Team GT/Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Driver Christopher Polvoorde was born a month after The Freak Nation’s birthdate. But he’s as much a champion in off-road racing as The Freaks are in broadcasting. Polvoorde was in The Freak Nation Sunday night with a number of laughs including the van he built with Ford that…
General Tire Team GT driver Mikey Childress won the Mint 400 on a motorcycle in 2006. That was the same year he won the Best in the Desert Open Pro Division championship. Childress is on a 1500 class buggy now but he’s aware of all the big technology that’s invaded off-road racing. And it’s needed…
General Tire Off-Road driver Harley Letner has won more than 15 class wins as a 1500 buggy racer. One of those wins came in January at the Best in the Desert Parker 425. Letner’s success in off-road racing goes back several generations. His grandfather actually got Harley involved in the sport. Letner explained how all…
The Freaks first met Jim Riley several years ago when he was an off-road sponsor with his Azunia Tequila brand. Riley, however, has grown into a driver in his own right. He helped found the Trophy Light class where he’s built a competitive machine to race against the guys he might even sponsor. Jim Riley…
General Tire Team GT driver C.J. Hutchins was teamed with Mike Childress in the 1500 Buggy Class at the Mint 400. But Hutchins gives nothing to anyone on the race course. He won the longest off-road race in the United States, The General Tire Vegas to Reno, in 2013. But in Las Vegas at the…
Kent Kroeker is a long-time Friend of the Freaks. He’s been on several of these Mint 400 celebrations. But this year he brought two new friends who fit the Freak Mold perfectly. Taylor and Nick Mills are brothers who race their own Class 6100 trucks at the Mint 400. But they also have a larger…
General Tire off-road drivers Mikey Childress and Jerry Zaiden are on the verge of launching something big. Zaiden is pushing to build a new class in off-road racing. He said the Mint 400 will include more than a dozen Class 6100 trucks, a new class designed to bring back high tech race machines like Trophy…
Several hats fit General Tire off-road drivers Jim Riley and Rick L. Johnson. Both have had success on the racetracks in the desert. Both have had success in business. Now both show us how they are successful marketing both those careers to their fans. Riley is the head man at Azunia tequila. And Johnson is…
The Freaks started taking them two at a time with Team GT off-road drivers Justin Lofton and Garrick Freitas. Both has a valued place in The Freak Nation. Lofton has been in as both an off-road driver and NASCAR truck series competitor. Garrick Freitas is featured in a General Tire commercial that plays regularly on…
Miss Mint 400 Taylor Cox was busy with General Tire Friday during the traditional tech inspection and parade of racing machines through vendor row. But Taylor took a few minutes to remember her own racing career which ended badly in someone’s front yard. She came by the passion honestly, though, Her Dad raced motorcycles when…
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