Timothy Peters

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Timothy Peters
Peters at Talladega Superspeedway in 2018
BornTimothy Jason Peters
(1980-08-29) August 29, 1980 (age 43)
Danville, Virginia, U.S.
Achievements2017 Virginia Late Model Triple Crown Series Champion
2003 Myrtle Beach 400 Winner
2005, 2017 ValleyStar Credit Union 300 Winner
2015 Denny Hamlin Short Track Showdown Winner
NASCAR Cup Series career
1 race run over 1 year
2018 position62nd
Best finish62nd (2018)
First race2018 GEICO 500 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
8 races run over 2 years
2007 position62nd
Best finish62nd (2007)
First race2006 Sam's Town 250 (Memphis)
Last race2007 Meijer 300 (Kentucky)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
258 races run over 17 years
2021 position32nd
Best finish2nd (2012)
First race2005 Kroger 250 (Martinsville)
Last race2021 North Carolina Education Lottery 200 (Charlotte)
First win2009 Kroger 200 (Martinsville)
Last win2018 Fr8Auctions 250 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles
11 129 8
Statistics current as of December 30, 2021.

Timothy Jason Peters (born August 29, 1980) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 25 Chevrolet Silverado for Rackley WAR. He was a member of the Bobby Hamilton Racing and Richard Childress Racing driver development programs. Peters is a veteran of NASCAR's Truck Series, having driven for the defunct Red Horse Racing team full-time for eight years.

Racing career[edit]

He began his NASCAR career in 2005 in what was then the Craftsman Truck Series. He had two top-10 finishes in 16 events in the No. 4 Bailey's Cigarettes Dodge for Bobby Hamilton Racing. In 2006, he returned to the same truck during most of the year, earning one top-ten at Milwaukee. However, Peters left the team in early September and joined Richard Childress Racing, where he was to share their No. 21 AutoZone Chevy with Kevin Harvick in the Busch Series in 2007, before he was released after making six starts. He made two starts that season in the Truck Series, driving the No. 46 for Morgan-Dollar Motorsports, and had a ninth-place finish at Martinsville.[1]

After making another start at Martinsville for Morgan-Dollar in 2008, he began driving the No. 17 for Premier Racing, a team that he co-owned. He and Premier ran a limited schedule in 2008 with a tenth-place run at Martinsville and was scheduled to run full-time in 2009.[2] Peters scored two consecutive top-tens at Daytona and California, putting his team fourth in owners points. After Texas, Peters took both his sponsor and crew chief and joined Red Horse Racing for the remainder of the 2009 season.[3] Peters won his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on October 24, 2009, for Red Horse Racing at Martinsville Speedway, after pitting on lap 34 and making the distance. He came close of winning the last race at Homestead, but lost the lead with two laps to go, as Kevin Harvick won the race.

In 2010, Peters returned to Red Horse for the full season in the No. 17, and started the year off with a win the season-opener at Daytona after passing Todd Bodine on the last lap.[4]

For 2011, Peters returned to RHR, and scored 12 top-10 finishes, as well as his third career win at the final race at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis. Peters would finish 2011 5th in points.

For 2012, Peters won his first race of the season at Iowa and would later follow that up with a flag to flag victory at Bristol.[5]

Peters at Rockingham in 2013

For 2013, Peters won his first race of the season at Iowa while Erik Jones finished 2nd and would later follow that up with a victory at Las Vegas while Johnny Sauter finished 2nd.

In 2014, Peters passed Kyle Busch with 5 laps to go in the NextEra Energy Resources 250. However, Busch would beat Peters dramatically by 0.017 to win the race leading the 2010 Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega as the closest truck finish. Peters ran in the top five early at Iowa in July 2014, but got into an accident with Ron Hornaday Jr. In reply to Hornaday shoving Peters into the outside wall, Peters retaliated and spun Hornaday 2 laps after the previous collision. For his actions, NASCAR parked him for the rest of the race, though Peters was too damaged to continue so his parking made no difference in Peters' final result. Peters finished 31st.

For 2015, Peters got 2 wins, he won from the pole at Talladega for the Fred's 250 and got back to back victories, because he also won the previous year, and would follow up with another win at a wreck filled Phoenix race, the Lucas Oil 150, getting his 10th Truck career win, after Championship contenders Matt Crafton and Erik Jones wrecked while battling for the lead.

2016 saw the first winless season of Peters' full-time truck career, but nonetheless he qualified for the final round of the inaugural Truck chase and finished fourth in the standings.

