CORY MAC GETS A NEW RIDE

As we all know, this has been a "thin" season for NHRA Top Fuel entries, so while some wait for a ride, drivers like Cory McClenathan have not been letting the grass grow under his flame retardant boots. Cory Mac, first NHRA driver to run in the 4.70’s, has started racing in the Mechanix Wear Speed Truck Challenge on local Southern California circle tracks. McClenathan, who stopped racing Top Fuel when Joe Gibbs pulled the plug on his MBNA dragster operation, debuted his Cory Mac Motorsports Speed Truck at Cajon Speedway where he qualified twenty-fourth and finished eighteenth.

The following week at SoCal’s Irwindale Speedway, McClenathan came from tweny-sixth to finish sixteenth, down a lap, after dropping a cylinder at the wave of the green flag in his lime green No. 6 Speed Truck. In an Irwindale tradition, he signed autographs for the kids just like his local NASCAR counterparts.

McClenathan said of this new challenge, "Joe Gibbs, Bobby Labonte and Tony Stewart are always kidding me about turning left, so I thought I would give it a try with the Speed Truck Challenge. It’s much more difficult than I thought, yet it’s much more fun than I thought as well."

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