SpeedFreaks: Biggest Motorsports Show On The Planet

For nearly every one of our 23 years The Freaks have honored the best in motorsports for the past year. This year we remember our Race of the Year, our Driver/Rider of the Year and our Freak of the Year. We've honored the largest names in motorsport in the past from Travis Pastrana, to Ken Block, to The Daytona 500 and the Supercross Finals. This year we look back into our memories, the racing hea...

2023 NHRA Top Fuel Champion Doug Kalitta won his title in Pomona after six years of finishing runner-up in the category. But, now, Kalitta is the King of the Hill in the fastest class in all motorsport. Doug is a long time Friend of the Freaks so it was especially great to congratulate a friend on gaining a championship. Doug told us about halfway through the season he looked at his team and got t...

NASCAR Xfinity Las Vegas Winner Riley Herbst doubled down on that victory with a win in SCORE Baja 1000 (winning his class, and 8th overall), which spanned from La Paz to Ensenada, totaling 1,310 miles. Herbst and his father Troy Herbst fought their way to victory. Herbst drove the middle section while his champion father Troy started the race for the first time in six years while devoting his tim...

Open Wheel Showdown Promoter Davey Hamilton, Jr. came into The Freak Nation this week while he was painting walls and solving hundreds of issues getting ready for the richest pavement sprint car show, the Riskon360! Open Wheel Showdown for Winged Sprint Cars at the Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Aaron Willison of Langley, British Columbia, Canada led wire-to-wire for the $50,000 US payday,...

Guests: 2023 AMA Endurocross Champion Trystan Hart, Arrow McLaren IndyCar Driver David Malukas, 2023 TransAm Champion Christopher Dyson

2023 AMA Endurocross Champion Trystan Hart was on his way to Southern California in a friend's van when he took time to talk with The Freaks Sunday night. Saturday night Hart fought off challenges from three other riders to take the time. In the third moto of the night on MAVTV it was anyone's championship and Hart emerged at the end with the points and championship. Hart's appearance in The Freak...

Arrow McLaren IndyCar Driver David Malukas announced his move from Dale Coyne to Arrow McLaren in September. Now he's making a lifestyle change. He's raced all over the world but the 22-year-old has never lived outside Chicago. Now he's moving to Indianapolis to be at the center of IndyCar in America. This Malukas funny conversation is a reprise of David's visit to the Freak Nation last month. Lis...

2023 TransAm Champion Christopher Dyson has won three straight championships. He's recovering from a lengthy season and tough battle for the title. Dyson’s titles go with championship success he’s had in the American LeMans Series. But Dyson admitted to us that he was ready to leave road racing several years ago before he found a renewed passion racing 900 horsepower American sedans in Trans Am. H...

Guests: 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Champion Cole Custer, Five-Time Endurocross Series Champion Colton Haaker

2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Champion Cole Custer came into The Freak Nation Sunday night with some confidence after his championship moves in Phoenix last weekend. Custer is from Southern California and admits learning a lot at Irwindale Speedway near his home. Custer drives for former NASCAR champion Tony Stewart and remembers watching Stewart race when Cole was growing up. He also had a funny sto...

Five-Time Endurocross Series Champion Colton Haaker is close to a sixth championship as the series heads for the final round in Reno next weekend. Haaker is one of the best endurocross riders in the world. He went to the series when he career in Supercross and Motocross hit a wall. Obviously he found it to his liking! Endurocross sounds like racing through the wilderness even though it's in a clos...

Guests: 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Champion Ryan Blaney, Stewart Haas NASCAR Team Owner Tony Stewart, NASCAR Cup Series Driver Erik Jones, 2023 NASCAR Truck Series Champion Ben Rhodes

2023 NASCAR Cup Series Champion Ryan Blaney talked with reporters after his historic championship Sunday evening in Phoenix. He talked about a number of issues, really any question he was asked he answered candidly. Also appearing with Blaney was his team owner Roger Penske who talked about the emotional Blaney who was aggressive on the radio talking with his crew chief while chasing the champions...

Stewart Haas NASCAR Team Owner Tony Stewart was stunned talking with reporters about his Xfinity Championship driver Cole Custer. In fact, television cameras Saturday night showed images of Stewart looking dumbfounded watching video of the Custer moves on the racetrack. Tony explained what he was looking at and how being a team owner has some of the same emotions experienced by drivers in competit...

2023 NASCAR Truck Series Champion Ben Rhodes won his second championship Friday night in Phoenix. But some fans called the race a terrible example of NASCAR racing because of all the crashes and aggressive driving by drivers who took their aggression out on other competitors in the event. Rhodes held on for the title against a fast closing championship contender Grant Enfinger who finished split s...

NASCAR Cup Series Driver Erik Jones has driven for seven time champion Richard Petty for three years. Now he's about to drive for another seven-time champion, Jimmie Johnson, who's coming into the owner's box as a partner with Petty. The Freaks have found Jones to be one of the most well rounded drivers in all of motorsports. That included his new interest in sky diving and his growing passion for...

Guests: NHRA Las Vegas Funny Car Winner Robert Hight, 2023 TransAm Champion Christopher Dyson, NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Rider Angie Smith

NHRA Las Vegas Funny Car Winner Robert Hight returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night just after beating Bob Tasca in the final at the Nevada Nationals. Only 17 points separate Matt Hagan, Tasca and Hight, the top three in the points standing going into the final event in Pomona in two weeks. The win gives Hight some momentum as he goes for his fourth title since 2009. His titles have all come in...

NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Rider Angie Smith is recovering from a wicked accident at Worldwide Technology Raceway outside St. Louis four weekends ago. Among other things the Lucas Oil sponsored racer broke eight of her toes and required skin grafts, all of which she's recovering from now. The description of the accident is terrifying to hear. And the recovery will take considerable effort on her pa...

2023 TransAm Champion Christopher Dyson returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night after his third straight title. Dyson goes to the final event of the season at Circuit of the Americas in Texas next weekend, his championship already in hand. Dyson's titles goes with championship success he's had in the American LeMans Series. But Dyson admitted to us that he was ready to leave road racing several...

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2023 IMSA TCR Champion Robert Wickens returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night. Wickens suffered spinal injuries in an IndyCar crash five years ago, injuries that left him paralyzed from the waist down. The 33-year-old suffered spinal cord injuries when his car was launched into a barrier at the start of the IndyCar race at Pocono Raceway on August 19th, 2018. Wickens' earned his first series cha...

NHRA Texas Pro Stock Winner Erica Enders, a five-time Pro Stock drag racing champion, returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night. Her win in Texas gave her 50 wins in the NHRA, most for a woman ever, and made her the most successful female driver in motorsports. Enders, in fact, is 85 points op top of the 2023 Pro Stock driver's points with two events left in the season. She's one of the favorites...

IndyCar Driver David Malukas can't stop smiling as you'll see in this visit to The Freak Nation. Malukas is moving to Arrow McLaren, one of the strongest teams in IndyCar. That takes effect next season and from what Malukas is saying, the meetings have started already. Malukas has visited with Kenny Sargent and Crash Gladys several times at race tracks around the nation. This visit was no differen...

Guests: NASCAR Roval Cup Winner AJ Allmendinger, NHRA Texas Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan & Top Fuel Winner Leah Pruett, NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car Champion Doug Gordon