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From crawling at the Speedway Day Care Center to coordinating my High School Senior Skip Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to buttin’ heads with the current ‘pink shirts’ of racing, I was born to do this job of racing commentary. I’m a very opinionated chic who loves her motorsports. And yeah, I’m a blabber mouth, too. At times on the show, I can’t stand the boys talking over me… Hello!! I’m here, too!! …But no fretting here because I can definitely hold my own. / / / /I’m Crash Gladys, the only female on the national radio & TV show, SpeedFreaks. Single? Yes. Can you date me? No… unless you can get past my 3 bodyguards – Kenny Sargent, Lugg Nuttz and Statt Mann Caruthers… also known as my co-hosts. / / / /We talk all motorsports… IndyCars to Drags to Jet Skiing to Motocross, Sports Cars, Drifting, Snowmobiling, NASCAR, F1, Rally, Offshore Boats, Hill Climbs, Lawn Mowers, MotoGP, Dakar, Sport Compacts and more! / / / /My favorite? That’s easy… I practically grew up in the infield of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway… so all open wheel would be the answer. My peeve? People thinking the world runs on NASCAR… puh-lease, there is SO much more variety and drama out there… just hop into the Freak Nation to find out. We’re the only show on the planet that provides you with the full insight to ALL racing series week in and week out. / / / /Don’t get me wrong, though… there is some fun drama that occurs in the NASCAR world, and damn there are some incredible drivers there, too. I would be more interested in the series (Cup in particular) if the races were shorter and the season was shorter. I believe no track should host a second date, I would like to see the drivers having more of a life and I think that some of their events should be more IndyCar style… a sprint rather than a drawn out endurance race. Give me 300 milers any day and get rid of the 500’s (except the big 2: Daytona and Charlotte) / / / /So my favorite NASCAR Series? The Trucks for sure… all out sprint races, beatin’ and bangin’ from the green to the checkered… no sand baggin’ and no holds barred! / / / /And the motorsports stars with the biggest set of cajones? In my opinion? Anything 2-wheeled… no HANS device, 200+ mph with no seatbelt, no roll cages and continuously flirting with disaster… have you seen Superbikes or Drag Bikes to know what I am talkin’ about? You must… go find it now and I promise you’ll be hooked! / / / /And the best drivers in the world? In my opinion? Rally… hands down. No one else races on snow, ice, over cliffs, across boulders, sand, dirt, asphalt, salt, uphill, downhill, purposely airborn, left, right, hairpin, etc, etc, etc. And that’s hard to say at times for a born and bred open wheel diva who cherishes the many surface types raced in Champ Car and the IRL: Street Courses, Road Courses, Superspeedways and Short Ovals. Love the diversity! / / / /But I digress… let’s get back to how I got to Southern California and how in the heck I could leave my beloved Indianapolis, IN. It’s a long story and I can get into it later, but bottom line is that I was 26 years old and already I needed a change of pace. I had been involved in motorsports in one way or another most of my life. I loved working with teams, coordinating the details of hospitality and travel and helping foster sponsorships, but was that really for me? / / / /The ultra spontaneous side of me put together my relocation in a matter of weeks and I was off… I thought it would be fun to up and leave and become an actress in Hollywood (enter hysterical laughter here). BUT, one of my last auditions before I was gonna hang up my SAG Card and head back to Indy to look for another racing job, was SpeedFreaks. Holy cow, it was a God-send. SpeedFreaks combines my need to express my high drama side with my racing love. / / / /What? Me a Drama Queen? I am that… absolutely! Racing Freak? Don’t even try to argue me on that one. / / / /There is only one downside to living in SoCal, however. It just stinks not being able to jet ski or boat out to the sand bar for Happy Hour at the summer lake house like I used to do… there just aren’t any recreational-residential lakes within hours of LA! And the ocean is a bit cold for me (wimp). But the mountains and 350 days of sunshine outweigh any of that. Camping, motorcycle riding, hiking, biking, warm weather and some incredible views keep me quite content (provided I make it back for a lake adventure in Indiana at least once per year). / / / /Now I could go on and on, but let’s just wrap up with some of the questions I have been asked over the years at SpeedFreaks. I love hearing from our viewers/listeners and have put these bits together based on emails from you, The Freak Nation... those oh so intriguing questions you enquiring SpeedFreak minds want to know - see other profile sections to the side and below. And if these just don’t cut it, then feel free to contact me with more! www.SpeedFreaks.TV