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NHRA Texas Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan & Top Fuel Winner Leah Pruett closed out Sunday night with some history for Tony Stewart Racing. It was the first double winning weekend for the team that is only in its second year. Hagan is third in the Funny Car standings with only two events left in the NHRA season. Pruett is second. Both are within two round wins of first place with events in Las Vegas a...

NASCAR Roval Cup Winner AJ Allmendinger returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night after last week's victory. Allmendinger was emotional after his win, the first after his son was born last month. AJ talked about several things in connection with his Kaulig Racing NASCAR team. He's won Xfinity races with Kaulig now the Cup win was important as both AJ and the Kaulig organization make plans for cont...

NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car Champion Doug Gordon won his third title in the Top Alcohol category. He'd planned on 2023 being his last season as he will turn the seat over to his daughter Maddie in 2024. The Lucas Oil Racing driver is the first NHRA champion crowned in 2023 with two race weekends left on the NHRA calendar. It took officials a bit to determine the championship after Gordon won at the...

Guests: TransAm TA and TA2 VIR Winner Connor Zilisch, NHRA Worldwide Technology Raceway Top Fuel Winner Clay Millican, Lucas Oil Stabilizer Monster Truck Driver Cynthia Gauthier

TransAm TA and TA2 VIR Winner Connor Zilisch returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night. He'd spent the weekend making Trans Am history winning both the TA and TA2 category races at Virginia International Raceway. Zilisch is just 17-years-old and the first Trans Am driver to ever win two races in different classes in a single weekend. Zilisch is changing the future of motor racing even as we spoke...

Lucas Oil Stabilizer Monster Truck Driver Cynthia Gauthier is always fun when she comes into The Freak Nation. And there was a bit of news in this visit. Saturday Cynthia announced she was stepping out of her Monster Truck to take time off to have a baby. She told us she's 4 1/2 months pregnant and already has a driver lined up to replace her behind the wheel. She also talked about scheduling the...

NHRA Worldwide Technology Raceway Top Fuel Winner Clay Millican is another longtime Friend of the Freaks. It was great to visit with him after his victory last weekend. Millican drives for Rick Ware Racing, a team with entries in NASCAR, NHRA and other forms of motorsports. Millican says there are similarities to all the racing and Ware is proving it. Listen...

Guests: NHRA Worldwide Technology Raceway Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan, NHRA WWTR Pro Stock Winner Greg Anderson

NHRA St. Louis Pro Stock Winner Greg Anderson has been a Friend of the Freaks for a very long time. So we like it when he has success. Anderson is fourth in points 61 back from Matt Hartford in first. But if you listen to Greg talk, you'd think his only competition is five time champion Erica Enders. In fact, Anderson and Enders each have five championships are are battling to become the first to...

NHRA Worldwide Technology Raceway Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night after his big win. The stop in S. Louis was halfway through the NHRA's Championship Playoffs. Three down and three to go with Dallas, Las Vegas and Pomona still on the calendar. Hagan is fourth in the standings, 69 points back of leader Robert Hight. Hagan is a farmer in Virginia but he works ou...

Guests: NASCAR President Steve Phelps, NHRA Reading Top Fuel Winner Doug Kalitta, 2023 Indy NXT Champion Christian Rasmussen

NASCAR President Steve Phelps took some time recently to visit with Kenny and Crash while he was in Phoenix. And it was a refreshing conversation with a motorsports chieftain who answered all The Freaks questions and looked them in the eye while he did it. Not many in the sports industry, including those of the field of play and in the front offices, will be so candid. That made Phelps a refreshin...

2023 Indy NXT Champion Christian Rasmussen made his debut appearance in The Freak Nation Sunday. He's ready to make his move up to the major league of IndyCar with testing already underway for a ride next year. His NXT championship puts more than $800,000 in his pocket to help him make the move in his career. The Danish driver ha won at every run of the Road to Indy ladder. He's confident about wh...

NHRA Top Fuel driver Doug Kalitta stayed undefeated in the NHRA playoffs, picking up his second straight win on Sunday in Charlotte. He's now in the points lead for the first time in three years. NHRA Reading Top Fuel Winner Doug Kalitta checked several special boxes off his career list when he won at Reading a week ago ending nearly three years without a win. Kalitta finished second in the Top Fu...

Guests: 1999 NASCAR Cup Series Champion Dale Jarrett

1999 NASCAR Cup Series Champion Dale Jarrett visited with Kenny and Crash during a Phoenix visit to raise money for childhood cancer research. Jarrett no longer drive, instead he talks about drivers and driving as an analyst for NBC Sports. In addition to his Cup title in 1999, Jarrett also won the Daytona 500 three times in 1993, 1996 and 2000. That's why questions about racing at Daytona were ri...

Guests: NASCAR Kansas Winner Tyler Reddick, 2023 IndyCar Champion Alex Palou, 2021 NASCAR Cup Champion Kyle Larson

NASCAR Kansas Winner Tyler Reddick returned to The Freak Nation Sunday Night hours after his win in Kansas. The victory allows Reddick to move to the second round of the NASCAR Chase for the Championship Playoffs. The next race? It's Bristol Baby! On Dirt. Listen...

2023 IndyCar Champion Alex Palou was back in The Freak Nation Sunday night after finishing third in the season finale at Weathertech Raceway at Laguna Seca. Palou was starting his championship season celebrations that'll be tempered somewhat by an expectant baby due in November. Listen...

2021 NASCAR Cup Champion Kyle Larson visited with Kenny and Crash when he was in Phoenix working to generate support for children with cancer. Larson also talked about the NASCAR Playoffs where he won the opening race at Darlington automatically advancing him to the playoffs' second round. Larson has two kids so the idea of supporting childhood cancer is something very special to him. Listen...

Guests: IndyCar WorldWide Technology Raceway Winner Scott Dixon, Three-Time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Champion Angelle Sampey, 2023 MotoAmerica Super Bike Champion Jake Gagne

IndyCar WorldWide Technology Raceway Winner Scott Dixon came into The Freak Nation Sunday night a coule hours after his win. Dixon dominated the event leading 123 laps and winning by nearly 22 seconds over Pato O'Ward in second. He pulled to within 74 points of series points leader Alex Palou with two events left in the season. Listen...

2023 MotoAmerica Super Bike Champion Jake Gagne earned his third straight Super Bike championship last weekend. We talked with Jake on his 30th birthday and he was feeling good about the world. It's been a powerful season for Gagne who started his domination on pavement with dreams of racing motorcross and supercross. Listen...

Three-Time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Champion Angelle Sampey has been a longtime friend of The Freaks. She won her titles in 2000, 2001 and 2002. She came into The Freak Nation Sunday night after announcing this week that she plans on making a racing comeback. Only, instead of racing a motorcycle, she plans on racing in a dragster with Antron Brown Motorsports. Listen...

SpeedFreaks National Radio Show 08/20/2023 by SpeedFreaks