Eddie Miller (racing driver, born 1945)

Eddie Miller
Eddie Miller
Nationality	American
Born	January 17, 1945; Lakewood, Colorado
Died	April 24, 2021 (aged 76); San Carlos Nuevo Guaymas, Mexico
Retired	1977
Championship titles
1972, 1974 ; 1975	SCCA Formula Ford Runoffs; Formula Super Vee

Edward Hayes "Eddie" Miller (January 17, 1945 – April 24, 2021)^[1] was a racing driver from Colorado in the United States (not to be confused with the racing driver of the same name born October 7, 1895). Miller drove for Carl Haas in Formula Ford and Formula Super Vee. He also competed in Formula 5000 and Indy Car until a near fatal crash during practice for the 1976 Indianapolis 500 curtailed Miller's career. Miller won the United States Formula Ford National Championship twice, in 1972 and 1974, and he won the US Formula Super Vee title in 1975.^[2]^[3]

American Open Wheel racing results

(key)

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Year	Track	Car	Engine	Class	Finish	Start	Status
1972	Road Atlanta	Hawke DL2B	Ford	Formula Ford	1	8	Running
1974	Road Atlanta	Lola T340	Ford	Formula Ford	1	9	Running
Source:^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Formula Super Vee

Formula Super Vee results
Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
1975	Haas Motorsports	Lola T324/75	VW Brabham	DAY1 DNS	SEB DNS	ATL 1	LS 20	RIV 1	LRP 1	WGI1 8	ROA 1	MOS 1	WGI2 2	DAY2 33	118	1st
Source:^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]

Formula 5000 (SCCA L&M Championship)

Formula 5000 results
Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
1973	Team RPMM	Lola T330	Chevrolet	RIV DNS	LS 8	MIS 11	MDO 14	WGI1 RET	ROA DNS	RAL 13	POC DNS	SEA DNS	3	26th
Source:^[14]^[15]^[16]

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
1976	Eagle	Ford Cosworth DFX	Practice Crash		Thermo-King
Source:^[17]

External links

Sporting positions
Preceded by Jim Harrell	US Formula Ford National Championship Champion 1972	Succeeded by Bob Earl
Preceded by Bob Earl	US Formula Ford National Championship Champion 1974	Succeeded by Tom Wiechmann
Preceded by Elliott Forbes-Robinson	US Formula Super Vee Champion 1975	Succeeded by Tom Bagley

References

^ "Edward Miller". Denver Post. 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
^ "Eddie Miller". Road Racing Drivers Club. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
^ "Ed Miller". oldracingcars.com. Old Racing Cars. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2021. Ed Miller Eddie Miller, 1973. More commonly known as Eddie, but listed as Ed here to avoid confusion with the previous Eddie Miller who appeared at Indianapolis in the 1920's. Badly hurt in his only Indianapolis 500 attempt, he pretty much stopped racing shortly after that. A builder and property developer, Eddie largely raced in sportscars but also appeared in Formula 5000 and won the 1975 Formula Super Vee title.
^ "Runoffs Driver Archive". crbscca.com. SCCA. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller, 1972, Finish 1, Start 8, 174 Finish 1, Start 9
^ "2014 SCCA National Championship Runoffs Media Guide & Record Book" (PDF). SCCA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Former National Champions: Formula F, 1972 Eddie Miller, Hawke DL2B 1974 Eddie Miller, Lola T340
^ "The Golden Part 2 50th Anniversary of Formula F at Road Atlanta". rcffs.org. RCFFS. Archived from the original on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller, the 1972 and 1974 Champion also won a Super Vee title and moved up into Indy cars.
^ Nickless, Steve. "AMERICAN FORMULA FORD AT 50 IS SHOWING FRESH LEGS". drivetribe.com. Drive Tribe. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Indeed, the intensity of the racing in those decades where FF peaked in a frenzy is very difficult to capture in words as are the "friendships which began here." Seventy car FF fields at the June Sprints and Riverside Nationals were not unusual, and FF grids were packed at Regionals and Nationals elsewhere, even though stalwarts like four-time SCCA National Champ Dave Weitzenhof, East Coast star Bruce MacInnes, double-champ Eddie Miller, Jackson Yonge, and many other "area specialists" were incredibly tough to beat.
^ Drago, Jim. "Elkart Lake (Round 8 Robert Bosch Gold Cup)" (PDF). Formula Magazine. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller and Carl Haas had discussed their strategy prior to the race and had decided that if it started to rainEddie was to stay out on the track till the bitter end; they would not change to race tires under any conditions. Their strategy paid off, putting Edie Miller on top when the checkered came out.
^ "US Formula Super Vee 1975". oldracingcars.com. Old Racing Cars. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller won five of the 11 races in his Carl Haas Lola T324...
^ "Eddie Miller". Driver Data Base. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
^ "1975 SCCA/IMSA U. S. Formula Super Vee Championship Eddie Miller - Champion". champcarstats.com. Champ Car Stats. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
^ Drago, Jim. "Elkart Lake (Round 8 Robert Bosch Gold Cup)" (PDF). Formula Magazine. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller and Carl Haas had discussed their strategy prior to the race and had decided that if it started to rainEddie was to stay out on the track till the bitter end; they would not change to race tires under any conditions. Their strategy paid off, putting Edie Miller on top when the checkered came out.
^ "US Formula Super Vee 1975". oldracingcars.com. Old Racing Cars. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller won five of the 11 races in his Carl Haas Lola T324...
^ "Official Results of the SCCA L&M Championship race for Formula 5000 cars, Riverside International Raceway, April 29, 1973". fototime.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
^ "1972 SCCA L&M Championship (cont'd)" (PDF). myf5000.com. My F5000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
^ "1973 SCCA L&M Championship Review" (PDF). myf5000.com. My F 5000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
^ "Official Track Report, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, May 11, 1976" (PDF). doctorindy.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller in the #46 Thermo-King Eagle came out of Turn-1 (SW) high (making no contact with the wall) car slid sideways 325 feet to infield grass. Car dug in to ditch, got airborne, flipped 200 feet across retainer fence and infield fence. Came to stop, upside-down against tunnel sidewall. Driver taken to Methodist Hospital with fractures on fourth and fifth vertebrae. (Released 5/15/76. Car had very extensive damage.

