1. Steve Millen was born on 17 February 1953 and is a retired New Zealand IMSA race car driver.
28 Facts About Steve Millen
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Steve Millen then began sports car racing, winning numerous championships in IMSA Camel GT.
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Steve Millen won 20 races in the series, including the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring.
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Steve Millen started competing in rally cars in the mid 1970s.
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Steve Millen switched to off-road racing in the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group stadium series in the early 1980s.
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Steve Millen won the 1986,1988, and 1989 Mickey Thompson Off-Road Grand Prix Grand National Sports Truck Championships.
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Steve Millen won two Indy Lights races in the series' inaugural 1986 season, that same year, he participates in the last round of the World Rally Championship in the 21st Olympus Rally driving for Toyota Team Europe, accompanying the Swedish drivers Bjorn Waldegard and Lars-Erik Torph.
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Steve Millen switched to the IMSA Camel GT series in 1990.
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Steve Millen was the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans Rookie of the Year.
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Steve Millen won three races and took five pole positions in 1990.
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Steve Millen had seven poles and five wins in 1991.
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Steve Millen drove for Allan Moffat Racing in the 1991 Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst, partnering Gary Brabham in a Ford Sierra RS500 but the car did not finish the race.
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Steve Millen expressed interest in returning by no offer was forthcoming with the Moffat team seeing the return of the cars builder Ruedi Eggenberger in 1992 along with his ace driver Klaus Niedzwiedz.
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Steve Millen won the 1992 IMSA GTS championship in a Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo car.
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Steve Millen won the 12 Hours of Sebring and had top five finishes in the first four events before his 1993 season ended with injuries at Watkins Glen International.
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Steve Millen returned in 1994, and won the IMSA GTS championship.
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Steve Millen won the 1994 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring, and was first in class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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Steve Millen was invited to the International Race of Champions.
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Steve Millen was leading the IMSA GTS championship, when he had a professional career-ending crash at Road Atlanta.
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Steve Millen had competed in three of four IROC races.
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Steve Millen has the most all-time wins in IMSA GTS history with 20 victories.
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Steve Millen has had several wins in occasional appearances in various series since his retirement.
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Steve Millen worked as a driver for commercials sometimes with Rod and has appeared in a commercial for Honda, despite being under contract at the time to rival Nissan.
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Steve Millen is a member of the Screen Actors Guild as a stunt driver, which provided the healthcare he needed when he had his career ending crash.
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Steve Millen started Stillen, an aftermarket performance parts company specializing in Nissan and other performance vehicles in 1986.
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Steve Millen has been active in designing and engineering race cars for hill climbing, notably the Pikes Peak and Race to the Sky hillclimb in Queenstown, New Zealand.
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Steve's brother Rod Millen became a legend at the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb.
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Steve Millen is the uncle of Rhys and Ryan who both compete in motorsport events.