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

“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. ** Support It’s Not the Car: Contribute on Patreon ⁠⁠⁠  / notthecar   ** Topic suggestions, feedback, questions? Let us know what you think! ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠ ** Where to find us:   / claymillican   ⁠⁠⁠⁠  / intcpod     / j.v.braun     / rossbentley     / thatsamsmith   ⁠  / intcpod   https://rossbentley.substack.com/ https://speedsecrets.com/   / drivercoach   ** ABOUT THE SHOW: It’s Not the Car is a podcast about people and speed. We tell racing stories and leave out the boring parts. Ross Bentley is a former IndyCar driver and an internationally renowned performance coach and author. Jeff Braun is a championship-winning race engineer. Sam Smith is an award-winning journalist and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine. Together, we explore the emotion at the heart of the machine. We don’t love racing for the nuts and bolts—we love it for what it asks of the bag of meat at the wheel. New episodes every Tuesday.