Hannah Miller First Woman to Represent USA in Amateur Driving Championship

Hannah Nicole Miller from Howell, the USA’s National Amateur Driver of 2015, will be the first woman to carry America’s colors when she competes in six races against her counterparts from 13 other international countries in the FEGAT World Championship for Amateur Drivers (the World Cup) in Budapest, Hungary beginning Wednesday, Aug. 31 and continuing through Sunday, Sept. 4.

The competition will take place with three races a day on September 3 and 4 at Kincsem Park.
The full lineup of drivers appears on this link: http://www.fegat.info/competition_cat2016/world-championship-in-hungary/

“I’m proud and overwhelmed in being the American representative to the World Cup,” Miller said. “It will be challenging for me to compete mostly against men who, for the most part, are seasoned veterans, but I look forward to the challenge and I hope I do well."

“Hurricane Hannah,” 24, is a member of many amateur driving clubs including: the Billings Series, NAADA, and the Catskill Amateur Drivers Club, and not surprisingly she is the current leader in each series.

When the North American Amateur Drivers Association (NAADA) joined FEGAT (European Trotting Amateur-Drivers Federation) in the early 1980s that earned the organization the opportunity to name the American entrant in the FEGAT World Championship for Amateur Drivers (the World Cup). The competition began as an event every four years, but has melded into an international competition every other year.

Miller is the daughter of trainer Erv Miller, the 2005 Trainer of the Year and No. 3-ranked trainer in terms of wins with more than 4800. She also is the sister of professional driver Marcus Miller.

Last year when she won the National Amateur Drivers Award she had driven 32 winners, the most ever by an amateur in one season. She already has 27 wins this season and is on target to eclipse last season’s stats.

According to NAADA president Joe Faraldo, “Hannah is the best, and we’re sending our best to Budapest to race in the World Cup.”

Hannah is no stranger to racing abroad having anchored the American Team when they traveled to Majorca last fall to race against the Spanish amateurs. And earlier she was on the American team which traveled to greater Naples, Italy to race against their veteran amateurs.

Scheduled to leave for Budapest on August 29 Hannah will be joined by her parents Erv and Heidi Miller, her boyfriend Nick Surick and NAADA founder and president, Joe Faraldo and his wife Yma.