Dougzilla vs Clay Millican

[stitcherbob]

Some Maple Grove history

 

[twostep]

LOL
I remember it well. Wouldn't have been much of a fight. Millican wasn't about to square off with somebody the size of Doug Herbert.

 

[ch streetcars]

I was always a fan of Doug , other than this day, but they patched it up and have been good friends for years, unfortunately they both lost sons, so they can relate to each other better than most of us could. Both are good people and Clay has been active in Doug's organization BRAKES, which teaches kids safe and defensive driving.

 

[LoPony]

That was a classic. I really was rooting for Clay to just let the car sit there till it ran out of fuel if that’s what it took. Emotions run high. Of course Dougzilla would’ve wiped the floor with Clay, but Clay stood up for himself!

 

[Nunz]

The "fight" wasn't really between Clay and Doug. It was Clay's car owner Pete Lehman (not a big guy either lol) who shoved Doug.

 

[Rajunz]

That was great that they showed it again this weekend. A memorable moment in the sport!

 

[J]

I remember that day like yesterday. Me and a friend sitting there in reserved drinking our coors lights,dodging the off and on mist then this happened,everyone in the stands loved it!

 

[LoPony]

The "fight" wasn't really between Clay and Doug. It was Clay's car owner Pete Lehman (not a big guy either lol) who shoved Doug.

You are right, I guess years ago the first time I saw that I thought it was Clay, and I remembered it differently! I went back and watched it again, and I can’t believe that I thought that was Clay, who was not physically involved? Things moved fast, but it looked like Clay was still standing over by the car.

Is that right?

Thanks for that correction.

 

[Quesadilla]

The next year Doug had his “Dougzilla” shirt which had Doug as Godzilla in a dragster grabbing a small car that just happened to be blue and purple…wish I would’ve bought it

 

[J. S.]

Didn't Doug have a similar incident with Rod Fuller? Rod is even smaller than Peter or Clay. Is Rod much over 5 feet tall?

 

[twostep]

Didn't Doug have a similar incident with Rod Fuller? Rod is even smaller than Peter or Clay. Is Rod much over 5 feet tall?

Hot Rod Fuller? Ahh, there's a blast from the past. He was pretty competitive if I recall, winning several national events and leading the points chase a time or two.

I don't remember a dustup but I do remember Herbert whipping Fuller once at a national-event final. Whipped him in the race, now; not back in the pits.

 

[Under_Pressure]

Hot Rod was with David Powers Motorsports, and for a time they were as good as anyone in TF. Recall that Bazemore left DSR (and took Matco with him) to be the other car on that team, then after a year was replaced by Antron when he made the switch from bikes, beginning the Antron-TF-Matco association that continues today.

Unfortunately this was happening in 2006-2008 and David Powers was a highly leveraged custom home builder, so things fell apart pretty quickly after the 2008 season. Antron had the right combination of skill and marketing potential, along with a sponsor that was dedicated enough to drag racing, to land on his feet elsewhere- Hot Rod wasn't so fortunate.

 

[stitcherbob]

I remember Hot Rod fuller as being the first professional drag racer that I know of to injure himself climbing over a chain link fence in the staging lanes in a desperate bid to get to the restrooms before a run.

I guess he fell over it on the way back, pulled his back but still made the run.

 

[TSK]

I remember Hot Rod fuller as being the first professional drag racer that I know of to injure himself climbing over a chain link fence in the staging lanes in a desperate bid to get to the restrooms before a run.

I guess he fell over it on the way back, pulled his back but still made the run.

Rod hurt his knee after that little escapade. There was a story going around that Rod jumped over the fence in order to talk to a girl who caught his eye, and when he landed he tweaked his knee.
Rod was raised in northwest Arkansas, and we had a mutual friend. The three of us went to lunch one day not long after that season ended, and he filled me in on what happened.

 

[Joe]

Hot Rod was with David Powers Motorsports, and for a time they were as good as anyone in TF. Recall that Bazemore left DSR (and took Matco with him) to be the other car on that team, then after a year was replaced by Antron when he made the switch from bikes, beginning the Antron-TF-Matco association that continues today.

Unfortunately this was happening in 2006-2008 and David Powers was a highly leveraged custom home builder, so things fell apart pretty quickly after the 2008 season. Antron had the right combination of skill and marketing potential, along with a sponsor that was dedicated enough to drag racing, to land on his feet elsewhere- Hot Rod wasn't so fortunate.

I was always curious why Powers never ran IHRA during that period.

 

[Paul]

I was always curious why Powers never ran IHRA during that period.

Does IHRA pay you every time you bring them up in a NHRA forum?

 

[Joe]

Not yet

 

[Quesadilla]

I was always curious why Powers never ran IHRA during that period.

Why would they? Most NHRA teams that ran IHRA during this time did so because of their sponsorship from one of Evan Knoll’s Companies which all fell apart around 2008…but that’s another story

 

[NHRAMike]

Wasn't this about the same time that NHRA had a limit on the amount of test sessions a team could have during the season, and if any team did race at an IHRA event, that counted against their limit?