Matt Mills (racing driver)
Matt Mills | |||||||
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Born | Matthew R. Mills November 14, 1996 Lynchburg, Virginia | ||||||
NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
1 race run over 1 year | |||||||
2021 position | 67th | ||||||
Best finish | 67th (2021) | ||||||
First race | 2021 Buschy McBusch Race 400 (Kansas) | ||||||
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NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
101 races run over 5 years | |||||||
Car no., team | No.5 (BJ McLeod Motorsports) | ||||||
2021 position | 29th | ||||||
Best finish | 21st (2019) | ||||||
First race | 2017 DC Solar 200 (Phoenix) | ||||||
Last race | 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race (Phoenix) | ||||||
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career | |||||||
11 races run over 3 years | |||||||
2018 position | 113th | ||||||
Best finish | 42nd (2016, 2017) | ||||||
First race | 2016 UNOH 200 (Bristol) | ||||||
Last race | 2018 Corrigan Oil 200 (Michigan) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of December 26, 2021. |
Matthew R. Mills (born November 14, 1996)[1] is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 5 Chevrolet Camaro/Toyota Supra.
Racing career[]
Early years[]
Mills started racing at age twelve in go-karts. A year later, he moved up to Junior Champ Karts and spent three years racing those. Mills started racing Open Wheel Modifieds at Midvale Speedway in 2012, winning rookie of the year and moving up to Outlaw Super Late Models in 2013. He attended a rookie seminar for NASCAR at Daytona Beach, Florida the following year and received clearance to race in the ARCA Racing Series and K&N Pro Series,[1] but has yet to race in either of those series, instead running a limited schedule in the JEGS/CRA Pro Series in 2015 as well as continuing his late model career.[2]
Camping World Truck Series[]
On June 29, 2016, it was announced that Mills would join SS-Green Light Racing for "select races" in the 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.[3] He made his first start at Bristol Motor Speedway in August,[4] finishing 27th.[5] Mills ran four more races for SS-Green Light in 2016, scoring a best finish of 21st in the season's penultimate race at Phoenix International Raceway.[6]
In 2017, he joined Faith Motorsports for three races because team primary driver Donnie Levister was unapproved by NASCAR to run intermediate tracks. He ran seventeenth in two of them, career-best finishes,[7] before he joined Martins Motorsports to run in multiple races in the truck No. 42 with sponsorship from Thompson Electric Inc. starting in Iowa.[8] The truck never hit the track at Iowa and was never entered thereafter, however, the truck was included in the original edition of the 2017 video game NASCAR Heat 2.[9] He drove the No. 44 for Martins the following week but fell out due to an accident. He then start and parked with Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing for a few races in the latter part of 2017.[10]
Xfinity Series[]
In March 2017, Mills was named the driver for B. J. McLeod Motorsports' No. 8 entry at Phoenix[11][12] in what looked to be a one race deal, replacing regular driver Jeff Green who had been signed to run the full season. Mills finished 30th in his debut.[13] He returned to the series over a month later at Richmond, again driving McLeod's No. 8.[14] His next start in the series came at Chicago in September with JD Motorsports, start and parking their fourth car, the No. 15.[15] In the season's final weekend, he failed to qualify with startup team NextGen Motorsports.[16]
On February 2, 2018, it was announced that Mills will drive the No. 15 car for all but one race in 2018, skipping the season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway.[17] He had previously been in consideration for the team's No. 0 car, which ultimately was driven by Garrett Smithley.[18] He did not qualify for the Texas race in April because of inspection issues. The agreement wound up falling through, as Mills was replaced by Joe Nemechek for the Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway.[19] Mills returned for a couple more races but parted ways with JDM after the June Michigan race. He made a start for DGR-Crosley in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at Michigan in August, but wrecked, self-admittedly due to inexperience.[20]
Mills returned to B. J. McLeod Motorsports for some fall Xfinity races, eventually becoming the team's full-time driver of the No. 8 in 2019.[21] However, the number changed to 5 after the team agreed to give up their No. 8 for JR Motorsports in a number swap, and McLeod's team received the No. 5, the car number JRM dropped so they could get the No. 8.[22]
Cup Series[]
On April 26, 2021, B. J. McLeod Motorsports announced that they would be fielding a Cup Series car in the spring race at Kansas, the No. 55, and that Mills would be the driver. It was his debut in the series. Although BJMM uses Chevrolets or Toyotas in the Xfinity Series, the car in this race was a Ford from McLeod's Live Fast Motorsports team, which he fields in the Cup Series but is a separate entity from BJMM.[23]
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.)
