337 MPH in 3.7 seconds - (Interview with Drag Racer Clay Millican)

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2 ай бұрын

“You’re gonna get fired anyway so you might as well start racing!”
Clay Millican, a forklift operator turned NHRA legend, has become a staple of the drag racing world and, lucky for us, he’s our very first interview on It’s Not the Car!
This show’s format rotates weekly, because squirrel. We call this format “Guest Teaches Us a Thing.” If you like it, don’t worry, there are plenty more to come whether you like it or not.
Related Trivia: Clay once experienced vibrations so hard in the car that it shook his dental crowns out of his mouth.
Mike, who wrote this description with approximately four remaining brain cells, will probably suffer the same fate simply by continuing to miss his dentist appointments.
This episode was produced by Mike Perlman.
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Пікірлер: 37

@claymillican25 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for allowing me to be part of the show. This was fun !!!

@MosinMan76254 2 ай бұрын

Jesus said, you'll know them by their fruit and that's Clay Millican!

@bobbyagee3796 2 ай бұрын

Top team top notch driver

@highadventur 2 ай бұрын

This was goood stuff. Enjoying your contributions to the Sport Clay. Thank You.

@jackmooney45 2 ай бұрын

One of the best discussions I have heard in a very long time. All involved were interesting and had great questions for Clay. Congratulations very well done

@chrisclifton4609 2 ай бұрын

Clay is freaking awesome.

@rescueseven 2 ай бұрын

Clay is the best! Great show! My first visit, I'll be back!

@BSNFabricating 2 ай бұрын

You don't just see or hear a Top Fuel or Funny Car race; it's a full-body experience.

@thomasvittetoe1930 2 ай бұрын

Clay is the man 💪🏻

@hitekbigmek 2 ай бұрын

i believe that was Jim Bucher .. he ran the only somewhat competitive T/F Chevy .. .. he did win the Summernationals at Englishtown in'75.. .. he passed away exactly on that July 7 date 2 years later at age 37 ..

@billaustin2216 2 ай бұрын

Great, GREAT show!!!!

@murrayadam8576 2 ай бұрын

Incredible interview. Thanks so much for putting an hour or so with Clay to talk about Top Fuel racing. So informative!

@benstrait333 2 ай бұрын

Clay: "I'm rambling trying to describe this, sorry." The rest of us: "That's what we're here for!" I love Clay Millican, thanks for putting him on your show!

@MattlovesNitro 2 ай бұрын

Great show! First time, won't be the last. Big fan of Clay Millican! Hope you have him back on.

@sammymarcy6029 2 ай бұрын

If anyone is wondering, Clay has always been the same person that you see now for his entire life. I've never heard of anyone that didn't like him

@bobbyagee3796 2 ай бұрын

Clay Millican is that one person if know him and those around him personally. You are by association a great great person. He is that amazing of an individual.

@chrismason1929 2 ай бұрын

Clay is the coolest guy in NHRA.

@Drones_and_more 2 ай бұрын

As a none Top fuel fan previously, I am so glad I found out about Clay, I love his content and Brent from PFI Speed is the guy that bought Clay to his following, another fan from the UK.

@afnDavid 2 ай бұрын

337 MPH to ZERO in 0.000037 seconds.

@jeffturnbull3114 2 ай бұрын

Great, great video guys. Clay, stomp on that loud pedal HARD !!!

@curtiswada2919 2 ай бұрын

Awesome interview of an awesome racer! Clay’s the man! All those early pioneers like Garlits and others has inspired several generations of drag racers and started a racing sport that has technically skyrocketed into the outer reaches of engineering capabilities!

@lorrainewilson7695 2 ай бұрын

A very informative and entertaining chat with with one of racing’s good guys, thank you.

@sammymarcy6029 2 ай бұрын

I went to highschool with Clay and my mom was his mom's hairdresser at her beauty shop. He always wore racing T shirts in school and there is a picture of Clay in the cafeteria wearing a Dale Earnhardt shirt in our highschool annual

@highadventur 2 ай бұрын

Great show guys! Thank You.

@TraceyMillican 2 ай бұрын

Enjoyed the show!!

@bobbyagee3796 2 ай бұрын

YES, i go through the same cardiac distortion when riding my harley. Prior to role on throttle my BPM is around 165 - 180. Once i set her in gear and role on it comes down to resting rate.

@russellalford5684 2 ай бұрын

I worked on Dragboats with James Brendell, he took it to Schmacher. We had lost seven drag boat drivers almost killed te sport. Love ya Clay...

@Calvin-xp4qp 2 ай бұрын

Great job Mike!

@user-dm1jw1gy5q 2 ай бұрын

I enjoyed every minute of that video I think I can hang out with you for a long time

@jackmooney45 2 ай бұрын

Controlling something that is 100% out of control? I always thought that about Top fuel

@sammymarcy6029 2 ай бұрын

Clay's first race car was a dodge charger exact replica of the general lee from the Duke's of Hazard show and one winter the real general lee could not make it to the car show in Memphis because of the weather and they had Clay take his car to the show

@harleylake1143 2 ай бұрын

Excellent!!!

@CliffHubbard Ай бұрын

Good show!!!

@bobbyagee3796 2 ай бұрын

It's similar to being on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier with an E/A 6B on the catapult and you're 20ft away. But it is still nothing lcompared to being present when Clay Millican and the Parts Plus team on A.

@russellalford5684 2 ай бұрын

Hey Clay what was your scariest moment on a Forklift ? Lol

@stevemayo1175 2 ай бұрын

Sam Smith you Must Make Plans to go to a Top Fuel event When the Top Fuel Funny Cars and Dragsters Go down the Track It Literally SHAKES All of Your GUTS / ORGANS Inside Ya BODY BRISTOL Tennessee