ML Motorsports was an American professional stock car racing team that last competed 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 to 2013.

ARCA Series Car No. 67 History ML Motorsports debuted in 1999 in the ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde 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."About Team 70." . ML Motorsports, n.d. Web. 4 Jul 2012. <http://www.mlracing.com/team-70/index.cfm >

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.

Car No. 97 History ML Motorsports ran a second team part-time beginnining in 2001. Dennis English debuted the No. 33 car at Chicagoland Speedway, finishing 33rd after an early oil leak. A few races later, Kevin Belmont ran the No. 51 at Toledo Speedway, but finished 29th after transmission failure.

In 2002, the team ran the No. 75 and No. 97 entries driven by Red Farmer in a partnership with Bob Schacht. Farmer earned two top-ten finishes in five races, his best finish being a 4th at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds.

Nationwide Series

ML Motorsports made its NASCAR debut at 2006 at Richmond International Raceway with Diercks driving and Foretravel sponsoring. They qualified twenty-eighth but finished last after a wreck. They ran six more races that season with a best finish of twenty-eighth at Gateway International Raceway. The combo returned in 2007 for seven additional races, with two twenty-fourth-place finishes. Diercks was fired from the team and replaced by Mark Green, who ran ten races and had a best finish of nineteenth. In 2008, Green and the team attempted twenty-one races, qualifying for nineteenth, and had its first top-five finish at Talladega Superspeedway, where Green finished fifth. The next season, Green was released after four races, and Shelby Howard took over as driver. In seventeen starts, Howard finished in the top-twenty seven times.

Howard returned in 2010 and had a best finish of twelfth twice in twenty-one starts. That year, ML formed a partnership with Jay Robinson Racing to allow Robinson to enter its No. 49 car using ML's number and owner points during races ML would not enter. This allowed ML to remain eligible for the top-30 exemption in owner points, so that it would not fail to qualify for any races that it attempted.Rodman, Dave. "Yeley to give Robinson last Nationwide hurrah?." NASCAR.com. Turner, 11 Feb 2012. Web. 4 Jul 2012. <http://www.nascar.com/nationwide-series/news/120211/jyeley-no-28-jrobinson-daytona/index.html> Green would run the races that JRR fielded, earning a best finish of nineteenth. This arrangement continued in 2011 with Dennis Setzer driving in the JRR/ML races. Howard began 2011 as driver, but was replaced by both David Stremme and Scott Wimmer on a rotating basis. Stremme got the team's best finish of the season at Richmond when he finished ninth.

In 2012, rookie Johanna Long became the team's primary driver. During the races ML didn't enter, the 70 was independently run by NEMCO-Jay Robinson Racing with Tony Raines, Charles Lewandoski, Derrike Cope, and David Green sharing driving duties. The team primarily ran Toyotas in those events.

Johanna Long drove the car again in 2013 but the team closed its doors in January 2014. The team finished most of the races ran, but never had the sponsorship or resources to run a full schedule. All assets of the team were sold to Derrike Cope and his team Derrike Cope Racing.

Car No. 70 results Year Driver 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 Owners Pts 2005 Chad Blount 70 Chevy DAY CAL MXC LVS ATL NSH BRI TEX PHO TAL DAR RCH CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW DAY CHI NHA PPR GTY IRP GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KANDNQ CLT MEM TEXDNQ PHO HOM 2006 Justin Diercks DAY CAL MXC LVS ATL BRI TEX NSH PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW DAY CHI NHA MAR GTY IRP GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 2007 DAY CAL MXC LVS ATL BRI NSH TEX PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN Mark Green MLW21 NHA DAY32 CHI30 GTY19 IRP CGV GLN MCH39 BRI25 CAL RCH28 DOV KAN24 CLT MEM TEX36 PHO HOM30 2008 DAY41 CAL LVS ATL BRI24 NSH26 TEX28 PHO MXC TAL5 RCH22 DAR CLT DOV NSH14 KEN22 MLW13 NHA DAY30 CHI22 GTY14 IRP21 CGV GLN MCH23 BRI24 CAL RCH22 DOV KAN22 CLTDNQ MEM30 TEX20 PHO HOMDNQ 2009 DAY18 CAL LVS BRIDNQ Shelby Howard TEX32 NSH14 PHO TAL27 RCH13 DAR CLT DOV NSH12 KEN26 MLW23 NHA DAY CHI26 GTY13 IRP19 IOWDNQ GLN MCH18 BRIDNQ CGV ATL21 RCH35 DOV KAN26 CAL CLT MEM12 TEX31 PHO HOM33 2010 DAYDNQ CAL LVS20 BRI34 NSH16 PHO TEX25 TAL19 RCH30 DAR DOV CLT NSH22 KEN17 ROA NHA DAY26 CHI20 GTY12 IRP14 IOW12 GLN MCH23 BRI24 CGV ATL RCH24 DOV KAN20 CAL CLT39 GTY27 TEX28 PHO HOM36 2011 DAY22 PHO28 LVS29 BRI27 CAL TEX30 TAL David Stremme NSH20 RCH9 DAR DOV MCH12 ROA DAY KEN23 NHA NSH16 IRP13 BRI17 ATL RCH13 CHI26 DOV KAN14 CLT TEX34 PHO11 HOM15 Scott Wimmer IOW15 CLT CHI19 IOW15 GLN CGV 2012 Johanna Long DAY21 PHO LVS19 BRI29 CAL TEX20 RCH20 TAL37 DAR IOW22 CLT22 DOV MCH16 ROA KEN19 DAY12 NHA CHI21 IND30 IOW13 GLN CGV BRI29 ATL RCH32 CHI21 KEN12 DOV CLT KAN31 TEX36 PHO HOM34 2013 DAY27 PHO40 LVS19 BRI CAL TEX27 RCH15 TAL26 DAR CLT36 DOV IOW12 MCH18 ROA KEN20 DAY NHA CHI20 IND27 IOW19 GLN MOH BRI ATL RCH19 CHI26 KEN16 DOV KAN24 CLT17 TEX37 PHO HOM21

References

External links Mary Louise Miller NASCAR Owner Statistics