Cup Series[]
NASCAR Cup Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | 36 | NCSC | Pts | Ref |
2021 | B. J. McLeod Motorsports | 55 | Ford | DAY | DAY | HOM | LVS | PHO | ATL | BRI | MAR | RCH | TAL | KAN 38 |
DAR | DOV | COA | CLT | SON | NSH | POC | POC | ROA | ATL | NHA | GLN | IND | MCH | DAY | DAR | RCH | BRI | LVS | TAL | CLT | TEX | KAN | MAR | PHO | 67th | 01 | [24] |
Xfinity Series[]
NASCAR Xfinity Series results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | NXSC | Pts | Ref | ||
2017 | B. J. McLeod Motorsports | 8 | Chevy | DAY | ATL | LVS | PHO 30 |
CAL | TEX | BRI | RCH 31 |
TAL | CLT | DOV | POC | MCH | IOW | DAY | KEN | NHA | IND | IOW | GLN | MOH | BRI | ROA | DAR | RCH | 109th | 01 | [25] | ||||||||||
JD Motorsports | 15 | CHI 40 |
KEN | DOV | CLT | KAN | TEX | PHO | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NextGen Motorsports | 55 | Toyota | HOM DNQ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 | JD Motorsports | 0 | Chevy | DAY | ATL 36 |
LVS 27 |
53rd | 43 | [26] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | PHO 38 |
CAL 37 |
TEX DNQ |
BRI | RCH | TAL | DOV | CLT | POC 27 |
MCH 36 |
IOW | CHI | DAY | KEN | NHA | IOW | GLN | MOH | BRI | ROA | DAR | IND | LVS | ||||||||||||||||||
B. J. McLeod Motorsports | 78 | Chevy | RCH 27 |
CLT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | DOV 28 |
KAN | TEX | PHO | HOM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | 5 | Toyota | DAY 26 |
TAL 17 |
POC 30 |
DAY 10 |
21st | 372 | [27] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chevy | ATL 30 |
LVS 29 |
PHO 28 |
CAL 23 |
TEX 27 |
BRI 21 |
RCH 28 |
DOV 31 |
CLT 26 |
MCH 24 |
IOW 26 |
CHI 27 |
KEN 23 |
NHA 20 |
IOW 18 |
GLN | MOH | BRI 18 |
ROA | DAR 31 |
IND 25 |
LVS 24 |
DOV 24 |
KAN 20 |
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99 | RCH 28 |
CLT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | TEX 18 |
PHO 19 |
HOM 30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020 | 5 | Toyota | DAY 31 |
TAL 38 |
KEN 30 |
KEN 19 |
TEX 26 |
KAN 26 |
ROA | DAY 16 |
LVS 30 |
TAL 21 |
CLT 25 |
KAN 25 |
TEX 13 |
25th | 346 | [28] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Chevy | LVS 25 |
CAL 27 |
PHO DNQ |
DAR 34 |
CLT 30 |
BRI 25 |
ATL 30 |
HOM 27 |
HOM 24 |
POC 25 |
IND 30 |
DAY 22 |
DOV 33 |
DOV 30 |
RCH 13 |
RCH 13 |
BRI 22 |
MAR 38 |
PHO 35 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | DAR 22 |
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2021 | 5 | DAY 16 |
LVS 39 |
PHO 35 |
ATL 34 |
MAR 33 |
DAR 40 |
CLT 35 |
NSH 25 |
POC 23 |
ROA | ATL 26 |
NHA 32 |
MCH 14 |
DAR 23 |
RCH 21 |
LVS 28 |
MAR 29 |
PHO 29 |
29th | 271 | [29] | |||||||||||||||||||
Toyota | DAY 19 |
HOM 29 |
TAL 25 |
DOV 27 |
COA | MOH 23 |
TEX 26 |
GLN 38 |
IND | DAY 33 |
TAL 23 |
CLT 30 |
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99 | Chevy | BRI 36 |
TEX 32 |
KAN 25 |
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2022 | 5 | TBA | DAY | CAL | LVS | PHO | ATL | COA | RCH | MAR | TAL | DOV | DAR | TEX | CLT | PIR | NSH | ROA | ATL | NHA | POC | IND | MCH | GLN | DAY | DAR | KAN | BRI | TEX | TAL | CLT | LVS | HOM | MAR | PHO | -* | -* |
Camping World Truck Series[]
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | NCWTC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||||
2016 | SS-Green Light Racing | 07 | Chevy | DAY | ATL | MAR | KAN | DOV | CLT | TEX | IOW | GTW | KEN | ELD | POC | BRI 27 |
MCH | MSP | CHI | NHA 23 |
LVS | TAL | MAR | TEX 29 |
PHO 21 |
HOM | 42nd | 32 | [30] | |||||||||||||||
2017 | Faith Motorsports | 44 | Chevy | DAY | ATL | MAR | KAN 17 |
