Clay Stuckey isn’t only trying to find his footing as a 22-year-old still relatively green at the Super Late Model level, he’s also carrying responsibilities that resemble those of a house car driver.
Why? The Shreveport, La., youngster has spent much of the last year helping transform the family’s Stuckey Enterprises operation from a Black Diamond Race Cars dealer into Longhorn by Stuckey, the chassis venture he and his father, Ronnie, launched last June out of their Louisiana shop as a Deep South extension of China Grove, N.C.-based Longhorn Chassis.
Stuckey is determined to absorb as much knowledge as possible on the road in hopes of improving both their product and the support they provide customers. It’s a responsibility he doesn’t take lightly, especially now that Longhorn by Stuckey manager B.J. Robinson has stepped out of the driver’s seat and Ronnie — a longtime crew chief — is often tied down at the family’s Louisiana race shop instead of traveling often alongside his son…