# Timothy Peters

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.
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.
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 | 0$^1$ | |

#### 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 | Richard Childress Racing | 21 | Chevy | 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 | Bobby Hamilton Racing | 4 | Dodge | 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 | |
| 2006 | Bobby Hamilton Racing | 04 | Dodge | | | | | | | | | | MCH 35 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 27th | 1762 |
| 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 | |
| 2008 | Premier Racing | 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 | | 36th | 743 | |
| 2008 | Premier Racing | 17 | Toyota | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | HOM 15 | 36th | 743 | |
| 2009 | Premier Racing | 17 | Toyota | DAY 6 | CAL 9 | ATL 15 | MAR 22 | KAN 24 | CLT 31 | DOV 17 | TEX 12 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8th | 3289 | |
| 2009 | Red Horse Racing | 17 | Toyota | | | | | | | | | 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 | 8th | 3289 | |
| 2009 | Red Horse Racing | 1 | Toyota | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | MAR 1* | | | | | | | | 8th | 3289 | |
| 2010 | Red Horse Racing | 17 | Toyota | 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 | Red Horse Racing | 17 | Toyota | 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 | Red Horse Racing | 17 | Toyota | 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 | Red Horse Racing | 17 | Toyota | 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 | Red Horse Racing | 17 | Toyota | 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 | Red Horse Racing | 17 | Toyota | 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 | Red Horse Racing | 17 | Toyota | 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 | Red Horse Racing | 17 | Toyota | DAY 17 | ATL 9 | MAR 8 | KAN 13 | CLT 5 | DOV | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 21st | 252 | |
| 2017 | MDM Motorsports | 99 | Chevy | | | | | | | TEX 13 | GTW | IOW | KEN | ELD | POC | MCH | BRI | MSP | CHI | NHA | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 21st | 252 |
| 2017 | Young's Motorsports | 02 | Chevy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LVS 11 | TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO | HOM 10 | | | | 21st | 252 | |
| 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 | |
| 2018 | GMS Racing | 25 | Chevy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | MSP 4 | LVS 19 | TAL 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | 28th | 161 | |
| 2018 | GMS Racing | 23 | Chevy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | MAR 10 | TEX | PHO | HOM | | | | 28th | 161 | |
| 2019 | Niece Motorsports | 44 | Chevy | DAY 7 | ATL 10 | LVS 12 | MAR | TEX | DOV | KAN | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 35th | 98 | |
| 2019 | RBR Enterprises | 92 | Ford | | | | | | | | CLT DNQ | TEX | IOW | GTW | CHI | KEN | POC | ELD | MCH | BRI DNQ | MSP | LVS | | | | | | | | | | | | 35th | 98 | |
| 2019 | NEMCO Motorsports | 87 | Chevy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TAL 23 | MAR | PHO | HOM | | | | 35th | 98 | |
| 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 | Richard Childress Racing | 31 | Chevy | 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 | |