Tim Treadless

Tim Treadless is a minor character in the 2017 Disney/Pixar animated film, Cars 3. He is a Next-Gen racer sponsored by Nitroade who replaced Phil Tankson in the Piston Cup.
== Biography ==
=== Physical description ===
Tim is a Next-Gen 2017 Race Car SA-3 with a dark brown, black and orange livery, Lightyear tires, and the number #28 on his sides and roof. He has gray eyes.
=== Personality ===
Tim Treadless is a high-tech next-generation race car. He is intelligent, friendly and fast. Around 2015–2016 he was selected as one of the 10 candidates training to become a racing driver for Biggs Racing team with Ray Reverham as a trainer. He lived and trained in the Biggs Industries Racing Complex located in Los Angeles, California, United States. He was a captain of the team. He had good relations with all teammates, excluding Jackson Storm who was the last to join the team. During their first meeting Storm said that he was better at the race simulator and Treadless could learn from him, which started tensions between two. Additionally all other racers thought about Storm's addition to the team as a marketing move to promote the Super Corsa 3 video game, given his e-sports past.
One day during training, Jackson pulled out too aggressively on the turn bumping into Tim and denting his body. Jackson claimed that it was an accident after what he left. The following day, 4 of the trainees left the program, due to the competitive and stressful environment that Jackson has created in the team. Since then, Reverham had intensified the training program, while Treadless got focused on improving himself with a goal of beating Jackson's achievements. One day, Tim and Storm convinced Stats to wire to simulators together allowing them to race each other. Doing so, they broke their trainer's simulator-room rules. For the most of the simulated race Jackson stayed on first position with Tim constantly staying on his tail and at the end of final lap they got locked in and pushed down a straightaway, with Tim winning by a few centimeters. It was the first time anybody beat Jackson's time at the simulator. All teammates were cheering for his victory and when they were celebrating, Storm claimed that Treadless cheated after when he headed for the building's main entryway, where he started spinning in place burning the rubber and generating smoke that activated a fire alarm and sprinklers. After that Reverham ordered him to apologize to Tim and others. Eventually, Axle P. Biggs, owner of the Biggs Industries and racing team, had decided on selecting Tim Treadless as a team racer, despite Storm having better achievements in training, as he believed that Jackson wasn't suitable to represent brand due to his behavior that he presented throughout the training.
== Appearences ==
=== Cars 3 ===
Tim Treadless is one of the first next-generation race cars to debut in the Piston Cup. He joined the competition mid-season and entered the Nitroade racing team (despite being previously selected to race for Biggs' racing team), replacing Phil Tankson. At the Florida 500, Tim qualifies in 20th place and wasn't able to finish the race due to having been badly damaged in a wreck caused by Cam Spinner.
== Trivia ==
* Despite having gray eyes in the movie, his artwork depicts him with blue eyes, and his die-cast depicts him with brown eyes.
* His die-cast depicts him with an orange spoiler, which is incorrect, as Tim's spoiler in the movie is black.
* Tim is the only Next-Gen racer in the movie that did not have any rookie stripes on him, not even on his first race. 
Category:Cars characters
Category:Pixar characters
Category:Race Cars
Category:Males
Category:Animated characters
Category:TV Animation characters
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