What makes a clutch hold up?

[Boss75]

I see guys all the time having to get a new clutch with only 30k miles or 60k miles. I've got 109k miles (daily driver) and I'm still on the stock clutch and it works great. I drag race and it still grabs hard.

Why do some go ka-bluey and others hold up for almost forever?

 

[cobrob]

Mainly the way people drive it. Some people like to slip it a lot while taking off and shifting. This wears it out very fast.

 

[RedRocketMike]

It's just the way you drive, even if you like to drive your car hard it doesn't mean a short clutch life. The worst things, I think, are when you rev it up high backing up or pulling out, just to get attention or whatever. And when you downshift through every gear rather than just using the breaks to stop. A friend of mine ate a clutch in a Stealth in 10,000 miles because he sometimes rode the clutch with his foot.

 

[01 Venom]

ya pretty much the way you drive it