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Guests: The Freaks on Alex Bowman DQ and Playoffs Exit, Three-time NHRA FC Champion Ron Capps, Endurocross Colorado Springs Winner Trystan Hart

The Freaks on Alex Bowman DQ and Playoffs Exit. It was a running commentary throughout much of the broadcast Sunday night. NASCAR disqualified Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman from the Charlotte Roval race. That left him in 36th place for the final results and that dropped Bowman from the Final Eight in the next round of the NASCAR Cup Playoffs. A NASCAR official said the issue with Bowman'...

Endurocross Colorado Springs Winner Trystan Hart came into The Freak Nation hours after winning the first event of the Endurocross 2024 season that will be broadcast on MAVTV. Hart has won world championships in the challenging sport of euduro racing and endurocross. The events include seven minute sprints inside an arena and seven hour battles with the forests and rocks of Romania. The Canadian r...

Three-time NHRA FC Champion Ron Capps came into The Freak Nation Sunday night. Capps won his championships in 2016, 2021 and 2022. That last title came when Capps was in his first year as a team owner, a very rare accomplishment. But Capps isn't having that championship kind of season in 2024. His crew chiefs are making changes and the performance on the track is having difficulties. Capps is four...

SpeedFreaks National Radio Show 10/06/2024 by SpeedFreaks

Antitrust Attorney Jeffrey Kessler & 23XI Racing Partner Denny Hamlin are in the midst of a lawsuit filed against NASCAR. It's a legal action that could radically change the way NASCAR does it's business. Kessler talked with Dale Earnhardt, Jr. on his Dirty Mo Media Podcast. He talked about the case against NASCAR and the charges he's bringing of NASCAR's monopolistic business practices. He's repr...

The Freaks talked with NASCAR Drivers Daniel Suarez, Denny Hamlin & Michael McDowell on the Charlotte Roval Changes coming next weekend. The changes include elevation changes that may impact driver sighting around the track. There have also been changes in braking zones and chicane setups. Some drivers feel NASCAR wants chaos to shakeup the final race in the NASCAR Championship Playoffs Round of 1...

NASCAR Xfinity Playoff Driver Jesse Love is becoming a Friend of the Freaks. Love is 19 and won't be 20 until January 14th. He is sixth in the NASCAR Xfinity Playoff Standings and could get into the next round of eight by staying there after the next race at the Charlotte Roval next Saturday. He talked with The Freaks about learning to blend his considerable oval track skills with road course raci...

NASCAR Talladega Pole Sitter Michael McDowell is a special Friend of The Freaks and has been for more than a decade. McDowell drives for Front Row Motorsports through this season and he's fighting to remain in the NASCAR Playoffs with one race to go before the Round of Eight. McDowell explained his race strategies and how he learns from other drivers in the midst of 200 MPH packs like those driven...

Guests: NHRA Worldwide Technology Raceway Winners, Six-Time NHRA Pro Stock Champion Erica Enders, NASCAR Xfinity Playoff Driver AJ Allmendinger, NHRA Top Fuel Driver Leah Pruett, NHRA Drivers on Radio Profanity

NHRA Worldwide Technology Raceway Winners cane into The Freak Nation Sunday night moments after the Victory Lane ceremony. Dallas Glenn won Pro Stock. Tony Schumacher won Top Fuel, his first win since the death of his father Don Schumacher. And Fast Jack Beckman won his first race in the car formerly driven by NHRA legend John Force who's recovering from a terrible accident earlier in the season....

NASCAR Xfinity Playoff Driver AJ Allmendinger is a Freaks Favorite. But he's fighting to stay in the Xfinity playoffs. AJ is tenth in the standings 13 points behind the cutoff to be included in the next round of eight. Allmendinger has 18 wins in Xfinity racing but his last win came last season in Nashville. He hasn't been in Victory Circle in 2024. Last month Kaulig Racing announced it would retu...

