Sentence:  Donnie's used to finessing race cars, he was the <WSD>clutch artist</WSD> on Larry Miersch's Huntington Beach, California-based A/Fuel dragster for five years. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A person who drives a motor vehicle, especially one equipped with a manual transmission, in a particularly skillful manner.<ref>See "[http://www.word-detective.com/2008/10/page/5/ Clutch, in the]" at "The Word Detective" (Oct. 7, 2008): At present, the only positive use of “clutch” I can find is the term “'''clutch artist''',” a fairly rare term for a truck driver (referring to expertise with the “clutch” pedal).</ref>