Butch Miller (racing driver)

Henry "Butch" Miller
Born	June 5, 1952 Coopersville, Michigan, United States
Achievements	1987, 1988, 1994 American Speed Association Champion 1988 ARTGO Challenge Series champion
Awards	1995 NASCAR SuperTruck Series Most Popular Driver
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career
41 races run over 6 years
Best finish	27th (1990)
First race	1986 Valleydale 500 (Bristol)
Last race	1994 AC-Delco 500 (Rockingham)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
93 races run over 8 years
Best finish	7th (1992)
First race	1985 Budweiser 200 (Bristol)
Last race	2002 Sam's Town 250 (Memphis)
First win	1986 Kroger 200 (ORP)
Last win	1991 Mountain Dew 400 (Hickory)
Wins Top tens Poles 2 11 4
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
149 races run over 13 years
2011 position	49th
Best finish	4th (1995)
First race	1995 Skoal Bandit Copper World Classic (Phoenix)
Last race	2011 Coca-Cola 250 (Talladega)
First win	1995 Total Petroleum 200 (Colorado)
Last win	1995 Total Petroleum 200 (Colorado)
Wins Top tens Poles 1 51 1
Statistics current as of March 8, 2012.

Henry "Butch" Miller (born June 5, 1952 in Coopersville, Michigan) is a retired NASCAR driver. He is a multi-time champion in the now-defunct American Speed Association stock car series.

NASCAR

Early career

In 1985, Miller ran his first Busch Series races, driving for LeRoy Throop, driving the No. 08 MSW Spyders Pontiac in four events. He made four races, and had a 2nd-place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway. The next year, in 1986, he went to victory lane at the Indianapolis Raceway Park. That same season, he made his Winston Cup debut, finishing 16th in his first race. He ran two Cup races the next season for Throop, and then two races in the No. 31 Slender You Figure Salons Oldsmobile for Bob Clark in 1988. In 1989, he returned to Throop in the No. 51 for nine races. Despite getting sponsorship from Fruit of the Loom, he was only able to finish two races. He signed with Travis Carter Enterprises to drive the No. 98 Chevrolet Lumina for 1990, with sponsorship from Banquet Foods, IGA, and Piggy Wiggly. He drove in the first 23 races of the season, and had a career-best 8th-place finish at Pocono Raceway, but was released near the end of the season.

He ran his first full Busch Series season in 1991, beginning in the No. 52 31-W Insulation Chevy with Day Enterprise Racing. He won his most recent race early in the season at Hickory, but left in the middle of the season to join the No. 75 Food Country U.S.A. Oldsmobile for Henderson Brothers Motorsports. In 1992, as he scored 10 top tens and finished 7th in points. He ran nine races in 1993 before he was released, and spent the rest of the season out of NASCAR. He ran two Cup races in 1994, driving the No. 55 Ford Thunderbird for RaDiUs Racing.

Truck Series

In 1995, he joined the fledging Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 98 Raybestos/Herrick Racing Ford. He won a race at Colorado National Speedway beating Mike Skinner by 0.001 seconds in the closest finish in series history^[1] and finished 4th in points. He continued to run full-time through 1998. He stayed with Herrick until the latter part of 1996, where he ran some races for Ernie Irvan and Walker Evans. He signed with Evans full-time for the 1997, where he had twelve top-tens in the No. 20 Orleans Hotel & Casino Ford. In 1998, Miller moved to L&R Racing as driver of the No. 18 Dana Dodge Ram. He fell to fifteenth in points, but took the No. 18 and Dana to Bobby Hamilton Racing for the 1999 season. Miller made nine races in 1999 for Hamilton when he resigned from the team to move back to the Busch Series, replacing Stanton Barrett in the No. 40 Channellock Chevy for Galaxy Motorsports. He had two top-ten finishes in six starts, but after two consecutive DNQ's, he was released.

More importantly, Butch Miller won the most prestigious stock car race in America - The Snowball Derby - in 1987.

