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(CHADWICK, IL) - Darren “The Thriller”
Miller drove his 32D Pro Power Racing/ Ideal Ready Mix/ Out-Pace
Racing Products Ford Taurus late model to “back to back”
feature wins this Labor Day weekend. Winning first at LaSalle (IL)
Speedway in the WDRL 50 lap event Sunday Sept. 4th , Miller found
victory lane again on Monday night at the Davenport Speedway 40
lap WDRL event.
At LaSalle Sunday night, Miller would
finish 2nd in his qualifying heat and 2nd in the pole dash,
earning an outside front row feature starting position. Miller
jumped to an early lead on the opening lap of the feature event
but after an early caution flag flew, found himself running in
3rd. After several passing attempts at leader Eric Pember and
second place running Jimmy Mars, Miller found the right
combination on a lap 17 restart and passed both Mars and Pember.
Miller quickly moved out to a straightaway lead and began to work
his way through heavy lapped traffic, demonstrating how he earned
the nickname "The Thriller". Miller was never seriously
challenged again and took the checkered flag with a half a
straightaway lead.
Miller started early the following night
at Davenport, winning his qualifying heat and finishing 3rd in the
pole dash. Lining up for the feature from the inside of row two,
at the start Miller quickly moved into 2nd behind leader Jimmy
Mars. Following were Kyle Berck and a hard charging Brian
Birkhofer. Shortly after passing Berck for 3rd Birkhofer came to a
stop in turns 3-4 when a front control arm failure ended his
night. As “The Thriller” slowly began to reel in Mars he moved
into position to make a challenge for the lead when the pair
encountered lap traffic while entering turn one. Miller took the
lead with a strong inside move on Mars and drove on for the
feature win with Mars finishing 2nd, and Kyle Berck 3rd.
“We couldn’t be happier” stated
Miller from his shop in Chadwick, IL. “We had originally planned
to travel a littler further this weekend but at the last minute
decided to stay closer to home for our fans and to spend the saved
travel time preparing for the upcoming “World 100”. We won
LaSalle Sunday night with one car, and then Davenport Monday night
with our other car, so I think we have our program pretty close.
We’ll be working on more prep over the next few days then we’ll
be heading out for Eldora.”
For current scheduling and schedule
updates, results, team news, photos, apparel, diecast and other
merchandise check the teams website at www.darrenmillerracing.com.
Media Contact: Craig Dusing
Darren Miller Racing
32d-pr@darrenmillerracing.net
