Chase Miller

Chase Miller
Chase Miller
	Miller at Road America in 2012
Born	January 28, 1987 (age 37); Canton, Georgia, U.S.
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
	96 races run over 7 years
2013 position	61st
Best finish	38th (2008)
First race	2007 Federated Auto Parts 300 (Nashville)
Last race	2013 5-hour Energy 200 (Dover)
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
	13 races run over 2 years
Best finish	38th (2006)
First race	2006 Sylvania 200 (Loudon)
Last race	2007 O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 (Kansas)
	Statistics current as of November 16, 2013.

Eldon Chase Miller (born January 28, 1987) is an American former stock car racing driver, who last competed in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (now the Xfinity Series) in 2013. He currently works for Front Row Motorsports as a mechanic.

Racing career

2005–2008: Dodge development driver

Miller joined the ARCA Re/Max Series in 2005 at age 18 as a driver in Dodge's driver development program, He made his debut at Nashville driving the Bobby Jones Racing No. 88 car, where he ran in the top-five for a part of the race before running out of gas. Then, at Gateway, Miller led multiple laps before falling out due to transmission trouble. In 2006, Miller was tapped by Dodge to drive for the larger Cunningham Motorsports team in their No. 4 in six ARCA races that year. After an 11th-place finish at Nashville, Miller charged to the win at Pocono.^[1] He set the record as the youngest driver to ever win an ARCA race at Pocono to that point. He then backed up his win with a dominating performance at the second annual ARCA Pocono event before a cylinder failure took him from the lead, with only eight laps remaining, and forced him to a fifth-place finish. He also qualified on the pole at Gateway and was leading the race when more mechanical problems plagued him. His outstanding performance won him the opportunity to compete in the Craftsman Truck Series with the Dodge Development Team.

Miller joined up with Bobby Hamilton Racing to drive their No. 4 truck near the end of the 2006 season, also as a part of the Dodge driver development program. In only his fourth start, Miller scored a top ten at Martinsville Speedway. He earned the ride for the full season in 2007. However, after five races, Miller and BHR parted ways.^[2] He was soon hired by Ray Evernham to drive a part-time schedule in his Busch Series team's No. 9 car. In only his second career start, Miller scored a second-place qualifying effort at Kentucky Speedway,^[3] and a best finish of fifteenth at Gateway. In 2008, he ran twelve races in the No. 9 car once again, with sponsorship from Unilever and Verizon Wireless, as well as two additional races in the No. 19 car for Evernham. He had two top-ten finishes and finished 38th in points in a part-time schedule.

2009–2013: Start and park career

Gillett Evernham closed their Nationwide Series team at the end of the year after the team's merger with Petty Enterprises, and Miller spent the first few months of the 2009 season without a ride, before he drove most of the second half of the season, going back and forth between the No. 91 MSRP Motorsports Chevrolet and the JTG Daugherty Racing No. 47 Toyota. He also ran one race at Memphis in Derrike Cope's No. 73. For 2010, Miller filled in for David Gilliland in the standalone races in the No. 91 for D'Hondt-Humphrey Motorsports (formerly MSRP). He also drove a few races for other teams that year as well, which were Specialty Racing in the No. 61 and MacDonald Motorsports in the No. 82. All three rides were start and park entries.

After running one race for Fleur-de-lis Motorsports in their No. 68, Miller found a solid ride about a third of the way into the 2011 season, driving the start-and-park No. 46 for Key Motorsports. He entered every race for the rest of the year starting at Iowa in May. He moved to two of Key's other cars for two races, with him in the No. 40 for Nashville and in the No. 42 for Montreal. In 2012, Miller drove for The Motorsports Group in the No. 46, start-and-parking for most of the season. At the start of 2013, he returned to start-and-park the TMG No. 46 for select races, but then left for TriStar Motorsports during the year,^[4] starting-and-parking in the team's No. 10 and No. 91 cars as well as in the No. 15 car for Rick Ware Racing.

2014–present: Crew member career

2013 was the last time that Miller was a driver. However, he remained employed at TriStar as a car chief for their No. 14 car of Eric McClure and Cale Conley^[5] and later a mechanic and crew chief for the team. According to his LinkedIn profile, in May 2015, he became TriStar's shop foreman, and after TriStar's Nationwide/Xfinity team was shut down in 2017, Miller joined Front Row Motorsports, where he currently works as a wiring mechanic.

