Rhys Millen, nick named as Mad Skills, is known to be one of the top competitors of drifting of America nominated for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture was born on September 6, 1972 in New Zealand. He is nephew of Steve Millen, IMSA GTS driver. His father Rod Millen was a racing competitor, designer of vehicles and business owner. He has a brother Ryan Millen.
There is not much of information about school life of Rhys Millen. He finished his college life at Rangitoto College. Rhys Millen has participated in the drift showoff in 2003 and taking home top honors. In 2004, he was signed by the World’s biggest automotive manufacturer. He was the General Motors to become the first factory paid drift driver. With continuous development and experiments of subtle speedway style, dominated his way to the Formula Drift championship crown in 2005. He debuted the season in 2011 as a Global Rallycross Driver. He is associated with a team Rhys Millen Racing currently.
Rhys Millen has achieved over 20 decades of racing with a solid career and reputation and movie career as well. But you may not know his first love was mountain biking and he used to race mountain bike till the age of 17 when he stayed with his mother. Only when he moved into his father at United States he was exposed to cars and racing but he still loves mountain biking. You may also not know that Tanner Foust, a racing driver with lots of achievement was once his roommate and he was asked to move out by Rhys Millen as he has proposed to his wife and wants to get married. He is happily married to his wife and lives a great life with his children. There is not much of information about his girlfriend and stuffs.
There was a minor controversy seen when it is known that Rhys Millen’s car, new Hyundai Genesis Coupe Formula Drift, does its debut at the Long Beach season opener having Nissan power under its hood. This was not an issue as his team was independent but they didn’t have time to build an engine with Hyundai.
He had been mostly associated with Hyundai Brand for long. He has been associated with other brands too but not much of information has been provided.
Rhys Millen has participated in various charity challenging races for generating funds. Rhys Millen visited children at Halifax Health in Daytona Beach and signed hats and posters for them and also took photographs with them.
Rhys Millen has a good height of standing at 6 feet tall with a weight of 195lbs. The current estimated net worth of Rhys Millen is $2.1 million and enjoys good salary per race.
He is active and found in various social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. and his racing and life story can be read in various websites and blogs.
