Timothy Peters

For the American human rights activist, see Tim A. Peters.

Timothy Peters
Peters at Talladega Superspeedway in 2018
Born	Timothy Jason Peters (1980-08-29) August 29, 1980 Danville, Virginia, U.S.
Achievements	2017 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 position	62nd
Best finish	62nd (2018)
First race	2018 GEICO 500 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
8 races run over 2 years
2007 position	62nd
Best finish	62nd (2007)
First race	2006 Sam's Town 250 (Memphis)
Last race	2007 Meijer 300 (Kentucky)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
258 races run over 17 years
2021 position	32nd
Best finish	2nd (2012)
First race	2005 Kroger 250 (Martinsville)
Last race	2021 North Carolina Education Lottery 200 (Charlotte)
First win	2009 Kroger 200 (Martinsville)
Last win	2018 Fr8Auctions 250 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles 11 129 8
ARCA Menards Series career
2 races run over 2 years
Best finish	107th (2007)
First race	2006 Food World 250 (Talladega)
Last race	2007 ARCA 200 at Daytona (Daytona)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
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 W.A.R.. 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

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. His best result in the series was two 13th-place finishes. 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.

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. 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. 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 to 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.

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.

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. 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. 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. 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. He finished 23rd after starting 32nd. 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. 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.

In January 2021, it was announced that Peters would drive for Rackley W.A.R. in the 2021 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season. He departed the team in June after ten races; at the time, Peters was 21st in points with two top-twenty finishes. He has not competed in NASCAR since then.

Personal life

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.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(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

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

Busch Series

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	GTW	IRP	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM 13	TEX	PHO	HOM	105th	124
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	GTW	IRP	CGV	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	62nd	646

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	NCWTC	Pts	Ref
2005	Bobby Hamilton Racing	4	Dodge	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR 18	GTW 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
2006				DAY 12	CAL 24	ATL 33	MAR 35	GTW 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
		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
2008	Premier Racing	47	Chevy	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR 19	KAN																					36th	743
		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
	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	GTW 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2017				DAY 17	ATL 9	MAR 8	KAN 13	CLT 5	DOV																				21st	252
	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
	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
	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
2021	Rackley W.A.R.	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

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

ARCA Re/Max Series

(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
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

External links

• Official website
• Timothy Peters driver statistics at Racing-Reference