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NHRA Brainerd Lucas Oil Nationals Top Fuel Winner Antron Brown returned to The Freak Nation. The win in Brainerd topped a double weekend winning the Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge on Saturday and the Finals on Sunday. Brown is third in points as the NHRA playoffs approach. He said his team is solving season long challenges. Listen...

NASCAR Cup Indianapolis Road Course Winner Michael McDowell came into The Freak Nation Sunday Night for an in-depth conversation on his Indy win. It was an important win for McDowell in that it put him into the NASCAR playoffs, a great moment for his young independent team Front Row Motorsports. McDowell is a longtime Friend of the Freaks. Listen...

2014 & 2022 IndyCar Champion Will Power is a funny guy when he comes into The Freak Nation. And Sunday night was no different. He didn't pull any punches with anyone who came into the conversation. Most of all the 2018 Indy 500 winner talked about his comfort at Worldwide Technology Raceway, the next stop in the IndyCar calendar next weekend. Listen...

Guests: NASCAR Team Owner Rick Hendrick & 2021 NASCAR Cup Champion Kyle Larson, 2004 IndyCar Champion Tony Kanaan, 2023 NASCAR Chicago Street Race Winner Shane Van Gisbergen, General Manager Worldwide Technology Raceway Chris Blair, IndyCar Indianapolis Winner Scott Dixon

IndyCar Indianapolis Winner Scott Dixon, a six-time champion in the series, visited with Kenny Sargent in the Indy Media center after his popular victory. The win marked the 29th straight year that Dixon has at least one win in the series. All those seasons have been with Chip Ganassi Racing and Dixon is satisfied with that relationship. Listen...

NASCAR Team Owner Rick Hendrick & 2021 NASCAR Cup Champion Kyle Larson Sunday morning announced the paint schemes for their attack on the 2024 Indy 500 and NASCAR Coke 600, the famed Motor Racing Double that will be known next year as the Hendrick 1100. Larson will be making his debut in IndyCar when he takes the green flag in the 500 next season. He'll be driving for the Arrow McLaren team. Both...

Tony Kanaan on Tour de Force, Teammates & Kyle Larson 2004 IndyCar Champion Tony Kanaan visited with Kenny Sargent and Crash Gladys at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend. The 2013 Indy 500 winner has become a driver coach for the Arrow McLaren team in IndyCar and he'll be tasked with getting Kyle Larson ready to make his debut in the Indy 500 next season. Kanaan talked about that and a lot m...

General Manager Worldwide Technology Raceway Chris Blair visited The Freak Nation live Sunday night. His IndyCar date at WWTR is next on the IndyCar calendar. He starts promotion the event with a tour around St. Louis media Monday. Blair is a longtime Friend of the Freaks. He always has a candid conversation. Listen...

2023 NASCAR Chicago Street Race Winner Shane Van Gisbergen made his NASCAR oval racing debut this weekend when he ran in the NASCAR Truck race at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis. Van Gisbergen runs all road courses in the V8 Supercars Series where he's won three championships. He finished tenth Sunday in the IMS road course race. He's making a reputation for excellence in NASCAR. Listen...

Guests: IndyCar Nashville Winner Kyle Kirkwood, 14-year-old Trans Am Driver Ben Maier, Sprint Car 360 Nationals Knoxville Winner Brian Brown

IndyCar Nashville Winner Kyle Kirkwood won his second race of the season in Nashville. He had a strong car all day Sunday dominating the race early and, after a late yellow flag, pit stop and restart, Kirkwood worked himself back to the front for the win. This was his first visit to The Freak Nation but it was a good conversation anyway. Especially when we talked about the heat and humidity in Nas...

Sprint Car 360 Nationals Knoxville Winner Brian Brown is a legend in the Sprint Car world. He's won several times in Knoxville, holy ground for Sprint Cars. Brown races at least 75 events a year in 20 states. He's always on the road. And he likes it that way. Listen...

14-year-old Trans Am Driver Ben Maier made his debut in The Freak Nation Sunday night. Maier is getting great attention and help from legends such as Travis Pastrana. Maier will be featured in a new MAVTV show On The Rise airing Thursday night at 8PM Eastern. He finished ninth in Nashville in the TA2 race, that's after starting at the back of the field. Maier also raced two Stadium Super Truck rac...

Guests: Action Sports Legend Travis Pastrana, 2014 USAC National Midget Series Champion Rico Abreu, 2012, 2015 & 2016 NHRA Top Fuel Champion Antron Brown

Action Sports Legend Travis Pastrana is defining Action Sports for millions around the world. But for The Freaks he's a friend and, frankly, just Travis. We've known him since he was a 16-year-old teenager trying to find a place for himself in the motorsports landscape. He found that place and grew it to his backyard in some cases. In addition to his six American rally titles, he's now founded Nit...

2012, 2015 & 2016 NHRA Top Fuel Champion Antron Brown is a special Friend of the Freaks. We always love his energy and candor. But we also found his engaging as a host for NHRA Hall of Fame member Kenny Bernstein. Kenny and Crash talked with Antron in Denver just after The King of Speed triggered memories sitting in Antron's dragster. Listen...

2014 USAC National Midget Series Champion Rico Abreu has been in The Freak Nation many times but it's been a while this time. Rico has been in NASCAR in addition to his continued return to America's dirt tracks where he won a title in 2014. Now he's beating some of the best at their game, Sprint Cars. Listen...

Guests: NHRA Seattle Funny Car Winner Tim Wilkerson, Formula Drift St. Louis Winner Odi Bakchis, NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Championship Couple Matt & Angie Smith (Second hour only)

NHRA Seattle Funny Car Winner Tim Wilkerson returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night for the second time this season. His win in the Pacific Northwest kept points leader Matt Hagan from sweeping the Western Swing after Hagan's win last week in Denver. Wilkerson took Hagan out in the first round. Wilkerson has some ideas on his great season. Listen...

NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Championship Couple Matt & Angie Smith returned to The Freak Nation. Kenny and Crash talked with the couple in Denver. Matt is a six time champion who's won four of the last five titles. Angle wins events making them experts on competing against each other while traveling and raising a family. Tough work! Listen...

Formula Drift St. Louis Winner Odi Bakchis wears many hats when he's in the drifting world. His suspension business goes around the world. His new drift team has drivers and crew that travel across America. But Bakchis explains how drift judging changes in different parts of the sport. Listen...

Guests: NHRA Denver Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan, Six-Time NHRA Champion Kenny Bernstein, NHRA Norwalk Top Fuel Winner Leah Pruett

NHRA Denver Funny Car Winner Matt Hagan returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night hours after his victory. The three-time NHRA Funny Car Champion won in 2011, 2014 and 2020. He's also the points leader this season by a narrow margin over Ron Capps. Hagan has a strong season unfolding running for NASCAR legend Tony Stewart. He had some special memories in winning the last Funny Car competition at B...

Six-Time NHRA Champion Kenny Bernstein won his championships in both Funny Car (4) and Top Fuel (2). He's the first to go 300 MPH in drag racing. And he's the first to win races as a tam owner in the NHRA, NASCAR and IndyCar. By any measure, Kenny Bernstein is a motorsports legend who shared some of those memories with The Freaks. Listen...

NHRA Norwalk Top Fuel Winner Leah Pruett shared some very candid comments with Kenny and Crash. Leah learned how to drag race at Bandimere, the track where she ran on the final weekend of racing this week. Pruett's confidence this season blossomed after her win in Norwalk, Ohio. She also had great memories about teaching her husband Tony Stewart about drag racing. Listen...