Chase Miller

Eldon Chase Miller (born January 28, 1987, in Canton, Georgia) is an American stock car racing driver, who competes in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. As of 2014, he works as the car chief for the 14 Hefty/Reynolds Wrap Toyota Camry of TriStar Motorsports.^[1]

Personal life

Chase graduated from Sequoyah High School.

Career

ARCA

Miller joined this series in 2005 at the age of 18 made his ARCA debut at Nashville Superspeedway. In that race he moved to the top-five before running out of gas. Then, at Gateway International Raceway, Miller led multiple laps before falling out due to transmission trouble. Miller was then tapped by Dodge Motorsports to drive their Cunningham Motorsports #4 Driver Development Dodge in six ARCA races in 2006. After an 11th-place finish at Nashville, Miller charged to the win at Pocono Raceway.^[2] 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.

Trucks to Busch

The #46 Key Motorsports entry in 2011

Miller joined up with Bobby Hamilton Racing near the end of the 2006 season as a part of the Dodge Driver Development Program. In only his fourth start, Miller scored a top ten at Martinsville Speedway. He was signed to drive the #4 Dodge Development Open Joist Dodge Ram for the full 2007 season. However, after five races Dodge discontinued their Driver Development Program and Miller and BHR parted ways.^[3] He was soon hired by Ray Evernham to drive a part-time schedule in his Busch Series #9 car. In only his second career start, Miller scored a second-place qualifying effort at Kentucky Speedway,^[4] and a best finish of fifteenth at Gateway. In 2008, he ran twelve races in the #9 car once again, with sponsorship from Unilever and Verizon Wireless, as well as two additional races in the #19 car for Evernham. He had two top-ten finishes and finished 38th in points in a part-time schedule. This team closed at the end of the year, and he spent the first several months unemployed, before he signed to drive the #91 MSRP Motorspots car for a few races and finished the season at JTG Daugherty. During the 2010 season, he filled in for David Gilliland in the #91 Toyota for Eddie D'Hondt. Without a solid ride for 2011, Chase drove the #68 for new team Fleur-de-lis Motorsports and the #46 for Key Motorsports, with both rides being start and park entries.

In 2012, Miller drove for The Motorsports Group in the No. 46, start-and-parking for most of the season; in 2013 he returned to the team for selected races, also driving for TriStar Motorsports in the team's No. 91 at Bristol Motor Speedway.^[5]

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
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
2007	Gillett Evernham Motorsports																															DOV 16	KAN	CLT	MEM 24	TEX	PHO	HOM	63rd	642
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
2008		19														CLT 36	DOV																	CLT 36					38th	1386
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
	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
	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
	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
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
		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 for Michael McDowell

Camping World Truck Series

NASCAR Camping World 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	NCWTC	Pts
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
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

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

References

↑ "The Teams". TriStar Motorsports. TriStar Motorsports. 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
↑ "Miller wins ARCA Pocno race". Star-News. Wilmington, NC. June 10, 2006. p. 3C. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
↑ "NASCAR REPORT: Bowyer on pole for attrition 500". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA). May 12, 2007. p. D10. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
↑ Ashenfelter, Mark (June 13, 2008). "Miller will have his hands full in 12th career start at Kentucky". ESPN. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
↑ "TriStar Motorsports Notes and Quotes – Bristol". Speedway Media. August 22, 2013. Retrieved 2013-08-24.

External links

Official website
Chase Miller driver statistics at Racing-Reference

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