SpeedFreaks: Biggest Motorsports Show On The Planet

Sunday night The Freaks took a Freakin' Flashback with Courtney Force back to July, 2013. That was about the time the winning NHRA Funny Car driver posed for the ESPN The Body issue. What was it like to be nude in the desert? Was she able to get her mind around the young technicians working the lights and equipment? And what about the idea that came up over a glass of win with her mother? Listen...

Supercross Rider Mike Alessi is back in the sport after a couple years away. He talked about the differences Sunday night. Are the riders faster now than when he won two motocross events? What do the new team owners who hired him? Do they expect him to return to the Winner's Circle? Or the Podium? Did he ever expect to be back riding? This is a new Mike Alessi and he sounds pretty cool. Listen...

Guests: IndyCar St. Petersburg Winner Josef Newgarden, NASCAR Driver Aric Almirola, ARCA Pensacola Winner Michael Self, NASCAR Driver Daniel Hemric

IndyCar St. Petersburg Winner Josef Newgarden started the 2019 season off right coming into The Freak Nation. He was ready for the season after some time off. He talked about the IndyCar schedule, the pace of the season and the year-long preparation for the Indy 500 in May. Newgarden won the IndyCar title in 2017 so he knows what's necessary for championship performance. Listen...

NASCAR Driver Aric Almirola was ready to be in Phoenix this weekend after a cold and wet winter at home in North Carolina. But there are times when Almirola likes to be home after a season on the NASCAR road from February to November. Almirola drives for Stewart Haas Racing and loves it. He loves the technology in NASCAR. But what about the technology in IndyCar? Could he ever race in open wheel? Listen.

ARCA Pensacola Winner Michael Self won on General Tires at the Florida short track. He was much happier after a poor opening to the season at Daytona. But Self has a lot on his plate in a race season. His schedule includes teaching some of the sports headliners how to drive, especially on road courses where he does some coaching and mentoring. Self is another in a LONG line of witty ARCA drivers. Listen...

NASCAR Driver Daniel Hemric is already ahead of the game. He's married to a great woman who's also a driver, Kenzie Ruston. So when he same into The Freak Nation Sunday night he was full of fun and information. He was ready to talk about a driver fight, a headline this week. He also talked about NASCAR marketing as well as compatibility among drivers in the NASCAR garage. Hemric is a Friend of The Freaks and Lucas Oil at Richard Childress Racing. Listen...

Guests: NASCAR Las Vegas Cup Winner Joey Logano, Four-Time CART Champion Sebastian Bourdais, Seven-Time NASCAR Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson, Actor Comedian Deon Cole

NASCAR Las Vegas Cup Winner Joey Logano came into The Freak Nation Sunday night right after winning the race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Logano won in a historic event. It as the first time since 2002 that a Cup race went off without a Yellow Flag. How'd that happen?? And what will Logano do about it? Will he go straight to Pheonix for next week's race or somewhere else? And what's making Penske Racing so successful early in the 2019 NASCAR season? Listen...

Seven-Time NASCAR Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson spent an afternoon talking with young kids last week. He talked about his love of math when he was growing up and how that made his career choice easier. It's been a difficult season thus far for Johnson. The wins aren't coming like they did when he was winning all those championships. Some of them came before those kids were born. Johnson loved the afternoon though. Listen...