NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car driver Courtney Force starts the opening weekend of the season with the confidence that her John Force Racing Team had her the fastest of all at preseason testing last week. Courtney has won races – eight in her young career – and finished sixth in the Funny Car standings last…
NHRA Funny Car driver Jack Beckman is a favorite in The Freak Nation. His background is teaching people to get their drag racing licenses so he has considerable knowledge on what makes you fast in a four second Funny Car. Beckman has 24 career wins in the NHRA including a 2012 Funny Car championship. He…
NHRA drag racer JR Tofdd is leaving the Top Fuel ranks to run a Funny Car for Kalitta Motorsports in 2017. Todd has been with Kalitta since March of 2014 and has battled all the way to second in the Top Fuel standings in 2014 and fourth last season. In addition, his resume includes being…
NHRA Funny Car pilot Matt Hagan is one of the fastest drivers in the class. He has two championships in 2011 and 2014 to back up his 21 wins since he entered the category in 2009. But Hagan has something that he’ll be overcoming in the 2017 season, the death of his brother over the…
NHRA Top Fuel driver Tony Schumacher is one of the best to ever race in the category. He has a record 82 wins under his belt going into the 2017 season this weekend in Pomona. Those wins built eight championships in the category including six in a row from 2004-2009. But with all that behind…
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…
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