Episodes
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Darrell Wallace, Jr. Puts An Historic Win in Perspective
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Martinsville winner Darrell Wallace, Jr. made history Saturday becoming only the second African American driver to win a NASCAR national touring series race. He follows in the legendary footsteps of Wendell Scott who won today's equivalent of a Sprint Cup race in...
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Erica Enders-Stevens Wins with The Right Partner
NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Pro Stock St. Louis winner Erica Enders-Stevens might be the biggest story in motor racing. Her win came at the track where she signed her first professional contract. It also vaulted her to fourth in the NHRA's Countdown to the Championship playoffs with three rounds...
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Simon Pagenaud on Baltimore, Winning & Championship Efforts
IndyCar Baltimore winner Simon Pagenaud has been a visitor in The Freak Nation many times including his visits as a sports car driver. But his success in IndyCar finds him third in the championship with a chance at the title with three races left at two venues in Houston and Fontana. Pagenaud can...
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Alexis Dejoria Campaigns for Shootout Support
NHRA Funny Car driver Alexis Dejoria is a long-time Friend of the Freaks who's proving to be a force in Funny Car racing even though she's yet to win a race. But, given that, Dejoria is asking for fan support to get into a special Funny Car shootout next weekend at the U.S. Nationals. In short,...
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Jordan Taylor on Kansas, Music Videos & Mergers
Grand-Am Rolex DP Kansas winner Jordan Taylor has been knocking 'em crazy on the racetrack this year. The win Saturday night in Kansas moved Jordan and his teammate Max Angelelli into first place in a tight race for the Rolex DP title. But in order to get that win Taylor had to hold off one of…
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Damion Gardner: The World's Fastest Sprint Car Driver
Damion Gardner has won championships on USAC short tracks in a sprint car. But wait'll you hear what he made of the idea to become The World's Fastest Sprint Car Driver. He not only went to Bonneville to grab the title, he spun in circles at the very idea! It's a great story. Listen...
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Garrick Freitas on Off-Road, Skid Marks & Grabbers
2012 Las Vegas to Reno Off-Road Race winner Garrick Freitas will be defending that victory this week in the 2013 edition of the race. Freitas is a General Tire driver who also farms and has fun doing it all. Freitas has been in The Freak Nation before, especially when he runs in the Mint 400....
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Charlie Kimball Diabetes, Competition & Victory
Charlie Kimball is the fourth IndyCar driver to get his first win of the year. It came Sunday at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Kimball dominated the race but the headline now is how he overcame his Type 1 Diabetes to get the win. Let's say the race wasn't the only battle going on inside his race…
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Scott Dixon on Tough Driving, Athletes & Athletic Racing
IndyCar driver Scott Dixon is on one of the great streaks in open-wheel racing. He's won the last three rounds of the Izod IndyCar series in Pocono and both sides of the Toronto doubleheader. That leaves him second in the 2013 championship with the next race coming at Mid-Ohio August 4th. Dixon…
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Adam Carolla on Patriots, Rams and Film Funding
Comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla came into The Freak Nation this week to talk about a number of issues. That's the only way you can talk wtih Carolla! On his way to talking about breakthrough ways to fund new films, Carolla touched on the New England Patriots and his own favorite team, The St....
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Joao Barbosa on Closing on a Championship
Joad Barbosa and co-driver Christian Fittipaldi won their second straight race in the Grand-Am Rolex Daytona Prototype series. The win has allowed them to make up dramatic points in the 2013 championship season. We also talked with Barbosa about his teammate's near collapse after the intense race...
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Joao Barbosa on Wins, Kids & Scared Wives
Grand-Am Rolex Daytona Prototype Mid-Ohio winner Joao Barbosa took time from his preparations to return to Portugal Sunday to talk with The Freaks. His win Saturday with Action Express teammate Christian Fittipaldi put him fifth in Rolex DP points. And it followed a second in Detroit indicating a...
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John Edwards on Driving Excellence Back in the USA
Grand-Am driver John Edwards is one of the hottest drivers in the Rolex GT and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge series. Edwards, in fact, is one of only four drivers in history to win both a Rolex and CTSCC race on the say day. The Freaks took the time to ask the Stevenson Motorsports driver...
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Matt Hagan on Rolex Watches & Rap
NHRA Englishtown Funny Car winner Matt Hagan is a regular visitor to The Freak Nation. we usually talk about his farming duties in Virginia. But Sunday night we went different places including the "cheap" Rolex watch he wears and the Rap music he listens to. Who would have thought a drag racing...