Peters at Martinsville in April 2017, which was one of his final starts for Red Horse Racing

In 2017, after a normal start to the year, on May 22 after the Charlotte race, Red Horse Racing closed down due to lack of sponsorship, an issue that had affected the team for years. This left Peters and teammate Brett Moffitt without rides. At the time of the team's shutdown, Peters was sixth in points.[6] He drove a single race for MDM Motorsports at Texas Motor Speedway in his last start to date. Out of turn 4 on the second to last lap of the race, Austin Wayne Self got loose and hit the wall. Self then came back down and hit Peters causing him to spin into the grass. The front end dug into the grass and got lifted up in the air. The truck then spun 180 degrees, and the front of the truck came down. This caused the truck to launch 10-20 feet in the air and land on its roof. The truck slid for hundreds of feet and didn't flip back over. He was okay after the crash and finished 13th.[7] Peters drove two races for Young's Motorsports, Las Vegas with an 11th-place finish, and Homestead with a 10th-place finish.

For the 2018 season, Peters joined RBR Enterprises at Martinsville, finishing seventh.[8] He and the team attempted Charlotte too, but rain ended up canceling qualifying, which sent the team home. It was the first time in his career he failed to qualify for a race. In April 2018, he made his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series debut at Talladega, driving the No. 92 Advance Auto Parts / BB&T Ford Fusion for RBR.[9] Peters and the team came back to Daytona in the summer, but failed to qualify. In late August, he began racing for GMS Racing in the truck series, occupying the No. 25 entry for the team due to the release of Dalton Sargeant. Peters won the Talladega race after avoiding a last lap crash involving Noah Gragson.

In 2019, Peters signed with Niece Motorsports to run the Truck Series' first three races in their No. 44 Chevrolet Silverado.[10] He would also return to the No. 92 RBR truck for two races at Charlotte and Bristol, but he failed to qualify for both. The other race he ran that year was Talladega in the NEMCO Motorsports No. 87, attempting to defend his win from the prior year.

In 2020, Peters was without a ride all year until he got the call to substitute for Stewart Friesen in his No. 52 Toyota at Kansas in October. When the race was moved from Friday to Saturday of that weekend just weeks before, Friesen had already committed to run the Short Track Super Series Speed Showcase 200 dirt race, and because he was not in the Truck Series playoffs, decided to skip the Truck race. The team had previously announced Christopher Bell as Friesen's substitute, unaware that he was ineligible to compete due to Cup Series drivers being ineligible to run any Truck Series playoff races, which led to Peters getting the ride for that race.[11]

In January 2021, it was announced that Peters would drive for Rackley WAR in the 2021 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.[12] He departed the team in June after ten races; at the time, Peters was 21st in points with two top-twenty finishes.[13]

Personal life[edit]

Peters married his longtime girlfriend, Sara Haskins Peters, on May 19, 2007. They have two children, a son named Brantley, born in 2012 and Macie, born in 2015.[14]

Motorsports career results[edit]

NASCAR[edit]

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)

Monster Energy Cup Series[edit]

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup 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 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 MENCC Pts Ref
2018 RBR Enterprises 92 Ford DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL MAR TEX BRI RCH TAL
23
DOV KAN CLT POC MCH SON CHI DAY
DNQ
KEN NHA POC GLN MCH BRI DAR IND LVS RCH ROV DOV TAL KAN MAR TEX PHO HOM 62nd 01 [15]

Busch Series[edit]

NASCAR Busch 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 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 NBSC Pts Ref
2006 Richard Childress Racing 29 Chevy 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
13
TEX PHO HOM 105th 124 [16]
2007 21 DAY CAL
17
MXC LVS ATL BRI
25
NSH
32
TEX
41
PHO
13
TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH
20
KEN
17
MLW NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP CGV GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 62nd 646 [17]

Camping World Truck Series[edit]

