Brian MacMillan

About

Brian MacMillan’s first trip down a dragstrip was in 1972 at Saskatchewan International Raceway in his near stock 67 Chevelle Malibu 2 door hardtop, and he was hooked.

A year later, Brian and his family moved to Winnipeg and Brian owned two different 55 Chevys, followed by a small block powered 1964 Chevy race car named Wild Oats. That was part of the stable of race cars and street rods that came out of Timers Car Club in Winnipeg and sponsored by Dragmart Speed Shop in Winnipeg, racing several times at Bison Dragway, east of the city.
Brian didn’t race much for a few years, as life and work had gotten in the way. However, he had several hot cars, including a 1970 Chevelle. In 1986, while working for a local performance store, he hired a beautiful young lady to hand out flyers at the World of Wheels car show. He and that young lady Corinne started dating, pursuing the drag racing bug together. First, Brian taught Corinne how to drive a hot rod, with his 13 second 55 Chevy. That just wasn’t fast enough, so a big block was built for Corinne’s Camaro, and in no time it was a 10 second street and strip car.
In 1990 Brian, married Corinne, they decided to name their racing team MacMillan and Wife Racing, taking inspiration from a childhood TV show, hoping it would make people smile. That was over 35 years ago.
The couple raced their Camaro together and shared the driver’s seat and won a track championship at Gimli Dragway. During this time, Brian was one of the founding members of the Drag Racers Association of Manitoba and served as an executive of the association, raising funds for its special events.
In 1994, Brian won the IHRA Mid America Nationals in Nebraska, competing in the HotRod class.
While off the track, Brian was employed with Profit Products, once Canada’s largest distributor in the aftermarket custom wheel industry, supplying many racers across Canada with the wheels they needed. In 1999 Brian took a position as eastern Canadian sales manager for American Eagle Wheel Corporation, moving to Ontario with his wife. Opting to become a full time crew chief, he coached Corinne as they raced throughout the eastern region of Canada and the United States at both IHRA and NHRA races.
Over the next several years, the team won a national event at the Northern Nationals in Martin, Michigan. By winning that race, the couple became the only husband and wife team in Canada to have each won an IHRA national event. The following year, they were runner ups at the 2005 World Nationals in Norwalk Ohio in a field of over 100 SuperRod cars. Throughout the years the team also garnered several awards for best appearing car and crew, along with an NHRA Never Rest award for extreme efforts made to pursue their racing.

Brian’s tuning abilities along with Corinne’s driving made the couple very competitive in Super Gas racing, they still race a full schedule of races each season, both in Canada and the United States.