NHRA Top Fuel Reading Winner Antron Brown is undefeated in the NHRA’s Countdown to the Championship “playoffs.” He’s the first ever to win the first three events of the Countdown. That’s 12 straight rounds of racing. He turned up to win this weekend with a pink driving suit and dragster to raise breast cancer awareness…
Lucas Oil Top Fuel driver Richie Crampton won the Top Fuel category at the Lucas Oil Nationals in Brainerd, Minnesota Sunday. Before talking about his personal best record run, Crampton gave The Freaks some new ideas on safety canopies in Top Fuel drag racing. He also talked about the perfect conditions Sunday at Brainerd where…
NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel winner in Denver was Steve Torrence Sunday afternoon. He interrupted his celebration to call The Freak Nation Sunday night. Denver is the start of the NHRA’s Western Swing in Denver, Seattle and Sonoma. Torrence explained the win and how he plans to spend his downtime in the Western Swing with…
NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel Bristol winner Richie Crampton found time for The Freak Nation Sunday night as he celebrated his victory this weekend. Crampton spent some time getting us up to speed on racing in the heat of summer in the Tennessee hills and the forests of the Northwest. This Australian is getting it…
Richie Crampton is the NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel winner in Las Vegas. Before he got his celebrating underway he stopped by The Freak Nation Sunday night. We talked about the win but we also spent a lot of time about the music that helped him close the deal in Las Vegas. And that playlist…
NHRA Mello Yello Phoenix Top Fuel winner Tony Schumacher got a big win Sunday over Doug Kalitta. It was another in a long line of wins for Schumacher over the Kalitta Camp. Tony also had some insight into why fans are crowding into the NHRA events and finding reasons to stay away from NASCAR in…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… We’re about to lose ourselves in March Madness and Fantasy Pools. That’s where NHRA Top Fuel driver J.R. Todd was last year, in front of the TV in his Indianapolis home when “I get a call and it’s Conrad (Kalitta). He asked…
Eight-time NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel champion Tony Schumacher will go into the 2015 season as the defending champion in Top Fuel. The category is among the tightest in drag racing. All 16 cars in the field are often running on the same tenth of a second. New names are in the field this year…
NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel driver J.R. Todd was sitting at home watching March Madness last spring when the phone ring. The next 24 hours was an odyssey you wouldn’t believe if you saw it in a film. Todd was out of the sport full-time at the beginning of the season. By the end of…
2012 NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel champion Antron Brown hired a “body man” to get ready for the 2015 Top Fuel season that starts this weekend in Pomona, California. Brown is a former track athlete and thought it proper to get a physical trainer to get him ready to deal with the violence of Top…
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