Return to racing

After that season, Miller stayed out of driving until 2002, serving briefly as crew chief for Larry Foyt's ASA team, as well serving as a broadcaster for ASA races. He returned to the Truck Series at Daytona International Speedway, finishing seventeenth in the No. 61 Delco Remy/Team Rensi Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado. A few weeks later, he returned to Henderson and the Busch Series and made ten starts, his best finish being a fifteenth. After another year out of the series, he returned to drive a pair of Truck races in the No. 20 Timber Wolf for Ken Weaver and No. 08 ASI Limited for Gene Christensen, respectively. The following season, he drove in three races for Green Light Racing, and had a tenth-place finish at Mansfield Motorsports Park. He ran another pair of races for Green Light in 2006, but could not finish higher than 26th. After another season off, he drove in nine races for Green Light in the No. 0/No. 07 Silverado for SS-Green Light, but did not finish a race. Miller drove for SS-Green Light on and off between 2009–2011, but primarily served under the role of crew chief to the multitude of young drivers piloting the No. 07

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

Winston Cup Series

Year	Starts	Wins	Top 5	Top 10	Poles	Avg. Start	Avg. Finish	Winnings	Position	Team(s)
1986	3	0	0	0	0	23.3	23.3	$5,085	75th	No. 08 Miller Racing
1987	2	0	0	0	0	35.0	37.5	$3,415	102nd	No. 07 Miller Racing
1988	2	0	0	0	0	8.5	21.0	$5,905	92nd	No. 31 Bob Clark Motorsports
1989	9	0	0	0	0	21.7	33.0	$22,520	39th	Nos. 51, 1 Miller Racing
1990	23	0	0	1	0	27.9	20.2	$151,941	27th	No. 98 Travis Carter Enterprises
1994	2	0	0	0	0	39.5	19.0	$17,335	53rd	No. 55 RaDiUs Motorsports

Busch Series

Year	Starts	Wins	Top 5	Top 10	Poles	Avg. Start	Avg. Finish	Winnings	Position	Team(s)
1985	4	0	1	1	0	13.8	13.0	$5,775	72nd	Nos. 08,62 Miller Racing
1986	3	1	1	2	0	11.0	12.0	$10,870	54th	No. 08 Miller Racing
1989	1	0	0	1	0	7.0	9.0	$950	100th	No. 75 Henderson Motorsports
1991	28	1	3	7	1	17.0	16.2	$71,507	16th	No. 52 Day Enterprise Racing No. 00 Mark Beard Racing No. 37 Burgess Racing No. 75 Henderson Motorsports
1992	31	0	4	10	2	14.9	14.9	$131,991	7th	No. 75 Henderson Motorsports
1993	10	0	2	4	1	14.6	15.5	$47,848	31st	No. 75 Henderson Motorsports
1999	6	0	0	2	0	28.0	17.7	$64,305	59th	No. 40 Galaxy Motorsports
2002	10	0	0	0	0	30.9	24.1	$128,060	47th	No. 75 Henderson Motorsports

