The Muscle Car Place online podcast, episode number 590.

This week, it's a bonus show with NHRA superstar Clay Milliken.

You longtime listeners will know that Clay is a friend, and he's a fan of the shows here on the Muscle Car Place Network, if you can believe that.

Every year, Clay comes to Dallas, Texas for the Texas Fall Nationals, and every year, our

producer Bernie McPartland weasels his way in with a media pass to hang out with his

actual favorite person in the world, Clay.

Well, wouldn't you know, they actually make a pretty good interview team together.

Clay is 58 years old.

He is the winningest top field driver of all time in IHRA with 52 national events.

And the past few years in NHRA, especially with Rick Ware Racing, have seen a renaissance.

Some major success.

So let's listen in to a fun interview, and we're going to learn about all the highs and all the lows.

For people that don't know, winning the U.S.

nationals is equivalent to the Daytona 500, the Indy

500, the Super Bowl, the World Series.

I don't know what the hockey thing is.

I don't know. Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup.

Winning the Stanley Cup. Not much ice

in Texas. Yeah, exactly.

Especially right now.

As I've gotten older, I have decided that you do the best you can do,

and it's not necessarily always your best, and you lose.

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