Personal life

Chase graduated from Sequoyah High School.^{[citation needed]}. Also according to his LinkedIn, he is a graduate of Mitchell Community College.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Nationwide Series

NASCAR Nationwide Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	NNSC	Pts	Ref
2007	Evernham Motorsports	9	Dodge	DAY	CAL	MXC	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH 22	KEN 18	MLW 17	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY 15	IRP	CGV	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH								63rd	642	^[6]
2007	Gillett Evernham Motorsports																															DOV 16	KAN	CLT	MEM 24	TEX	PHO	HOM	63rd	642	^[6]
2008				DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH 14	TEX	PHO 21	MXC	TAL	RCH	DAR 8			NSH 11	KEN 39	MLW 23	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY 13	IRP 30	CGV	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL 23	RCH	DOV	KAN		MEM 6	TEX 23	PHO	HOM 20	38th	1386	^[7]
2008		19														CLT 36	DOV																	CLT 36					38th	1386	^[7]
2009	MSRP Motorsports	91	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI	TEX	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY 42	IRP	IOW 40	GLN						DOV 39								74th	442	^[8]
	JTG Daugherty Racing	47	Toyota																							MCH 37	BRI	CGV	ATL 39	RCH		KAN QL^†	CAL 43	CLT 41		TEX 39	PHO	HOM 37
	Derrike Cope Inc.	73	Dodge																																MEM 39
2010	D'Hondt Humphrey Motorsports	91	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI	NSH DNQ	PHO	TEX	TAL	RCH	DAR			NSH 39	KEN 39	ROA	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY 36	IRP 37	IOW 41					ATL 37	RCH	DOV	KAN			GTY 36				71st	478	^[9]
	D'Hondt Humphrey Motorsports	90	Chevy											DOV 40	CLT												BRI 40	CGV
	Specialty Racing	61	Ford																						GLN 39	MCH
	MacDonald Motorsports	82	Dodge																														CAL 41	CLT		TEX DNQ	PHO DNQ	HOM
2011	Fleur-de-lis Motorsports	68	Chevy	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	TAL	NSH	RCH	DAR	DOV	IOW 40																								46th	81	^[10]
	Key Motorsports	46	Chevy													CLT DNQ	CHI 41	MCH DNQ	ROA 40	DAY DNQ	KEN 41	NHA 39		IRP 41	IOW 39	GLN DNQ		BRI 40	ATL 40	RCH 42	CHI 40	DOV 39	KAN 39	CLT DNQ	TEX 39	PHO 38	HOM 38
		40																					NSH 31
		42																									CGV DNQ
2012	The Motorsports Group	46		DAY DNQ	PHO 41	LVS 39	BRI 40	CAL 38	TEX 39	RCH 42	TAL 41	DAR 41	IOW 43	CLT 40	DOV	MCH 38	ROA 40	KEN 39	DAY 40	NHA 38	CHI 40	IND 41	IOW 42	GLN	CGV 42	BRI 43	ATL 38	RCH 42	CHI 42	KEN 39	DOV 38	CLT 37	KAN 43	TEX DNQ	PHO 42	HOM 41			44th	107	^[11]
2013		46		DAY	PHO 39	LVS DNQ	BRI 39	CAL DNQ	TEX DNQ	RCH DNQ	TAL	DAR 39	CLT	DOV	IOW	MCH	ROA	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI	IND	IOW	GLN															61st	48	^[12]
		42				LVS 39
	TriStar Motorsports	10	Toyota																						MOH 39		ATL 38	RCH 39	CHI	KEN
	TriStar Motorsports	91	Toyota																							BRI 39
	Rick Ware Racing	15	Chevy																												DOV 37	KAN DNQ	CLT	TEX	PHO	HOM
^† - Qualified but replaced by Michael McDowell

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	NCTC	Pts	Ref
2006	Bobby Hamilton Racing	4	Dodge	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR	GTY	CLT	MFD	DOV	TEX	MCH	MLW	KAN	KEN	MEM	IRP	NSH	BRI	NHA 17	LVS 32	TAL 21	MAR 10	ATL 33	TEX 30	PHO 35	HOM 32	38th	675	^[13]
2007	Bobby Hamilton Racing	4	Dodge	DAY 22	CAL 14	ATL 34	MAR 32	KAN 19	CLT	MFD	DOV	TEX	MCH	MLW	MEM	KEN	IRP	NSH	BRI	GTW	NHA	LVS	TAL	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM	47th	452	^[14]

K&N Pro Series West

NASCAR K&N Pro Series West results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	NKNPSWC	Pts	Ref
2012	Bob Wood	14	Ford	PHO	LHR	MMP	S99	IOW	BIR	LVS	SON	EVG	CNS	IOW DNQ	PIR	SMP	AAS	PHO	N/A	0	^[15]

ARCA Re/Max Series