| Jason
Miller’s Outstanding Career |
| Moving
Forward at Branson |
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| BERRYVILLE,
VIRGINIA - After a career start with a casual
effort in karting, which led to an ASA Late Model
Series ride, Jason Miller’s plans include an
attempt to come close to his amazing record of
winning fifty percent of the races he enters. In
the first three years he ran Legends Cars,
Miller's record was an unprecedented half of all
races he ran. Miller’s plans for 2007
include the ASALMS Southern Division series and
the Mid Atlantic Auto Racing Association (MAARA)
Late Model races in Pennsylvania and New York. |
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| Miller’s
first race in the ASALMS South Division’s
2007 calendar will be that series’ first
race of the year, at Bronson, Flordia’s
Bronson Motor Speedway. The Camp Boggy Creek 100
presented by Pennzoil and Dalton Zehr Racing will
see Jason Miller bring his No.94 Watermelon
Park/Big Daddy Detail Monte Carlo out, ready for
the new season. |
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| Asked
how he started in the sport, Miller replied:
“My dad’s been involved in
racing-growing up with street rods and pulling
trucks and always liked NASCAR. My granddad was a
country music singer, so he was on the road
traveling all the time, so he didn’t have
the time to put in for my dad to build and let
him try it and go racing like he wanted, so my
dad decided one day that we’d go buy a
go-kart and see how it goes.” |
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| Obviously,
it went well, as he racked up 150 wins in his
first three years of kart racing, running with
Bandit Racing, a local team. His calendar
didn’t include any national races but that
was fine; he wasn’t running for points, just
fun. |
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| When
he jumped into Legend Cars after three years of
karting, the transition required a major
adjustment, as Legends Cars race on a hard street
tire from BF Goodrich, and reward a smooth,
almost gentle driving style to avoid spinning
out. The "seat time" in Legends Car
races has helped give Miller the car control
needed in the larger and faster ASA Late Models
he’s racing. |
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| “Having
to pay for everything ourselves and now [that]
we’re in Late Model and the touring series,
it’s really costing us now,” says
Miller when asked about the team’s budget,
“but it’s worth it.” |
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| The
young driver is being helped in this ambition by
grooming from the Future Stars in Racing Academy;
learning how to conduct sponsor presentations,
media interviews, how to comport himself on and
off the track and even how to conduct interviews
as the interviewer rather than the interviewee. |
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| Future
Stars in Racing is the exclusive driver
development partner with the ASA Late Model
Series and provides members with practical
experiences in dealing with sponsors, the public,
media, other drivers and promotors. Founded by
Rolfe Schnur, the Academy features a staff of
seasoned professionals with decades of experience
in all aspects of motorsports. |