TMCP 590: Bonus Feature – NHRA Superstar Clay Millican: Racing Highs….and Lows….and Highs Again!
 

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This week our intrepid producer Bernie McPartland snuck into the Texas Fall Nationals with a media pass and caught up once again with NHRA superstar Clay Millican. Clay is IHRA’s most winningest top fuel driver as well as climbing up the ranks in NHRA. His recent win at the US Nationals is like the taking the checkered flag at Daytona or the Red Wings winning the Stanley Cup, it is a very big deal and is cementing Clay as one of the most winningest men in drag racing period! What is great about Clay is that he is humble and honest about what happens behind the wheel and at the track and brings that to this interview.

Clay talked about some great memories of his earliest days of racing, traveling with his two sisters to the Texas Motorplex without parents around and had a great adventure racing. This memory is in his mind as rockets down the same track many years later in the same Texas heat. Clay is now working for team owner Rick Ware as a part of Rick Ware Racing who supports what Clay does whole heartedly and he says it has been a great experience since the transition. When he won the US Nationals there was an overwhelming wave of messages of congratulations, with Rick’s the happiest of all. It was an amazing the level of support he received from his team and his fans and he loved every minute of it.

Winning seems like it is everything and it is hard to admit defeat when it happens. Life is not perfect and failure will happen at some point in everyone’s lives. Clay says at the end of the day, if you make a mistake, just man up and say you made a mistake. This is a defining mindset of Clay’s team management and is also a great life lesson. He says he is not going to be the one saying there is anyone to blame for a failure but will fully admit when he did something wrong. Once you admit it, you can work to fix it and learn how to not do it again. The wins and losses can be intense but Clay admits he is “not a helmet thrower” as he realizes you can accept the fact that it was not your best and work even harder to make it right the next time.

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