Camping World Truck Series

NASCAR Camping World 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	24	25	26	27	NCWTC	Pts
1995	Liberty Racing	98	Ford	PHO 7	TUS 9	SGS 4	MMR 5	POR 3	EVG 3	I70 3	LVL 3	BRI 3	MLW 18	CNS 1	HPT 8	IRP 12	FLM 14	RCH 35	MAR 25	NWS 2	SON 7	MMR 6	PHO 22								4th	2812
1996				HOM 24	PHO 3	POR 5	EVG 27	TUS 16	CNS 2	HPT 19	BRI 11	NZH 3	MLW 27	LVL 9	I70 11	IRP 13	FLM 10	GLN 11	NSV 4	RCH 7	NHA 26	MAR 2	NWS 3								7th	3126
	Irvan-Simo Racing	28	Ford																					SON 26
	Walker Evans Racing	19	Dodge																						MMR 6	PHO 13	LVS 13
1997		20	Ford	WDW 2																											11th	3185
			Chevy		TUS 4	HOM 9	PHO 30	POR 3	EVG 10	I70 5	NHA 14	TEX 15	BRI 20	NZH 23	MLW 14	LVL 29	CNS 10	HPT 29	IRP 17	FLM 8	NSV 3	GLN 26	RCH 10	MAR 6	SON 15	MMR 17	CAL 18	PHO 8
		21																											LVS 28
1998	L&R Racing	18	Dodge	WDW 9	HOM 21	PHO 31	POR 11	EVG 10	I70 13	GLN 20	TEX 13	BRI 33	MLW 10	NZH 4	CAL 10	PPR 16	IRP 15	NHA 30	FLM 21	NSV 28	HPT 6	LVL 14	RCH 5	MEM 12	GTY 28	MAR 28	SON 28	MMR 7	PHO 33	LVS 10	15th	3034
1999	Bobby Hamilton Racing			HOM 9	PHO 26	EVG 16	MMR 9	MAR 27	MEM 10	PPR 10	I70 20	BRI 13	TEX	PIR	GLN	MLW	NSV	NZH	MCH	NHA	IRP	GTY	HPT	RCH	LVS	LVL	TEX				28th	1188
	Gloy/Rahal Racing	55	Ford																									CAL 11
2002	Team Rensi Motorsports	61	Chevy	DAY 17	DAR	MAR	GTY	PPR	DOV	TEX	MEM	MLW	KAN	KEN	NHA	MCH	IRP	NSH	RCH	TEX	SBO	LVS	CAL	PHO	HOM						80th	112
2004	Ken Weaver Racing	20	Chevy	DAY	ATL	MAR	MFD	CLT	DOV	TEX	MEM	MLW	KAN	KEN	GTY	MCH	IRP 24	NSH	BRI												63rd	209
	Green Light Racing	08	Chevy																	RCH 15	NHA	LVS	CAL	TEX	MAR	PHO	DAR	HOM
2005		07		DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR	GTY	MFD 10																						53rd	343
		08								CLT 16	DOV	TEX	MCH	MLW	KAN	KEN	MEM	IRP 23	NSH	BRI	RCH	NHA	LVS	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM
2006			Dodge	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR 27	GTY	CLT	MFD	DOV																				67th	152
		07	Chevy									TEX 31	MCH	MLW	KAN	KEN	MEM	IRP	NSH	BRI	NHA	LVS	TAL	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM
2008	SS-Green Light Racing	0	Chevy	DAY	CAL 35	ATL 32	MAR	KAN	CLT	MFD	DOV 36	TEX 32	MCH	MLW	MEM	KEN	IRP	NSH	BRI	GTW 35						TEX 27	PHO 35	HOM			43rd	524
		07																			NHA 31	LVS	TAL	MAR	ATL 32
2009		08		DAY 30	CAL 31	ATL 34	MAR	KAN 29	CLT	DOV	TEX 26	MCH	MLW 31	MEM 35	KEN	IRP 33	NSH 32	BRI 35	CHI	IOW	GTW 31	NHA	LVS 32	MAR	TAL	TEX	PHO	HOM			37th	819
2010		21	Dodge	DAY	ATL 32	MAR	NSH	KAN	DOV	CLT	TEX	MCH	IOW	GTY DNQ	IRP 18			DAR 30	BRI	CHI											43rd	657
		07														POC 34	NSH 18				KEN 35	NHA 32	LVS	MAR	TAL
			Toyota																							TEX 35	PHO 36	HOM
2011			Chevy	DAY	PHO	DAR	MAR	NSH	DOV	CLT	KAN	TEX	KEN	IOW	NSH	IRP	POC	MCH 27	BRI	ATL	CHI	NHA 30	KEN		TAL 33	MAR	TEX	HOM			50th	62
			Toyota																					LVS 24

References

1. closest finish in series history

External links

• Butch Miller driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Butch Miller crew chief statistics at Racing-Reference