Matt Mills (racing driver)

Matt Mills
File:MattMillsRVA18.png Mills at Richmond Raceway in 2018
Born	Matthew Robert Mills (1996-11-14) November 14, 1996 Lynchburg, Virginia, U.S.
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)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
121 races run over 7 years
Car no., team	No. 53 (Emerling-Gase Motorsports)
2022 position	96th
Best finish	21st (2019)
First race	2017 DC Solar 200 (Phoenix)
Last race	2023 Shriners Children's 200 (Darlington)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
21 races run over 5 years
Truck no., team	No. 20 (Young's Motorsports) No. 51 (Kyle Busch Motorsports)
2022 position	97th
Best finish	42nd (2016, 2017)
First race	2016 UNOH 200 (Bristol)
Last race	2023 Worldwide Express 250 (Richmond)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
Statistics current as of June 3, 2023.

Matthew Robert Mills (born November 14, 1996) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 20 Chevrolet Silverado for Young's Motorsports and the No. 51 Silverado for Kyle Busch Motorsports and part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 53 Ford Mustang for Emerling-Gase Motorsports. He has also previously competed in the NASCAR Cup Series.

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, 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.

Craftsman 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. He made his first start at Bristol Motor Speedway in August, finishing 27th. 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.

In 2017, he joined Faith Motorsports for three races because the team primary driver Donnie Levister was unapproved by NASCAR to run intermediate tracks. He ran seventeenth in two of them, career-best finishes, before he joined Martins Motorsports to run in multiple races in the truck No. 42 with sponsorship from Thompson Electric Inc. starting in Iowa. 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. 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.

Mills drove the No. 20 truck for Young's Motorsports part-time in 2022 in addition to running the majority of the Xfinity Series season for B. J. McLeod Motorsports in their No. 5 car. He returned to the team in 2023 to drive their No. 20 truck again at Las Vegas in March.

Xfinity Series

In March 2017, Mills was named the driver for B. J. McLeod Motorsports' No. 8 entry at Phoenix 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. He returned to the series over a month later at Richmond, again driving McLeod's No. 8. His next start in the series came at Chicago in September with JD Motorsports, start and parking their fourth car, the No. 15. In the season's final weekend, he failed to qualify with startup team NextGen Motorsports.

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. He had previously been in consideration for the team's No. 0 car, which ultimately was driven by Garrett Smithley. 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. 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.

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. 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.

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.

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
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	DRC	HOM	LVS	PHO	ATL	BRD	MAR	RCH	TAL	KAN 38	DAR	DOV	COA	CLT	SON	NSH	POC	POC	ROA	ATL	NHA	GLN	IRC	MCH	DAY	DAR	RCH	BRI	LVS	TAL	ROV	TEX	KAN	MAR	PHO	67th	01

Xfinity Series

NASCAR Xfinity 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	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
	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
		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	ROV
		8																														DOV 28	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM
2019		5	Toyota	DAY 26								TAL 17			POC 30				DAY 10																		21st	372
			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
		99																												RCH 28	ROV
		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	ROV 25	KAN 25	TEX 13			25th	346
			Chevy		LVS 25	CAL 27	PHO DNQ	DAR 34	CLT 30	BRI 25	ATL 30	HOM 27	HOM 24		POC 25	IRC 30						DRC 22	DOV 33	DOV 30			RCH 13	RCH 13	BRI 22						MAR 38	PHO 35
		99																								DAR 22
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
			Toyota		DRC 19	HOM 29					TAL 25		DOV 27	COA		MOH 23	TEX 26						GLN 38	IRC		DAY 33					TAL 23	ROV 30
		99	Chevy																										BRI 36				TEX 32	KAN 25
2022		5		DAY 25	CAL 23	LVS 35	PHO	ATL 31	COA		MAR 18	TAL 31	DOV 31	DAR 31	TEX 37					ATL 37										TEX 16	TAL	ROV	LVS 35	HOM 32	MAR 35	PHO DNQ	96th	01
		55								RCH DNQ						CLT 20	PIR
		99																NSH DNQ	ROA
		78																			NHA 22	POC	IRC	MCH 38	GLN
			Toyota																							DAY 24	DAR	KAN	BRI
2023	Emerling-Gase Motorsports	53	Ford	DAY	CAL	LVS	PHO	ATL	COA	RCH	MAR 22	TAL	DOV	DAR 28	CLT	PIR	SON	NSH	CSC	ATL	NHA	POC	ROA	MCH	IRC	GLN	DAY	DAR	KAN	BRI	TEX	ROV	LVS	HOM	MAR	PHO	-*	-*

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	NCTC	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
2017	Faith Motorsports	44	Chevy	DAY	ATL	MAR	KAN 17	CLT 24	DOV 17	TEX	GTW	IOW															42nd	50
	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
2022	Young's Motorsports	20	Chevy	DAY	LVS 15	ATL 35	COA	MAR	BRD	DAR	KAN 34	TEX	CLT 34	GTW DNQ	SON	KNX	NSH	MOH	POC	IRP	RCH	KAN	BRI	TAL	HOM	PHO	97th	01
2023				DAY	LVS 26	ATL	COA	TEX 31	BRD	MAR	KAN	DAR	NWS	CLT 30	GTW 19	NSH	MOH 22	POC									-*	-*
	Kyle Busch Motorsports	51	Chevy																RCH 5	IRP	MLW	KAN	BRI	TAL	HOM	PHO

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

External links

• Official website
• Matt Mills driver statistics at Racing-Reference