You could say that racing comes naturally to Matt Miller. After all, the Waterville, Ohio driver has been behind the wheel and standing on the gas since the age of five. From center stage at Eldora Speedway to the road of success in dirt Late Model racing, Miller has gained a reputation as one of the sport's indisputable up and coming drivers.

Lately, Miller and the Lo-Temp Brazing/Stephen McCullough DSI Motorsports team followed the Renegade DirtCar Racing Series trek. In the off season of 2000, Miller and team owner Denny Thornton joined forces with Stephen McCullough Motorsports.The team quickly gelled and formed plans to embark on the road traveling with the Renegade DirtCar Racing Series.Many touted Miller to become the next standout driver to join the major ranks of dirt Late Model racing. It was a billing he readily lived up to early on in the season.

The team won in its first month of competition in a UDTRA Pro DirtCar Series event during Speedweeks at Volusia County Speedway in Florida. The 50-lap, $10,000 victory came over eventual UDTRA champion Rick Eckert.

By the end of the 2001 season, Miller was a runaway lock for the Renegade DirtCar Rookie of the Year honor. The team finished sixth in points from four top-5 finishes. Miller earned his way into twenty-seven features on the nine-month tour of 31 events.

Miller started racing quarter midgets at the age of five and continued until he turned eleven years old. During those years, he won over 200 events as well as track and regional championships.

When he began junior high school, he traded the steering wheel for a football and a basketball. Those sports brought him five letters until he graduated from high school in 1989.

Two years after resuming his racing career part-time in the Semi-Late and Late Model class, Miller competed in his first full season of Late Model racing at Oakshade Raceway in Wauseon, Ohio. At that time, Oakshade ran both Friday and Saturday nights, and Miller captured the track championship both nights in the Late Model division. That same year, he won the United Midwest Promoters Ohio State Championship. Through 1993, Miller continued to compete and win until he left the sport for two years.

He started racing again in the midst of the 1996 season. The next September, he qualified for the race that he says opened his eyes to the sport eight years earlier. In the 1997 World 100, Miller won his heat race and finished thirteenth.

In 2000, Miller qualified for both the Dream and World 100 again. By season's end, he was crowned track champion at the place in nearby Rossburg he calls his favorite race track. He placed fifth in the Sunoco American Late Model Series standings.

Miller has in excess of fifty career feature wins, five coming in Sunoco ALMS competition. Among others, he was victorious in the Great Lakes Nationals at Crystal (Mich.) Raceway and the Fall Brawl at Lake Cumberland (Ky.) Speedway.

The Rocket Chassis Grand Prix is the weapon of choice for Matt Miller and DSI Motorsports. The team is backed by Lo-Temp Brazing, Stephen McCullough Motorsports, Russell Baker Racing Engines, Banshee Graphics, McDonald Refrigeration, and Whaley & Son Collision.