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[1] "Edward Miller". Denver Post. 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2022-02-07.

[2] "Eddie Miller". Road Racing Drivers Club. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.

[3] "Ed Miller". oldracingcars.com. Old Racing Cars. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2021. Ed Miller Eddie Miller, 1973. More commonly known as Eddie, but listed as Ed here to avoid confusion with the previous Eddie Miller who appeared at Indianapolis in the 1920's. Badly hurt in his only Indianapolis 500 attempt, he pretty much stopped racing shortly after that. A builder and property developer, Eddie largely raced in sportscars but also appeared in Formula 5000 and won the 1975 Formula Super Vee title.

[4] "Runoffs Driver Archive". crbscca.com. SCCA. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller, 1972, Finish 1, Start 8, 174 Finish 1, Start 9

[5] "2014 SCCA National Championship Runoffs Media Guide & Record Book" (PDF). SCCA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Former National Champions: Formula F, 1972 Eddie Miller, Hawke DL2B 1974 Eddie Miller, Lola T340

[6] "The Golden Part 2 50th Anniversary of Formula F at Road Atlanta". rcffs.org. RCFFS. Archived from the original on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller, the 1972 and 1974 Champion also won a Super Vee title and moved up into Indy cars.

[7] Nickless, Steve. "AMERICAN FORMULA FORD AT 50 IS SHOWING FRESH LEGS". drivetribe.com. Drive Tribe. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Indeed, the intensity of the racing in those decades where FF peaked in a frenzy is very difficult to capture in words as are the "friendships which began here." Seventy car FF fields at the June Sprints and Riverside Nationals were not unusual, and FF grids were packed at Regionals and Nationals elsewhere, even though stalwarts like four-time SCCA National Champ Dave Weitzenhof, East Coast star Bruce MacInnes, double-champ Eddie Miller, Jackson Yonge, and many other "area specialists" were incredibly tough to beat.

[8] Drago, Jim. "Elkart Lake (Round 8 Robert Bosch Gold Cup)" (PDF). Formula Magazine. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller and Carl Haas had discussed their strategy prior to the race and had decided that if it started to rainEddie was to stay out on the track till the bitter end; they would not change to race tires under any conditions. Their strategy paid off, putting Edie Miller on top when the checkered came out.

[9] "US Formula Super Vee 1975". oldracingcars.com. Old Racing Cars. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller won five of the 11 races in his Carl Haas Lola T324...

[10] "Eddie Miller". Driver Data Base. Retrieved 19 June 2021.

[11] "1975 SCCA/IMSA U. S. Formula Super Vee Championship Eddie Miller - Champion". champcarstats.com. Champ Car Stats. Retrieved 19 June 2021.

[12] Drago, Jim. "Elkart Lake (Round 8 Robert Bosch Gold Cup)" (PDF). Formula Magazine. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller and Carl Haas had discussed their strategy prior to the race and had decided that if it started to rainEddie was to stay out on the track till the bitter end; they would not change to race tires under any conditions. Their strategy paid off, putting Edie Miller on top when the checkered came out.

[13] "US Formula Super Vee 1975". oldracingcars.com. Old Racing Cars. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller won five of the 11 races in his Carl Haas Lola T324...

[14] "Official Results of the SCCA L&M Championship race for Formula 5000 cars, Riverside International Raceway, April 29, 1973". fototime.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2021.

[15] "1972 SCCA L&M Championship (cont'd)" (PDF). myf5000.com. My F5000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2021.

[16] "1973 SCCA L&M Championship Review" (PDF). myf5000.com. My F 5000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2021.

[17] "Official Track Report, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, May 11, 1976" (PDF). doctorindy.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Eddie Miller in the #46 Thermo-King Eagle came out of Turn-1 (SW) high (making no contact with the wall) car slid sideways 325 feet to infield grass. Car dug in to ditch, got airborne, flipped 200 feet across retainer fence and infield fence. Came to stop, upside-down against tunnel sidewall. Driver taken to Methodist Hospital with fractures on fourth and fifth vertebrae. (Released 5/15/76. Car had very extensive damage.

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