Darren Migues (born April 14th, 1969) is a former monster truck driver out of Kansas City, Missouri. Migues has driven multiple trucks and currently owns the Nitro Menace name and formerly the Jail Bird truck. He competed from 2006-2022. Migues has won multiple events, but never competed in a Monster Jam World Finals.
Career[]
Migues was hired by 2Xtreme Racing in 2006 and Migues began driving the second Bounty Hunter until 2010. Migues briefly drove Bigfoot in 2010, before being hired by Steve Sims to drive a second Stone Crusher in 2011.
In 2012, Migues went back to driving for 2Xtreme, piloting Bounty Hunter in 2012. Migues spent another period driving Bigfoot in late 2012, before again returning to 2Xtreme.
Migues drove Iron Outlaw from 2012-2013. He also drove Team Survivor, then Bounty Hunter again in 2014.
In 2014, Migues bought the Get-Er-Done and Robo Machine trucks from Mitch Tulachka. He would later rename the trucks to Menace and Freedom Keeper respectively.
In 2015, Menace was renamed to Nitro Menace.
In 2016, Migues drove Knucklehead in Cumberland, Maryland. He later debuted Jail Bird driven by his daughter Kaylyn Migues.
In 2019, Migues drove Dragon on the Arena Championship Series and finished 4th. In May, his daughter would marry Travis Mowery.
In 2020, Migues competed on the Arena Championship Series, where he would finish 6th after the tour was cancelled due to the pandemic.
In 2021, Darren's son in-law, Travis Mowery, joined his team with new truck Extreme Attitude. He also drove Wolf's Head as the teammate to Jack Brown's FTI Torque in Omaha.
In 2022, Migues would step away from driving, as Brad Allen would drive Nitro Menace for Arena Tour West. Darren filled in for Brad at an event in Wichita, which he won freestyle event during the final show. He also drove Jail Bird as a fill-in for Kaylyn in Denver for the same tour.
Shortly afterwards, Darren retired from driving, as he sold Nitro Menace and Jail Bird's chassis' to James Trantina III. He returned to driving in July to debut Brutal at a show in Oklahoma.
Accomplishments[]
- 2011 Monster Jam Rising Star of the Year award.
Trivia[]
- During the European airing of the 2009 Knoxville event, in which Darren Migues drove Bounty Hunter, his name was misspelled as "Derren Mingus" during the wheelie, racing and freestyle competitions, with Scott Douglass even pronouncing it that way throughout commentary.[1]
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