NHRA Top Fuel Driver Leah Pruett told the Freaks eleven months ago she was fighting to change NHRA rules concerning female drivers starting a family. Pruett and a coalition of women NHRA racers fought for an amendment to NHRA rules. Pruett was a career-best third in 2023 but opted to start a family with husband Tony Stewart. They're expecting their first child in November. Her fight to change the...

Six-Time NHRA Pro Stock Champion Erica Enders spent time this week with Kenny and Crash. Erica is third in the standings 90 points behind leader Dallas Glenn. Enders is the most successful female Pro Stock driver in NHRA history with titles in 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023. She'll have to battle though to repeat this season. Still, the oddsmakers in Las Vegas put Enders as the favorite to...

Drivers in all racing series are watching what Formula One is doing about drivers who use profanity over their in-car radios. F1 drivers could be penalized heavily. And NHRA drivers were concerned about the same thing happening as they're being interviewed before their races by network anchors calling the competition. The Freaks talked with Erica Enders, Ida Zetterström, and Ron Capps about the po...

Guests: NASCAR Truck Series Bristol Winner Layne Riggs, High Limit Eldora Winner Rico Abreu, NHRA Charlotte Top Fuel Winner Antron Brown, The Trouble With Howard Author Lee Anne Patterson

NHRA Charlotte Top Fuel Winner Antron Brown followed up his win in Reading, Pennsylvania last weekend. The win gives him a 53-point advantage over Justin Ashley in second with four events remaining in the 2024 season. This is his first time in first place this late in the season since 2017. He won his championships in 2012, 2015 and 2016. Brown qualified 10th in Charlotte making his climb to the v...

High Limit Eldora Winner Rico Abreu is a Friend of the Freaks. He's a regular in The Nation. But his fourth win in the Eldora 4 Crown event is four reasons why Rico is drawn to the western Ohio track. The 4 Crown event features winged Sprint Cars, non-wing Sprints, USAC Midgets and USAC Silver Crown cars. These open wheel racers are some of the fastest in short track racing all over America. And A...

NASCAR Truck Series Bristol Winner Layne Riggs made his debut in The Freak Nation Sunday night. His Bristol win was his second in a row in the series after a win at the Milwaukee Mile. Riggs isn't in the NASCAR Truck Series Playoffs but he's making a great run at the spoiler title! The Riggs name actually isn't new to The Freaks. Layne's dad Scott Riggs was a regular when he ran in the Truck Serie...

"The Trouble With Howard" Author Lee Anne Patterson made her debut in The Freak Nation Sunday night. Her book aimed at young people is a unique story about a skunk found on the side of the road and raised by racers who take it around a racing series with crazy events following everyone. Trouble, the skunk, is the pet raised by Howard and Anita Millican. It's a real-life story told by Patterson who...

Guests: 2024 IndyCar Champion Alex Palou, 2023 NASCAR Cup Champion Ryan Blaney, NASCAR Truck Series Playoff Driver Rajah Caruth

2024 IndyCar Champion Alex Palou won his third title Sunday afternoon in Nashville. He's the second youngest driver to ever win three IndyCar championships after Sam Hornish. Palou beat Will Power for the championship solidifying the title when Power had troubles with his seatbelts and had to pit losing laps to Palou who coasted to the title in eleventh. He's the 13th driver to ever win three cham...

2023 NASCAR Cup Champion Ryan Blaney talked with Kenny Sargent and Crash Gladys in Phoenix this week. Blaney is in the NASCAR playoffs this season trying to defend last year's championship. His work will be tough staying in the playoffs. He crashed out at The Glen Sunday before he finished the first lap. He's eighth in points going to Bristol Motor Speedway next weekend. He'll need to be among the...

NASCAR Truck Series Playoff Driver Rajah Caruth came into The Freak Nation Sunday night. Caruth is tenth in the NASCAR Truck Playoff standings. But that's four points away from eighth. The next two races are at Bristol Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway. Only the top eight drivers in the standings will advance to Talladega and beyond after those two events. Oddly, Caruth admitted he wasn't racing...

Guests: NASCAR 23Xi Team Co-Owner Denny Hamlin, Big Machine Record Label Owner Scott Borchetta