This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. The ongoing Covid pandemic will play havoc with this year’s motor racing season just like last year. That’s when races were being canceled and sponsors dancing on the heads of pins because fan attendance was challenged everywhere. Now, IndyCar is playing roulette with…
2020 Lucas Oil Motocross 450cc Champion Zach Osborne takes his outdoor motocross championship into the Supercross season that starts in Houston, Texas January 16th, next Saturday. The 2020 Supercross season started on a down note for Osborne who broke some ribs, his wrist, fractured five vertebrae, and bruised his lungs while practicing before Atlanta. But…
USAC Midget & Chili Bowl Driver Landon Simon was in The Freak Nation Sunday night before he hunkers down in Tulsa for the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals. It’s the craziest week in racing where more than 300 drivers gather in a Tulsa shed to race USAC Midget race cars around a dirt track sometimes…
Last year The Freaks spent more than an hour with maybe the greatest drag racer ever, 16-time Funny Car champion John Force. Force has been a Friend of the Freaks for every one of our 20 years. So this visit was like Old Home Week for all of us. A conversation with John is fun…
NASCAR Team Owner David Gilliland returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night. It was announced this week that Gilliland has formed a new partnership with businessman and former NHRA drag racer Johnny Gray to form David Gilliland Racing. The team will remain based in Mooresville, N.C., competing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, ARCA…
NBC Sports Motorsports Analyst Rutledge Wood returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night to talk about Cruisin’ The Continental U.S. a national road trip with Continental Tire. Wood made the trip with sportscar driver Ryan Eversley in a supercar. And the two just cruised talking with and seeing anyone and anything interesting. Wood said much…
2016 IndyCar Champion Simon Pagenaud, winner of the 2019 Indy 500, is a long time Friend of the Freaks. So Simon’s visit was well accepted and enjoyed. While Pagenaud talked fun in the racing off-season he had some sadness at not being able to spend Christmas at home in Paris for the first time in…
2020 IMSA Endurance Champion Team Owner Wayne Taylor returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night in a chilled mood. Taylor was relaxing while talking with The Freaks about his championship season for Wayne Taylor Racing and for his sons Jordan and Ricky who won titles with other programs. Taylor’s team is going through some changes…
NASCAR Driver Riley Herbst announced this week that he’d spend the 2021 season and beyond with Stewart Haas Racing, one of the most successful programs in stock car racing. Herbst is from a very successful off-road racing family but his move to pavement racing caught some in the family business by surprise. But Riley’s success…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Watching the ceremony at the start of Sunday’s Formula One race in Abu Dhabi it hit me: what a shame it would be to see this year’s ceremonial calls for change be reduced to ritual in the future. 2020 has been full of…
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