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Millican
And Team Werner Trucking Out West To Compete At The Final Two NHRA Events
Courtesy
of Lehman Racing
Drummonds, TN - Clay Millican, driver of the Werner Enterprises Top Fuel
dragster, will join the NHRA Winston Drag Racing tour for the final two
events of the 2001 season in Las Vegas and Pomona. The Lehman Racing team
competed at two NHRA events earlier in the year (Gainesville and Topeka)
and qualified in the top half of the field at both races, reaching the
quarterfinals in Topeka.
Millican enters the ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals as the newly crowned
2001 IHRA Top Fuel world champion. Led by master crew chief, Mike Kloeber,
the Werner Enterprises hot rod dominated the IHRA tour, winning six
consecutive IHRA national events during the season to seize the crown.
Millican broke a 26-year-old IHRA record for consecutive national event
wins (5) held by "Big Daddy" Don Garlits and ran quicker
(4.601-seconds) and faster (323.58-mph) than anyone in IHRA history.
Millican, who holds both ends of the IHRA Top Fuel performance records,
qualified No. 1 at seven of the ten races on the tour and finished the
season with a 22-4 won/loss record, which translates to a staggering 84%
winning percentage. All of this was accomplished with a 25-percent limit
on the blower overdrive.
Not only will Kloeber have a chance to turn up the wick on the Werner
dragster in Vegas and Pomona, he'll also have some fresh pipe to play with
during the Tennessee-based team's trip out west. Team owner Peter Lehman,
a charismatic 25-year-old motorsports visionary from Chicago, stocked the
Werner nitro arsenal with a brand new state-of-the-art Brad Hadman racecar
prior to the final IHRA event in Shreveport last weekend.
Kloeber and the team shook down the car with a brief squirt at Memphis
Motorsports Park the day before leaving for the Shreveport event. After a
one-week rain delay, Millican and the Werner Enterprises crew finished the
IHRA season by qualifying second and advancing to the semifinals at the
IHRA World Finals. Now the team has their sights set on disrupting the
tight NHRA Top Fuel point’s battle.
"The Werner team is heading out west with every intention of becoming
a factor in the outcome of the 2001 NHRA Top Fuel championship," said
Millican. "Mike (Kloeber) would love nothing more than to win one of
the final races of the Winston-era and we're going to work as hard as we
can to make it happen."
Millican will also be part of a special pre-race autograph session that
will take place at the ESPN Zone in the New York New York Hotel and Casino
on the world-famous Las Vegas Strip, Thursday, Oct. 25, from 8-9:30 p.m.
The autograph session is free to the public.
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