NHRA

Baytown: Clay Millican final summary

Millican Ends Weekend With First Round Loss at NHRA O'Reilly Spring Nationals Houston - April 10, 2005 Clay Millican of Team 104+ Performance Additives/Lehman Racing ended his weekend with a first round loss in Top Fuel eliminations at the NHRA ...

Published: Apr 12, 2005, 7:00 AM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

Millican Ends Weekend With First Round Loss at NHRA O'Reilly Spring Nationals

Houston - April 10, 2005 Clay Millican of Team 104+ Performance Additives/Lehman Racing ended his weekend with a first round loss in Top Fuel eliminations at the NHRA O'Reilly Spring Nationals.

Millican was the number nine qualifier with an elapsed time of 4.573 at 318.47 mph. He faced number eight qualifier Rod Fuller in the first round of eliminations, and they were the first pair to go down the track. In their first-ever NHRA match-up, Millican was quicker off the line with a reaction time of .052 seconds to Fuller's .076 seconds. Millican lost traction however, and finished with an E.T. of 8.984 to Fuller's quicker 4.587.

"It is always disappointing to lose, especially in the first round," said Millican. "We have always done very well at this track and I was hoping for similar results today. This 104+ Performance Additives team and I will go back to the shop, though, and work hard to make sure that we come out strong in our next race."

[104carsmall2005.jpg] This race marked Millican's third NHRA event of the season, and he has plans to race in at least three more events this year. The winningest professional driver in International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) history is also racing for his fifth consecutive Top Fuel title on that circuit, and recently won the season-opener in San Antonio, Texas, on April 1-2.

Millican's next scheduled NHRA race is the O'Reilly Mid-South Nationals in Memphis, Tenn., on August 19-21. He will return to IHRA competition on April 22- 24 when he goes for an eighth consecutive Rockingham Dragway victory at the IHRA Spring Nationals with Team Werner/Lehman Racing.

We want your opinion!

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?

Take our 5 minute survey.

- The Motorsport.com Team

Read and post comments

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article Baytown: Jeg Coughlin final summary

Next article Baytown: Tony Pedregon

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

Marc Marquez: ‘Jorge Martin rides on instinct; he just attacks, and that’s his strength’

MotoGP

MGP MotoGP

Australian GP

27 min

Marc Marquez: ‘Jorge Martin rides on instinct; he just attacks, and that’s his strength’

Lamborghini Super Trofeo | North America, Race 2: Bamber dominates to take the win

Lamborghini Super Trofeo

LBST Lamborghini Super Trofeo

World Finals - Monza 2026

28 min

Lamborghini Super Trofeo | North America, Race 2: Bamber dominates to take the win

Belgian firm to take over Renault/Alpine engine facility in Viry

WEC

WEC WEC 57 min

Belgian firm to take over Renault/Alpine engine facility in Viry

Jorge Martin the slowest Aprilia in Australia practice: “I'm used to riding with the Ducati here”

MotoGP

MGP MotoGP

Australian GP

1 h

Jorge Martin the slowest Aprilia in Australia practice: “I'm used to riding with the Ducati here”

Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.

From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.

You have 2 options:

Become a subscriber.
Disable your adblocker.

Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here

Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page

Manage Alerts