Chase Miller | |||||||
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![]() Miller atRoad America in 2012 | |||||||
Born | (1987-01-28)January 28, 1987 (age 38) Canton, Georgia, U.S. | ||||||
NASCARXfinity Series career | |||||||
96 races run over 7 years | |||||||
2013 position | 61st | ||||||
Best finish | 38th (2008) | ||||||
First race | 2007Federated Auto Parts 300 (Nashville) | ||||||
Last race | 20135-hour Energy 200 (Dover) | ||||||
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NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
13 races run over 2 years | |||||||
Best finish | 38th (2006) | ||||||
First race | 2006Sylvania 200 (Loudon) | ||||||
Last race | 2007O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 (Kansas) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of November 16, 2013. |
Eldon Chase Miller (born January 28, 1987) is an American formerstock car racing driver, who last competed in theNASCAR Nationwide Series (now the Xfinity Series) in 2013. He currently works forFront Row Motorsports as a mechanic.
Miller joined theARCA Re/Max Series in2005 at age 18 as a driver inDodge's driver development program, He made his debut atNashville 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, atGateway, Miller led multiple laps before falling out due to transmission trouble. In2006, Miller was tapped by Dodge to drive for the largerCunningham Motorsports team in their No. 4 in six ARCA races that year. After an 11th-place finish at Nashville, Miller charged to the win atPocono.[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 withBobby Hamilton Racing to drive their No. 4 truck near the end of the2006 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 in2007. However, after five races, Miller and BHR parted ways.[2] He was soon hired byRay Evernham to drive a part-time schedule inhis Busch Series team's No. 9 car. In only his second career start, Miller scored a second-place qualifying effort atKentucky 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 fromUnilever andVerizon 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.
Gillett Evernham closed their Nationwide Series team at the end of the year after the team's merger withPetty Enterprises, and Miller spent the first few months of the2009 season without a ride, before he drove most of the second half of the season, going back and forth between the No. 91MSRP MotorsportsChevrolet and theJTG Daugherty Racing No. 47Toyota. He also ran one race atMemphis inDerrike Cope's No. 73. For2010, Miller filled in forDavid 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 wereSpecialty Racing in the No. 61 andMacDonald Motorsports in the No. 82. All three rides werestart 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 the2011 season, driving the start-and-park No. 46 forKey Motorsports. He entered every race for the rest of the year starting atIowa 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 forMontreal. In2012, Miller drove forThe Motorsports Group in the No. 46, start-and-parking for most of the season. At the start of2013, he returned to start-and-park the TMG No. 46 for select races, but then left forTriStar 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 forRick Ware Racing.
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 ofEric McClure andCale 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 joinedFront Row Motorsports, where he currently works as a wiring mechanic.
Chase graduated fromSequoyah High School.[citation needed]. Also according to his LinkedIn, he is a graduate ofMitchell Community College.
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points
NASCAR Craftsman 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 | 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 | 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] |
NASCAR K&N Pro Series West results | |||||||||||||||||||||
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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] |
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
ARCA Re/Max 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 | ARMC | Pts | Ref |
2005 | Bobby Jones Racing | 88 | Dodge | DAY | NSH 26 | SLM | KEN | TOL DNQ | LAN | MIL | POC | MCH | KAN | KEN | BLN | POC | GTW 23 | LER | NSH | MCH 16 | ISF | TOL | DSF | CHI | SLM | TAL | 76th | 395 | [16] |
2006 | Cunningham Motorsports | 4 | Dodge | DAY | NSH 11 | SLM | WIN | KEN | TOL | POC 1 | MCH | KAN | KEN | BLN | POC 5* | GTW 33 | NSH | MCH | ISF | MIL 12 | TOL | DSF | CHI | SLM | 38th | 1095 | [17] | ||
Eddie Sharp Racing | 22 | Dodge | TAL 9 | IOW | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008 | Gillett Evernham Motorsports | 9 | Dodge | DAY | SLM | IOW | KAN | CAR | KEN | TOL | POC | MCH | CAY | KEN | BLN | POC 3 | NSH | ISF | DSF | CHI | SLM | NJE | TAL | TOL | 90th | 215 | [18] | ||
2009 | Cunningham Motorsports | 4 | Dodge | DAY | SLM | CAR | TAL | KEN | TOL | POC 16 | MCH 3 | MFD | IOW | KEN | BLN | POC | ISF | CHI | TOL | DSF | NJE | SLM | KAN | CAR | 72nd | 365 | [19] |