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Miranda Throckmorton to “Wing It” with the Midwest All Stars in 2008
Miranda Throckmorton, fresh off an eye-opening season in which she
garnered her first sprint car win and chased the track championship at
Paragon (IN) Speedway to the final night, has announced that she will
compete for Rookie-of-the-Year and Series Championship titles with the
O’Reilly Midwest All Star Series in 2008, while also running ten to
fifteen O’Reilly All Star Circuit of Champions events.
While the fifteen-year-old high school sophomore from Avon, IN. has
primarily raced without a wing throughout her first two years of sprint
car competition, she did compete in the Midwest All Stars event at
Paragon as well as the All Star Circuit of Champions sanctioned Hoosier
Fall Classic at Lawrenceburg Speedway in her first experience with a
winged sprint car. Miranda captured a feature win at Paragon on May
19^th , in route to a fifth-place finish in the season points
championship, finishing just sixty markers from the title.
Before moving to sprint cars during the 2006 season, Miranda won ten
championships and set four track records in quarter midgets and also
competed in Kenyan midgets and micro-sprints. She has also distinguished
herself off the track as a top student and public speaker, including
delivering the keynote address at the NAMARS awards banquet. She also
was selected to and participated in the prestigious Lynn St. James
Driver Development Program, where she gained not only valuable on-track
experience, but had valuable training in marketing, media relations,
public speaking and other areas as well.
Miranda Throckmorton will join Team Maxim for the 2008 racing season,
driving her familiar # 22 sprint car, sponsored by Bond and Associates
and Eubank Mobile Home Transport. She’ll join an outstanding group of
racers that form the nucleus of the Midwest All Star Series, like 2007
series champion Jerrod Hull, Rob and Jeremy Standridge, A.J. Bruns, Ryan
Bunton, Jimmy Hurley, Tim Montgomery and Tiffany Wyzard, among others.
This past season witnessed over one hundred and thirty different drivers
in competition during sixteen races throughout Illinois, Missouri and
Indiana. The 2008 schedule is being prepared with twenty-five to thirty
races expected to be held.
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