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Matt Mills

28-Year-Old Driver  
Niece Motorsports
2024 Stats
Points
328
Starts
23
Wins
0
Poles
0
Top 5
1
Top 10
2
2025 Fantasy Outlook
After five seasons of part-time competition in the truck series, Mills finally got his shot to impress with a full-time ride at Niece Motorsports in 2024. It would be an up-and-down uneven affair for the journeyman driver. Mills would only manage two Top 10's and six Top-20 finishes throughout last season and come home a lackluster 23rd-place in the final driver standings. However, Niece would be unphased and sign Mills to another season for 2025. He'll be back with the same team and crew chief in Mike Shiplett. That will hopefully spur Mills to some better results and performance growth in the upcoming season. Read Past Outlooks
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Car No. 42 Chevrolet
Crew Chief Mike Shiplett
Birth Date 11/14/1996
Born New Philadelphia, Ohio, United States
Country UNITED STATES
Returning at Texas
XFINITY Series
September 19, 2022
Mills (illness) is listed on the entry list for Saturday's NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports reports.
ANALYSIS
Mills has missed the last two Xfinity Series races due to an illness. Garrett Smithley and Brandon Brown have filled in behind on the wheel of the No. 5 car for BJ McLeod Motorsports at Kansas and Bristol, respectively. Mills finished 37th in the first race at Texas after getting involved in a crash.
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
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2019
Mills makes the move from part-time driver to full-time driver in 2024. The journeyman split 12 starts between the Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Series last season. Now Mills will get a full slate of races in the Niece Motorsports' Chevy truck. This is the same team that Carson Hocevar enjoyed a lot of success with over the past three years. He would grab four wins and 13 Top-10 finishes last season alone and challenge hotly for the championship. Mills will have some pretty big shoes to fill, and while he doesn't have the resume of accomplishments that Hocevar has, he does have some experience. Mills boasts close to 150 starts over the past seven seasons and is no newcomer to the truck series. He'll have some ups-and-downs along the way, but crew chief Phil Gould should help him succeed.
Mills and a supporting cast of multiple drivers made this small race team pretty competitive last season. The effort would lead to two Top-10 and six Top-20 finishes. While Mills would only make 14 of the starts for the team, they'd earn some good returns with the very capable supporting pilots of the No. 5 Chevrolet. Scheduling plans have not been announced as of this writing for the BJMM team. If Mills splits this car again with a similar driver lineup we should expect to see comparable results. The 26-year-old driver is still learning the ropes, but should continue to improve over time.
Mills has been a regular face for the BJMM team since 2019. He spent most of last season in the team's No. 5 Ford. Mills grabbed just three Top-20 finishes last season, but otherwise found it difficult to maintain the lead lap most weeks. It would all add up to a 28.3 average finish. Nothing has been announced by the team at this point, but it's expected that Mills will return to the No. 5 car again in 2022. The obvious goals for this driver and team is to become more competitive and to collect more Top-20 finishes in the upcoming season. Cracking the Top-25 in driver points would seem like a reasonable goal as well.
Mills returns for season three at B.J. McLeod Motorsports in 2021. The 24-year-old driver peddled the team's Chevrolet to three Top-15 and five Top-20 finishes last season. Most of those good performances come in the final third of the season, signaling that Mills is getting some traction in the No. 5 team. He'll get a full slate of action in the upcoming year with David Ingram as crew chief and steady sponsorship. Mills now has 71 starts of Xfinity Series experience to his credit. The time to start taking some steps forward has come.
The 23-year-old driver returns for a second season at B.J. McLeod Motorsports. Mills started 29 of the 33 events last season in the No. 5 Chevrolet. The young driver earned one Top-10 finish (summer Daytona race) and eight Top-20 finishes. The performance netted a 21st-place finish in the driver standings of 2019. It wasn't a bad effort for a driver of such limited experience. Mills will return to an intact team with good sponsorship and the same crew chief as last season. They will look to build on the foundation they laid in the last campaign, and improve through more consistency and less DNF's.
The 22-year-old Ohio native is tabbed to take one of BJMM's three full-time teams in 2019. Mills will pilot the No. 8 Chevrolet for the full season with JF Electric and Thompson Electric providing sponsorship. The young driver made just eight starts last season split between several teams, although he ended the year in the No. 8 car with crew chief George Ingram. We believe that combination will return in February at Daytona. With just 11-career starts over the past two seasons of Xfinity Series racing, Mills still has a lot to learn. So the campaign could get very bumpy at times.
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Out of Kansas Xfinity race
XFINITY Series
September 8, 2022
Mills (flu) will not drive the No. 5 car for BJ McLeon Motorsports at this Saturdy's NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Kansas, Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports reports.
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Returning to BJMM
XFINITY Series
January 20, 2022
The 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series season wasn't too kind to Mills. But he'll have a chance to rebound, as he will return to BJ McLeod Motorsports for his fourth full-time season, Dustin Albino of Jayski reports.
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Returning to BJ McLeod Motorsports
XFINITY Series
December 16, 2020
BJ McLeod Motorsports announced that 24-year-old New Philadelphia, Ohio native, Mills will return to the No. 5 entry full-time in 2021.
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Returning to B.J. McLeod Motorsports
XFINITY Series
January 9, 2020
BJ McLeod Motorsports announced that the team has resigned Mills for the full 2020 NASCAR XFINITY Series schedule. Mills, will pilot the No. 5 entry for the team with primary sponsorship from J.F. Electric, Utilitra, and Thompson Electric.
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Joins JD Motorsports for Xfinity Series
XFINITY Series
February 4, 2018
JD Motorsports announced Friday that Mills would join the team as a full-time driver in the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series season.
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