Cody & Hunter Miller Go
1-2 at Ironman GNCC
Cody Miller Clinches UTV
Championship & Takes 4x4 Pro ATV Win
Greenville, TX (10/31/2016) -
“Dominance” is a word that is thrown around a
little too easily in the racing world. However,
in the case of Cody and Hunter Miller, that word
is truly fitting as the brothers finished off
a dream inaugural season in the GNCC Series at
the finale at Ironman Raceway in Crawfordsville,
IN. Cody Miller won both the 4X4 Pro race and
the XC1 UTV race, clinching the UTV Championship
in the process. Hunter Miller stepped up the XC1
UTV class and finished second.
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Can-Am's
Cody & Hunter Miller went 1-2 in the
XC1 UTV Class at the Ironman GNCC Season
Finale, which allowed Cody Miller to clinch
the 2016 GNCC XC1 UTV Championship
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While it may have been his first season of GNCC
racing, Cody Miller looked more like a veteran
than a rookie. He finished on the podium of all
six UTV races, winning three of them, and clinching
the championship by 45 points.
In the ATV 4X4 Pro Class, he won four races,
two in which he won both the ATV and UTV race
in the same weekend which is a GNCC record, and
finished third in points.
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Cody Miller
claimed his 3rd straight win in the 4x4
Pro ATV class, which boosted him to third
in the points championship
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Miller needed only to finish the UTV race to
clinch the title. A true competitor at heart,
Miller fought his way through the difficult field
to win.
“I only had to finish 15th or better to wrap
up this championship, but I just don’t have that
in me,” said Miller. “This whole weekend, all
I could think about was winning this race. We
went out there and battled really hard. I didn’t
come into to first and stay there. It was a hard-fought
race and was probably reckless of me to go out
there and battle for the win with the championship
on the line. It’s a feeling like no other to come
to these races and win. It’s like a drug and I
can’t get enough of it.”
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Cody Miller
took over the early lead & held on
to claim the win to secure the GNCC UTV
XC1 Championship
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Miller led a Can-Am sweep of the podium here.
He was honored by the support of Can-Am, as well
as the rest of his sponsors.
“I can’t say enough about Can-Am for letting
us come out here and race, and Houser Racing for
helping us to develop these cars,” said Miller.
“Elka has stood by us with the shocks that makes
these things go around the corners. Maxxis Tires
went above and beyond what they said they would
do for us this season. DWT Wheels is a long-time
sponsor of ours and we’ve never had an issue with
them. Whenever you have a DWT wheel, you know
you’re not going to have a problem. S3 Powersports
worked with us to get these cars beefed up to
where they would handle a season of racing. HMF
Exhaust and the Evolution Programmer made it so
our car with a stock engine wasn’t getting passed
on the straightaways. Everyone else has ripped
out the stock engine and built them. We’re running
the stock top end and with the HMF Exhaust and
Evolution Programmer, and we’re easily as fast
as everyone else.”
Hunter Miller continued his late-season charge
with the runner-up slot in the XC1 race. After
winning the last XC2 race, he elected to step
up for the final race. Apparently, it was a good
decision.
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Hunter Miller
claimed a season best 2nd Overall at the
Ironman GNCC Season Finale
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“Locally, Cody and I race and we’re pretty close,”
said Hunter Miller. “I just wanted to try it and
since I was out of the points in XC2, I went ahead
and stepped up. Obviously this is more than I
could ask for. I was hoping for a top five, but
second is amazing. David Plavi and I were having
a ridiculous battle. For the entire hour, we battled.
I knew we were going pretty quick, but I had no
idea we were that fast.”
Hunter Miller ran a full-on pink color scheme
on his Can-Am for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
He said the team’s results were a perfect way
to cap off the season. A true competitor in his
own right, he joked about wanting the win, instead
of finishing behind his brother, but he took it
in stride.
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SSi Decal's
Hunter Miller switched to pink graphics
for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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“It’s terrible,” laughed Miller. “I want to win.
It was good, though. He proved he was the fastest
guy out there finishing on the podium in every
race this year. To finish right there is amazing.
I’m so happy my mom made it up here. We literally
did as well as we could possibly do.”
Cody Miller summed up Miller Racing’s 2016 GNCC
season perfectly: “Wow! What a feeling,” exclaimed
Miller. “It just capped off the whole weekend.
What an honor and what a great way to finish off
our first season in GNCC.”
While plans are still in the works, the Millers
hope to return to GNCC next season.
Miller Brothers Racing
would like to thank their 2016 sponsors:
Can-Am, DWT Wheels, Houser, Elka Suspension, Maxxis
Tires, Beard seats, Louis Powersports, HMF exhaust,
Evolution Powersports, Gates belts, S3 Racing,
Tire Balls east, DP brakes, Factory UTV.
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