{"id":493790,"date":"2014-05-01T00:03:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T07:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=10587"},"modified":"2024-01-08T14:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:23:55","slug":"drino-miller-1941-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/drino-miller-1941-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Drino Miller (1941\u20132014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p2-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-715276 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p2-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p2-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p2-1-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p2-1-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p2-1-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p2-1-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p2-1-293x195.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drino Miller has lost his long battle with cancer at the age of 72. An early off-road racing legend\u2014his Baja Boot was the first purpose-built off-road racecar\u2014Miller later expanded his influence into sports car and Indycar racing. He was one of racing\u2019s great innovators, choosing to pursue the sport after earning a Political Science degree from UCLA and studying Law at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the founding members of the \u201cBaja Brotherhood,\u201d a loosely organized group that explored the Mexican peninsula well before racing was established there, Miller then scooped victory with Vic Wilson in the fourth running of the fabled Baja 1000. He continued building innovative off-road machinery before branching out to develop VW power plants for Midget racing. In 1978 he was inducted with the inaugural class of honorees into the Off Road Motorsports Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p1-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-715278 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p1-2.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n1-201405-p1-2-100x91.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>During the early \u201980s he worked with Andial, a period that coincided with the ascendance of those purveyors of Porsche performance to the top of IMSA GT racing with their trick 935L. After Andial, Miller served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Toyota Racing Development, managing TRD\u2019s competition programs that dominated off-road racing with Cal Wells\u2019 PPI organization and IMSA prototype racing with Dan Gurney\u2019s AAR Eagle GTP cars before moving into Indycars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent years he consulted with various companies, mainly in the motorcycle industry, and enjoyed taking long rides through Europe aboard his two-wheeler. He is survived by his wife Lisa and his brother Chris, to whom Vintage Racecar extends our deepest sympathies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drino Miller has lost his long battle with cancer at the age of 72. An early off-road racing legend\u2014his Baja Boot was the first purpose-built off-road racecar\u2014Miller later expanded his influence into sports car and Indycar racing. 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