Corinne MacMillan

About

With When Corinne was a young girl she watched Shirley Muldowney racing on ABC’s wide world of sports and it made quite an impression on her young mind.

Fifteen or so years later, she was dating her future husband Brian and decided to enter in the sportsman bracket class at Gimli Dragway in Manitoba, finishing runner up at her first race. A year later, in 1987, after attending a few races with Brian, the couple decided that one of their two cars should be made into a race car. Brian had a 55 Chevy and Corinne had a 68 Camaro, they decided the Camaro was better suited to be a good bracket car and so, the transformation began.

By this time, Corinne had become a full time teacher, teaching Industrial Arts, including electronics, automotive and Manufacturing. She promoted and ran the High School’s drag racing program, and in a few short seasons it was a young female Winnipeg racer, who was one of Corinne's students, that won the Division 5 championship with Corinne's guidance.

Corinne and Brian would share the driving, alternating weeks, they won races at Gimli Dragway and Saskatchewan International raceway, where the couple won with one driver and a runner up on the other day of the event with the other driver. They also competed at Interstate Dragway and Brainerd International Raceway in Minnesota, along with several other tracks in division five. In 1990, Corinne and Brian were married and decided their Camaro should be lettered up as MacMillan and Wife racing, based on a 70s TV detective show.

For the next few years Corinne and Brian competed in the Super Street and the Hotrod classes divisionally, winning a track championship at their home track Gimli Dragway. Corinne also was crew chief when Brian won the IHRA Mid America Nationals in Scribner, Nebraska in 1994.

The couple was also instrumental as two of the founding members of the Drag Racers Association of Manitoba, with both of them serving on the executive. That association is still going strong today.

In 1999, the couple relocated to Ontario and the couple began racing out of Ajax. Brian retired from driving and became the full time crew chief, while Corinne was the full time driver. With the abundance of local and regional tracks, they raced all over the North Central division as well as the Super Gas and Super rod classes.

Corinne had success driving full time and won the IHRA Northern Nationals in Martin, Michigan in 2004, exactly 10 years to the day of Brian's win in Nebraska. In 2005, she was runner up at the World Nationals in Norwalk. She also won a Divisional IHRA event and was runner up at two more NHRA divisional events at Norwalk. Corinne also won the 2023 Division 1 National open in Numidia, Pennsylvania.

Corinne is always a tough competitor and very few would take her for granted behind the wheel of her pink Camaro that she had once driven to school.