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Jordan Taylor is Beastie When He Wins
Grand-Am Detroit Winner Jordan Taylor has taken over the Rolex Daytona Prototype points lead with his teammate Max Angelelli. But leave it to The Freaks to spend several minutes talking with Taylor about his new video featuring music from the Beastie Boys. Jordan's first video, Good Vibrations…
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Tristan Vautier, A "Rook" with an American Viewpoint
Indy 500 rookie Tristan Vautier is from the Lucas Oil Schmidt Peterson Racing team. He qualified at the back of the Indy 500 but he has some front ideas for people who want to pigeon hole him into being a French driver. Vautier also explains how he'll "chill" between now and Friday when Indy 500...
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A.J. Allmendinger on Rookie, Racing & Rest
NASCAR Sprint Cup driver A.J. Allmendinger, a former winner in the Champ Car open-wheel series, is back in that form of racing with a ride in the Indy 500 with Penske Racing. Allmendinger, though, with all his success in Champ Car is a rookie at The 500 so he had to pass his rookie tests this...
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Clint Bowyer on Clint, Clocks & Ducks
NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Clint Bowyer finished second in the 2012 points but he is often first in the hearts of The Freaks. This is one of those times when Bowyer shows up to talk about grandfather clocks middle fingers and ducks. It takes an effort to combine all those in the conversation of a...
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Scott Speed Rallies Behind Global Rallycross
Former F1 driver Scott Speed has made a big jump in his career. A break from NASCAR wound up in a Brazilian jungle where Speed won the first round of the 2013 Global Rallycross Championship. That allowed him to remove something from his personal Bucket List: winning an X Games Gold Medal. So will...
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The Soul of Bob Vandergriff from Houston
NHRA Mello Yello Houston Top Fuel winner Bob Vandergriff was introduced with some country music questions. But Vandergriff used some 8000 horsepower experience to turn The Freak Nation upside down. You had to be there! No! Wait! You can be there!! Here's Bob Vandergriff after some free lancing…
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Spencer Massey on Winning & Talking to Engines
NHRA Charlotte Top Fuel winner Spencer Massey delayed his celebration Sunday night to talk with The Freaks. And while he was at it, he explained to The Freaks how he's a Machine full of procedures that include talking to his Top Fuel engine before runs. He calls the engine Billy. You have to hear...
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Scott Pruett on Mergers & Designated Drivers
Grand-Am Rolex Daytona Prototype Road Atlanta winner Scott Pruett had a few minutes to think about his 40th DP win Sunday night. Good thing he celebrated the win before he came into The Freak Nation. Because celebrating legendary wins isn't what The Freaks do best. However we are pretty good at...
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Carl Edwards on Rides, Arms & Wedgies
NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Carl Edwards finished third in the Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway Saturday night. The Freaks caught up with him right after the race during a special broadcast on our Dallas affiliate 105.3 FM. You can often catch Edwards when he's ready to talk candidly and Saturday...
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Jordan Taylor on Keeping It All In The Family
Grand-Am Rolex Series winner Jordan Taylor got his first Daytona Prototype win Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park. So when he came into The Freak Nation to talk about it we naturally talked about a number of other things including a survey of who's fastest in Jordan's family, his championship...
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Cruz Pedregon on Dirt & Bloomin' Onions
NHRA Funny Car Las Vegas winner Cruz Pedregon delayed his celebration dinner to talk with The Freaks Sunday night. And since Pedregon had to beat John Force's daughter Courtney to get the win we talked about John instead of the problems Cruz had to overcome to even make the run against Courtney.…
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Travis Pastrana on Dirt, Sponsors & Kids
NASCAR driver Travis Pastrana has been an Action Sports icon worldwide for most of his life. But all of his success up to now has been on dirt including four Rally America national rally championships to Freestyle Motorcross and Supercross. Now Travis is having to relearn all of his competitive...
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Kent Kroeker and The Mills Brothers in Vegas
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...
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Childress and Zaiden Birthing Something Big
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...
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Riley & Johnson are Racers AND Marketers
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...
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Justin Lofton & Garrick Freitas on Fun, Feathers & Freaks
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…
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Ray Griffith on Off-Road, Country & Ring Tones
Team General Tire's Ray Griffith runs a full Best In The Desert schedule as well as the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series short course schedule. He's so committed he published an Instragram image that showed him passed out sleeping with an airgun in his hand working on his off-road buggy. When we...
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Steve Alexander Loves the Mint & Feathers
General Tire Class 5000 Steve driver Alexander gets emotional when he talks about winning the Mint 400. When he was a teenager he vowed he'd do it one day and drew a picture for inspiration. Now that picture is beside the trophy he won after getting that win several years ago. But Team GT's Steve...
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Justin Lofton Explains The Mint & Leaking Buggies
General Tire off-road driver Justin Lofton is a welcome visitor into The Freak Nation especially as he prepares for next weekend's General Tire Mint 400 in Las Vegas. Lofton also races in NASCAR when he's not off-road racing so he has a unique perspective on racing through rocks as well as around...
