NHRA Pomona Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan is a regular in The Freak Nation. His win Sunday at the Lucas Oil Winternationals matches a longstanding record. Not since Don Prudhomme has anyone won Pomona two years in a row as the fastest qualifier in Funny Car. Hagan has parlayed championships from wins like this. Can…
2016 NHRA Mello Yello Winternationals Funny Car Winner Ron Capps just came from the Pomona Winner Circle festivities when he stepped into The Freak Nation to talk with some friends. Capps admitted he had more than 120 text message in his phone after winning the Winternationals. Some of those message pushed the idea that this…
Eight-time NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel Champion Tony Schumacher won his last championship in 2014. So he’s ready to reclaim what he believes is rightly his title. He did that like he normally does, with a military training regimin that befits his 18 year relationship with the U.S. Army. Tony is so committed to a…
Maybe the greatest drag racer of all time, John Force, didn’t have an off-season according to him. He spent the weeks figuring out how to catch up with the competition. He had to find the money to keep up with the competition. And, apparently, he was successful because the Force Funny Cars and Top Fuel…
Fast Jack Beckman, the 2012 NHRA Funny Car champion, had a great time during the off-season relaxing, surfing and getting his mind ready for the start of the season this weekend at the Winternationals in Pomona. Fast Jack held up his end of the nickname last season setting a Funny Car record at 3.912 at…
NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel driver JR Todd was a career best second in the 2014 points chase. He was in the Countdown in 2015 with a win in Seattle. All of this raised Todd’s stature with a team sponsor. It put him on the road learning about the pavement industry. That’s in between some…
NHRA Pomona Pro Stock winner Jason Line is another Friend of the Freaks who had a special mission in Pomona last weekend. His teammate Greg Anderson couldn’t be at the event because he was back at home undergoing a pretty serious medical procedure. That made the win all the more special with Line eventually dedicating…
NHRA Pomona Funny Car winner Courtney Force didn’t get her first win at the Winternationals Sunday evening. But the win was special because it was in front of family and friends who may not have had the chance to see her first victory last year outside Seattle. Courtney leads the Funny Car points heading to…
You could call NHRA Funny Car star Ron Capps one of the most diverse in all of drag racing. In addition to competing for several Funny Car titles to the last rounds of the season, Capps has competed for wins on circle tracks paved and unpaved. Capps is a driver and he shares some of…
You might call NHRA Top Fuel driver Clay Millican one of the original Freaks. He made his first trip to The Freak Nation more than eleven years ago when he was the King of the International Hot Rod Association. He even did a little freestyle rapping after showing up with his own entourage. Millican didn’t…
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