CLT 24 |
DOV 17 |
TEX | GTW | IOW | 42nd | 50 | [31] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Martins Motorsports | KEN 29 |
ELD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing | 0 | Chevy | POC 27 |
MCH | BRI | MSP | CHI | NHA | LVS 25 |
TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO | HOM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 | DGR-Crosley | 54 | Toyota | DAY | ATL | LVS | MAR | DOV | KAN | CLT | TEX | IOW | GTW | CHI | KEN | ELD | POC | MCH 31 |
BRI | MSP | LVS | TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO | HOM | 113th | 01 | [32] |
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points
References[]
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(help) - ^ "Season Preview: Matt Mills". Retrieved 2017-04-25.
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- ^ "Matt Mills to Make Truck Debut at Bristol". www.onpitroad.com. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
- ^ "TRUCKS: Matt Crafton scores first career NASCAR last-place finish". brock.lastcar.info. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
- ^ "Driver Matt Mills 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
- ^ "NCWTS: Matt Mills Matches Career-Best Finish at Dover – Rubbings Racing". rubbingsracing.com. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
- ^ "Martins Motorsports returns to Truck Series competition with Matt Mills in Iowa". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
- ^ "NASCAR Heat 2 NCWTS Roster – NASCAR Heat". NASCAR Heat. 2017-07-19. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
- ^ "Driver Matt Mills 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
- ^ "Matt Mills Joins BJ McLeod Motorsports At Phoenix » Race Pro Weekly". raceproweekly.com. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
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- ^ Herbst, Alex (2018-01-16). "NASCAR: JD Motorsports expanding to four cars in 2018". Beyond the Flag. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
- ^ "Joe Nemechek to drive for JDM at Bristol". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
- ^ Catanzareti, Zach. "Matt Mills Striving for Seat Time Following Time Away". KickinTheTires.net. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ "BJ McLeod Motorsports announces it is expanding to three (3) full time NASCAR Xfinity Series teams in 2019". B. J. McLeod Motorsports. January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
- ^ "BJ McLeod Motorsports Reveals the Replacement of the NASCAR Xfinity Series Car No. 8". B. J. McLeod Motorsports. February 1, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^ "Matt Mills to make Cup debut at Kansas Speedway with B.J. McLeod Motorsports". Jayski's Silly Season Site. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. April 26, 2021.
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- ^ "Matt Mills – 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^ "Matt Mills – 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
- ^ "Matt Mills – 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
- ^ "Matt Mills – 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
- ^ "Matt Mills – 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^ "Matt Mills – 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^ "Matt Mills – 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
External links[]
- Official website
- Matt Mills driver statistics at Racing-Reference
- NASCAR drivers
- Racing drivers from Virginia
- 1996 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Lynchburg, Virginia