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Mikey Childress on The Mission, The Mint & The Mike
General Tire off-road racing driver Mikey Childress has broken nearly four dozen bones in his body. But he says the first major medical issue happened long before he even learned to drive. That was when he hooked his "wagon" to a car and held on. He paid with an internal organ. Childress has so...
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Brad Keselowski on Bradley and Things Off Track
2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski is a good Friend of the Freaks. He's been a visitor to The Freak Nation since he was getting his championship career underway in the Nationwide Series. But he had a long visit with Crash Gladys over the weekend in Phoenix and he introduced us to...
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If A.J. Allmendinger was In Charge...
NASCAR Sprint Cup star A.J. Allmendinger may be at a crossroads in his career. He has a few rides lined up in NASCAR but last week he got an IndyCar test from the Penske Racing Team, one of the two most successful programs in IndyCar. Allmendinger isn't talking about any full-time plans in…
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Kyle Busch on Winning While a Team Owner
NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Kyle Busch owns teams in the Nationwide and Camping World Truck series. Yet he finds time to win as a Sprint Cup driver. Busch is considered one of the fastest drivers in NASCAR and he has wins in all three series to prove it. So guess what The Freaks talk about when Kyle...
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Dale Earnhardt, Jr. on Whiskey River, the Gen 6 Racecar & Mom
NASCAR's Most Popular Driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. came into The Freak Nation Sunday night to talk about a host of issues from the Generation 6 Sprint Cup car to his Whiskey River property to his mother's favorite adult beverage to NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski. As you can imagine it…
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Danica Patrick on Winning Daytona 500 Pole
2013 Daytona 500 Top Qualifier Danica Patrick wrote another motor racing chapter Sunday when she became the first woman to win the Pole in a NASCAR Sprint Cup race. Patrick has been a history maker throughout her ground-breaking career. But this will set her apart when the race starts next…
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Clay Millican Makes a Freak Reprise in Pomona
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.…
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Larry Dixon on a Return to the Championship Wars
NHRA Top Fuel driver Larry Dixon is returning to the Top Fuel wars where he's won three world championships. And Dixon is coming back to the battles with a Crew Chief, Lee Beard, who's won three world titles of his own. This is a special team with new sponsorship Rapisarda Autosport International...
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Morgan Lucas & Brandon Bernstein Plan A Hairy Pomona
NHRA Top Fuel teammates Morgan Lucas and Brandon Bernstein are more than Friends of the Freaks, they're nearly members of The Freaks. Certainly they're citizens of The Freak Nation. So when we talked with them Thursday at the Winternationals in Pomona we weren't surprised when the conversation…
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Alexis Dejoria on New Life, Season & Marriage
NHRA Funny Car driver Alexis Dejoria is returning to the Mello Yellow Drag Racing Series this year with a year's worth of experience under her belt. She's determined to get her first win this year after just missing the playoffs in her rookie season last year. But Dejoria had some bigger news…
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Matt Hagan on a "Comeback" Season in 2013
2011 NHRA Funny Car champion Matt Hagan didn't have a great post championship season in 2012. He didn't win any events and failed to get into the NHRA championship playoffs. But he came into the Freak Nation Thursday at the Winternationals in Pomona with renewed enthusiasm for a "comeback" year…
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Townsend Bell on Prancing Horses & Bucket Lists
IndyCar driver Townsend Bell wears many hats in his career now. He does television for NBC Sports at the IndyCar events and he races in the American Le Mans Series with Alex Job Racing. It's that hat that had Bell in all smiles Sunday night. It was announced this week that Bell was part of the…
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Joey Saldana on Capturing Outlaws
World of Outlaws driver Joey Saldana is one of the most successful in Outlaw history if you look at the number of wins in his career. But Saldana has never won an Outlaw championship. He has a new team this season and he's looking to correct all that. He talked with The Freaks Sunday night and…
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Ryan Villopoto on Supercross Wins, Championships & Conditioning
Double Supercross champion Ryan Villopoto is gettig his 2013 season rolling with his second straight win in Oakland Saturday night. Villopoto came into The Freak Nation Sunday night to analyze his win and the season that's turning around after a slow start. Villopoto says he's ready for another...
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Dario Franchitti & Jamie McMurray on Racing & Krispy Kreme
Three-time Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti was a teammate with 2010 Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray at the Rolex 24 last weekend. Franchitti and McMurray are also teammates at the Chip Ganassi Racing stables. So, in the midst of all this, Dario and Jamie have a friendship outside the race car...
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Sebastien Bourdais Like You've Never Heard Him
When Sebastien Bourdais was the hottest he ripped off four consecutive ChampCar championships in American open-wheel. After a stint in F1 he's fighting to get back to that championship form racing in IndyCar and Grand-Am this weekend at the Rolex 24. But what we enjoy most about Bourdais is his...
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