celebrate the Fourth of July Holiday and the rainy weekend in Chicago whee NASCAR raced on a street course. Drissi races a Ford Mustang for Lucas Oil in the TransAm series. He’s third in the season standings, 105 points out of…
Legendary Drivers Richard Petty & Don Garlits talked with the Freaks many years ago. Petty talked about NASCAR’s future and the possibility of racing in Big Cities. We pulled that from our Freakin’ Flashback Files. And on Petty’s 86th birthday Sunday, we remembered Legendary Drag Racer Don Garlits telling us about how he considered Petty’s…
There were many stories written this week making Chicago the first NASCAR street ever. But Kenny Sargent covered one way back in September of 1999 in Los Angeles around the Los Angeles Coliseum parking lot. Some major names were in the NASCAR Southwest Tour race including Cup stars Kenny Irwin (pictured) and Ken Schrader. Listen…
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