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 NCWTC Pts Ref
2005 Bobby Hamilton Racing 4 Dodge DAY CAL ATL MAR
18
GTY
16
MFD CLT
32
DOV
6
TEX
32
MCH
25
MLW KAN KEN
28
MEM
18
IRP
28
NSH
33
BRI
19
RCH
29
NHA LVS
26
MAR
8
ATL
18
TEX PHO HOM
15
28th 1568 [18]
2006 DAY
12
CAL
24
ATL
33
MAR
35
GTY
32
CLT
23
MFD
11
DOV
14
TEX
20
MLW
6
KAN
19
KEN
25
MEM
12
IRP
15
NSH
19
BRI
33
NHA LVS TAL MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 27th 1762 [19]
04 MCH
35
2007 Morgan-Dollar Motorsports 46 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR
9
KAN CLT MFD DOV TEX MCH MLW MEM KEN IRP NSH BRI
36
GTW NHA LVS TAL MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 74th 193 [20]
2008 Premier Racing 47 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR
19
KAN 36th 743 [21]
17 Dodge CLT
25
MFD DOV TEX MCH MLW MEM KEN
19
IRP NSH
15
BRI
30
GTW NHA
23
LVS TAL MAR
10
ATL TEX PHO
Toyota HOM
15
2009 DAY
6
CAL
9
ATL
15
MAR
22
KAN
24
CLT
31
DOV
17
TEX
12
8th 3289 [22]
Red Horse Racing MCH
8
MLW
18
MEM
7
KEN
4
IRP
17
NSH
4
BRI
10
CHI
9
IOW
8
GTW
7
NHA
19
LVS
5
TAL
11
TEX
19
PHO
16
HOM
4
1 MAR
1*
2010 17 DAY
1
ATL
7
MAR
4
NSH
4
KAN
23
DOV
25
CLT
10
TEX
7
MCH
6
IOW
27
GTY
6
IRP
10
POC
8
NSH
4
DAR
2
BRI
8
CHI
21
KEN
6
NHA
6
LVS
26
MAR
34
TAL
7
TEX
12
PHO
13
HOM
17
6th 3343 [23]
2011 DAY
11
PHO
12
DAR
6
MAR
5
NSH
3
DOV
17
CLT
32
KAN
14
TEX
20
KEN
16
IOW
11
NSH
3
IRP
1
POC
10
MCH
2
BRI
5
ATL
16
CHI
17
NHA
9
KEN
17
LVS
3
TAL
23
MAR
8
TEX
11
HOM
8
5th 832 [24]
2012 DAY
2
MAR
5
CAR
5
KAN
2
CLT
9
DOV
9
TEX
11
KEN
5
IOW
1*
CHI
3
POC
22
MCH
13
BRI
1*
ATL
13
IOW
19
KEN
21
LVS
8
TAL
5
MAR
7
TEX
10
PHO
4
HOM
8
2nd 802 [25]
2013 DAY
27
MAR
4
CAR
26
KAN
10
CLT
26
DOV
6
TEX
14
KEN
6
IOW
1
ELD
6
POC
14
MCH
6
BRI
2*
MSP
8
IOW
12
CHI
27
LVS
1
TAL
29
MAR
26
TEX
16
PHO
16
HOM
9
10th 683 [26]
2014 DAY
2
MAR
6
KAN
14
CLT
5
DOV
10
TEX
24
GTW
3
KEN
4
IOW
31
ELD
16
POC
12
MCH
7
BRI
26
MSP
10
CHI
17
NHA
11
LVS
4
TAL
1*
MAR
2
TEX
3
PHO
19
HOM
3
5th 746 [27]
2015 DAY
24
ATL
9
MAR
18
KAN
4
CLT
7
DOV
20
TEX
21
GTW
6
IOW
6
KEN
5
ELD
23
POC
7
MCH
8
BRI
12
MSP
22
CHI
3
NHA
4
LVS
2
TAL
1
MAR
6
TEX
6
PHO
1
HOM
5
5th 804 [28]
2016 DAY
15
ATL
3
MAR
5
KAN
8
DOV
14
CLT
7
TEX
6
IOW
11
GTW
10
KEN
9
ELD
27
POC
4
BRI
13
MCH
2*
MSP
18
CHI
8
NHA
5
LVS
9
TAL
3
MAR
5
TEX
14
PHO
5
HOM
9
4th 4024 [29]
2017 DAY
17
ATL
9
MAR
8
KAN
13
CLT
5
DOV 21st 252 [30]
MDM Motorsports 99 Chevy TEX
13
GTW IOW KEN ELD POC MCH BRI MSP CHI NHA
Young's Motorsports 02 Chevy LVS
11
TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM
10
2018 RBR Enterprises 92 Ford DAY ATL LVS MAR
7
DOV KAN CLT
DNQ
TEX IOW GTW CHI KEN ELD POC MCH BRI
DNQ
28th 161 [31]
GMS Racing 25 Chevy MSP
4
LVS
19
TAL
1
23 MAR
10
TEX PHO HOM
2019 Niece Motorsports 44 Chevy DAY
7
ATL
10
LVS
12
MAR TEX DOV KAN 35th 98 [32]
RBR Enterprises 92 Ford CLT
DNQ
TEX IOW GTW CHI KEN POC ELD MCH BRI
DNQ
MSP LVS
NEMCO Motorsports 87 Chevy TAL
23
MAR PHO HOM
2020 Halmar Friesen Racing 52 Toyota DAY LVS CLT ATL HOM POC KEN TEX KAN KAN MCH DRC DOV GTW DAR RCH BRI LVS TAL KAN
7
TEX MAR PHO 53rd 30 [33]
2021 Rackley WAR 25 Chevy DAY
26
DRC
24
LVS
16
ATL
30
BRD
30
RCH
22
KAN
21
DAR
19
COA
32
CLT
38
TEX NSH POC KNX GLN GTW DAR BRI LVS TAL MAR PHO 32nd 119 [34]

* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points

ARCA Re/Max Series[edit]

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Re/Max 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 ARMC Pts Ref
2006 Richard Childress Racing 31 Chevy DAY NSH SLM WIN KEN TOL POC MCH KAN KEN BLN POC GTW NSH MCH ISF MIL TOL DSF CHI SLM TAL
17
IOW 121st 145 [35]
2007 DAY
6
USA NSH SLM KAN WIN KEN TOL IOW POC MCH BLN KEN POC NSH ISF MIL GTW DSF CHI SLM TAL TOL 107th 200 [36]

References[edit]

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