SpeedFreaks: Biggest Motorsports Show On The Planet

NASCAR Xfinity & Cup Driver Noah Gragson was in The Freak Nation Sunday night talking about the great opportunity he has next month to run in The Daytona 500. Gragson won at Daytona last year in an Xfinity car. But the Cup car is faster and the competition in the Cup field is far deeper. Can he do well? He thinks so. Listen...

20-time Rolex 24 Winner Andy Lally is a longtime Friend of the Freaks. His wins in the Rolex 24 started when The Freaks started, more than 20 years ago. Lally is the winningest active IMSA driver in the Rolex 24. IN fact, he talked about the eight Rolex watches he's won in the race and who he's shared them with. Listen...

Guests: 2020 Lucas Oil Motocross 450cc Champion Zach Osborne, NASCAR Team Owner David Gilliland, USAC Midget & Chili Bowl Driver Landon Simon, 16-Time NHRA Funny Car Champion John Force

2020 Lucas Oil Motocross 450cc Champion Zach Osborne takes his outdoor motocross championship into the Supercross season that starts in Houston, Texas January 16th, next Saturday. The 2020 Supercross season started on a down note for Osborne who broke some ribs, his wrist, fractured five vertebrae, and bruised his lungs while practicing before Atlanta. But the break for the pandemic last year let him be on the mend in more ways than one. Certainly it got him ready for a championship run outdoors. Listen...

NASCAR Team Owner David Gilliland returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night. It was announced this week that Gilliland has formed a new partnership with businessman and former NHRA drag racer Johnny Gray to form David Gilliland Racing. The team will remain based in Mooresville, N.C., competing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, ARCA Menards Series and the CARS Late Model Stock Tour with factory support from Ford Performance. The new hats will be many for Gilliland. Listen...

USAC Midget & Chili Bowl Driver Landon Simon was in The Freak Nation Sunday night before he hunkers down in Tulsa for the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals. It's the craziest week in racing where more than 300 drivers gather in a Tulsa shed to race USAC Midget race cars around a dirt track sometimes six times a night to qualify for the finals next Saturday on MavTV. If it sounds wild, it is! Listen...

Late last year The Freaks spent more than an hour with maybe the greatest drag racer ever, 16-time Funny Car champion John Force. Force has been a Friend of the Freaks for every one of our 20 years. So this visit was like Old Home Week for all of us. A conversation with John is fun and this is no different. Force had the time because he was off the racing calendar last year for several reasons. Listen...

Guests: NBC Sports Motorsports Analyst Rutledge Wood, 2016 IndyCar Champion Simon Pagenaud, 2020 IMSA Endurance Champion Team Owner Wayne Taylor, NASCAR Driver Riley Herbst

2016 IndyCar Champion Simon Pagenaud, winner of the 2019 Indy 500, is a long time Friend of the Freaks. So Simon's visit was well accepted and enjoyed. While Pagenaud talked fun in the racing off-season he had some sadness at not being able to spend Christmas at home in Paris for the first time in his life. He said the pandemic would keep him in North Carolina this year. Listen...

NBC Sports Motorsports Analyst Rutledge Wood returned to The Freak Nation Sunday night to talk about Cruisin' The Continental U.S. a national road trip with Continental Tire. Wood made the trip with sportscar driver Ryan Eversley in a supercar. And the two just cruised talking with and seeing anyone and anything interesting. Wood said much of what they saw were things that were missed when they cruised by while on assignment to a motor race. Listen...