Team Running 24 Events Without A Primary Corporate Sponsor …
Millican (right) with team owner Mark Pickens plan to challenge for
the 2009 NHRA Top Fuel crown. With the lack of full time Top Fuel
teams, their 24-race schedule provides an excellent opportunity.
Clay Millican realizes his situation is completely outside the norm.
The six-time IHRA Top Fuel world champion turned NHRA runner plans a
24-race schedule minus major corporate sponsorship save for the
branding from team owner Mark Pickens' Motorvation electronic fuel
injection company and a score of associate sponsors.
Call him the little engine who could. Call him whatever you want,
Millican adds. He just wants you to call him a championship contender.
"We are going to go after that NHRA championship, I know we have the
team and we have the people in place to do it," Millican said. "We're
working hard to fill in the blanks for sponsorships; Mark says we're
going forward. Our cars are ready right now and we have two brand new
cars sitting in the shop ready to go. We have a well rested team and
it's kind of been a nice, slow off-season for us."