JMM Motorsports has been around in various forms since 1996. While living in Sparta, WI, Joe Miller made the questionable decision to buy a racecar after being dumped by a local girl. Since then things have been all over the map.

Growing up, Joe spent his summers working on the supermodified his dad fielded at Oswego Speedway. With all the focus on the family racecar, he never got a chance to race anything himself but learned a lot about racing. Years later, when his friend Rob Mahan decided to go stock car racing, he turned to Joe for help. After a year or so wrenching on Rob’s car, Joe decided to try his hand at driving in circles. A less than spectacular rookie year showed that he definitely wasn’t a natural.

A year later Joe moved back to his ancestral home in upstate NY. A look around turned up a track within hauling distance and Joe built a new car for Evans Mills. Halfway through construction, the news came out that Oswego Speedway would be running stock cars. Given his history there it was a forgone conclusion that the direction would change. In 1999, Joe, his brother Kelly, and David Bock became the first regular competitors in a stock class at Oswego since the 50’s.

After a dismal first year and most of a second, Joe was ready to pack it in until a visit from Rob turned into a lesson in chassis tuning. With a makeshift set of ballast weights and some adjustments, Joe went out and won his first feature. The rest, as they say, is history.

The car at the Motorsports Expo in 2004

Hero card for 2000