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Maryland International Raceway’s Royce Miller To Play Many Roles At Pinks All Out Shoot
Written by: David Harris   
06/16/2009
Charlotte, NC
 
Pinks All-Out heads to Maryland International Raceway on Saturday June 20th. (Photo: SPEED) ยป More Photos

Popular SPEED™ television show PINKS All Out, presented by NAPA, is returning to Maryland International Raceway on Saturday, June 20 to shoot an episode for season three. But unlike the last one in 2007, this could become one of the most stressful events in track owner Royce Miller’s career, as both of his ‘work lives’ combine into one.

In 1990, Miller and his wife Linda purchased Maryland International Raceway, and have spent the last 19 years building it into one of International Hot Rod Association’s (IHRA) crown jewel national event facilities. As with most track owners, he and his team spend countless hours promoting, maintaining, operating and managing all sorts of motorsports-oriented events – often taking seven days a week to make it all work.

If that’s not enough, after holding multiple successful PINKS and PINKS All Out shoots at his Budds Creek-area facility dating back to 2005, Miller was asked early last year by Pullin Television (PINKS All Out production team) to become one of the show’s Track Technical Coordinators in his ‘spare time,’ working as the liaison between production company and at-track operations crews during each production he’s
able to attend. Yet, when PINKS All Out comes to his facility this weekend, his responsibilities will lie on both sides of the plane.

“I don’t know (if the enormity of it) has really sunk in yet,” joked Miller, on putting his arms around the upcoming tasks at hand. “The advantage is I know all the personalities and dynamics of everyone involved. We can do some things well in advance of what we have to do onsite when we normally arrive at a venue (two days before). I can have all the (elapsed time) categories set up in the computer; I can have the tech meeting, and then am able to properly direct my team as we have been running events leading up. We’ve started assigning people to certain positions and whenever time allows, I’ve already started saying, ‘Alright now, when we get to PINKS…’ I’m hoping that I can preset and train enough of our team in preparation to allow me to step back and take a better look at the overall picture.”

Miller talked about how operating a PINKS All Out television shoot - walking that tightrope between on-air content needs and at-event audience entertainment - differs from managing another one his MIR special events.

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