ML Motorsports
| Owner(s) |
Mary Louise Miller Stephanie Mullen |
|---|---|
| Base | Warsaw, Indiana |
| Series | Nationwide Series |
| Manufacturer | Chevrolet |
| Career | |
| Debut | 2006 Circuit City 250 |
| Races competed | 141 |
| Drivers' Championships | 0 |
| Race victories | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
ML Motorsports was an auto racing organization that competes in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. It was owned jointly by Mary Louise Miller and her daughter, Stephanie Mullen, making it the first confirmed NASCAR team to be owned jointly by a mother and daughter team. The team fielded the No. 70 Chevrolet from 2006-2013.
ML Motorsports debuted in 1999 in what is now the ARCA RE/MAX Series. It fielded the No. 67 Biomet/EBI Sports Medicine Chevy at the season-opening First Plus Financial 200 for Jimmy Kitchens, who finished 12th. Kitchens ran another race for the team at Atlanta, before leaving the team to concentrate on his Busch Series ride with Carroll Racing. He was replaced for the next three races by Andy Hillenburg, who registered a best finish of 8th at Salem Speedway. Kitchens returned to the team at this time and drove the next six races, his best finish coming at Pocono, where he finished sixth. After taking the next several races off, ML Racing returned to run the final four races of the season with Brian Ross and had a career-best finish of fourth at the season finale at Atlanta. Ross joined the team for a full season in 2000. With sponsorship from Biomet, Damon RV, Invisible Glass, and Stoner Care Car Products, Ross won two poles, had nine top-fives (including two second-place finishes) and was named Rookie of the Year.
In 2001, Ross left the series and was replaced by Jason Jarrett. He won at Kansas Speedway and finished second in the points, winning Rookie of the Year honors. He had fourteen top-tens in 2002, and sixteen in 2003, and did not finish worse than third in points in either of those years, but went winless during both seasons. ML got new sponsorship from Bennigan's and Gladiator GarageWorks in 2004, in which Jarrett won his second and final race at Salem. He was replaced by Chad Blount in 2005 and Foretravel Motorcoach became the team's new sponsor. Blount won four times before the team suspended operations for the rest of the season to focus on building its Busch Series operation. It returned to the series briefly to run five races in 2005 with Justin Diercks driving. They only finished one race, a fifteenth-place finish at Kentucky Speedway.
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