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The first time I heard Bob I thought he was a geek, and I didn't like him at all.
Then after a few races I started to realize how much he knows about drag racing. Stat man to the max, and how he is not afraid to tell it like it is. That is when I came to the conclusion he really is a geek. Probably one of the best Drag geeks ever!
Ill listen to him call a race anytime anywhere.
I knew Bob before he worked for NHRA. He had a little racing paper that I advertised in. He would do the anouncing at motorcycle races, and he was so funny on the mic that I hated it when the bikes made too much noise and I couldn't hear him.
I remember him saying in an old interview in SS & DI magazine, "I want to make the race fun for the guy who doesn't know a slider clutch from a brodie knob."
Thanks for the headsup Nunzio! What an elegant piece by Jon Asher.
We have many great announcers these days, but to a hardcore sportsman guy like myself, the voices of Bob Frey and Alan Reinhart will always make me "feel at home" when I'm at the races. I learned more about Comp, SS, and Stock and the teams from listening to these guys than any article I've ever read in ND. When driving into national events it always gets us pumped when we turn on the AM radio and hear either of them calling the rounds before we even get into the parking lot! And living in Hawaii, you should have seen the smile on our faces when we discovered the audiocast and the first thing we hear is Bob Frey calling the (back then) FMD qualifying.
Thanks for all your efforts Bob....in your own words ..."like they say....the crowd goes wild."
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