Timothy Peters
Peters atTalladega Superspeedway in 2018
Born	Timothy Jason Peters (1980-08-29)August 29, 1980 (age 45) Danville, Virginia, U.S.
Achievements	2017Virginia Late Model Triple Crown Series Champion 2003Myrtle Beach 400 Winner 2005, 2017ValleyStar Credit Union 300 Winner 2015Denny Hamlin Short Track Showdown Winner
NASCARCup Series career
1 race run over 1 year
2018 position	62nd
Best finish	62nd (2018)
First race	2018GEICO 500 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career
8 races run over 2 years
2007 position	62nd
Best finish	62nd (2007)
First race	2006Sam's Town 250 (Memphis)
Last race	2007Meijer 300 (Kentucky)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career
258 races run over 17 years
2021 position	32nd
Best finish	2nd (2012)
First race	2005Kroger 250 (Martinsville)
Last race	2021North Carolina Education Lottery 200 (Charlotte)
First win	2009Kroger 200 (Martinsville)
Last win	2018Fr8Auctions 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	2006Food World 250 (Talladega)
Last race	2007ARCA 200 at Daytona (Daytona)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
Statistics up to date as of December 30, 2021.

Timothy Jason Peters (born August 29, 1980) is an American professionalstock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in theNASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 25Chevrolet Silverado forRackley W.A.R.. He was a member of theBobby Hamilton Racing andRichard Childress Racingdriver development programs. Peters is a veteran of NASCAR's Truck Series, having driven for the defunctRed Horse Racing team full-time for eight years.

Peters began his NASCAR career in2005 in what was then the Craftsman Truck Series. He had two top-ten finishes in sixteen events in the No. 4 Bailey's CigarettesDodge forBobby Hamilton Racing. In2006, he returned to the same truck during most of the year, earning one top-ten atMilwaukee. However, Peters left the team in early September and joined Richard Childress Racing, where he was to share their No. 21AutoZone Chevy withKevin Harvick in theBusch Series in2007 before he was released after making six starts. His best result in the series was two thirteenth place finishes. He made two startsthat season in the Truck Series, driving the No. 46 forMorgan-Dollar Motorsports, and had a ninth-place finish at Martinsville.^[1]

After making another start at Martinsville for Morgan-Dollar in2008, 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 atDaytona andCalifornia, putting his team fourth in owners points. AfterTexas, Peters took both his sponsor and crew chief and joined Red Horse Racing for the remainder of the2009 season.^[3] Peters won his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on October 24, 2009, for Red Horse Racing atMartinsville 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.

In2010, Peters returned to Red Horse for the full season in the No. 17 and started the year off with a win the season-opener atDaytona after passingTodd Bodine on the last lap.^[4]

For2011, Peters returned to RHR and scored twelve top-ten finishes, as well as his third career win atLucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis. Peters would finish the year fifth in points.

For2012, 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]

For2013, Peters won his first race of the season at Iowa whileErik Jones finished second and would later follow that up with a victory at Las Vegas whileJohnny Sauter finished second.

In2014, Peters passedKyle 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 withRon Hornaday Jr. In reply to Hornaday shoving Peters into the outside wall, Peters retaliated and spun Hornaday two 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.

For2015, Peters got two 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 tenth 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.

In2017, 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 teammateBrett Moffitt without rides. At the time of the team's shutdown, Peters was sixth in points.^[6] He drove a single race forMDM Motorsports atTexas Motor Speedway in his last start to date. Out of turn four 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 thirteenth.^[7] Peters drove two races forYoung's Motorsports, Las Vegas with an 11th-place finish, and Homestead with a 10th-place finish.

For the2018 season, Peters joinedRBR 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 hisMonster Energy NASCAR Cup Series debut atTalladega, driving the No. 92Advance Auto Parts /BB&T Ford Fusion for RBR. He finished 23rd after starting 32nd.^[9] Peters and the team came back to Daytona in the summer, but failed to qualify. In late August, he began racing forGMS Racing in the truck series, occupying the No. 25 entry for the team due to the release ofDalton Sargeant. Peters won the Talladega race after avoiding a last-lap crash involvingNoah Gragson.

In2019, Peters signed withNiece 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 theNEMCO Motorsports No. 87, attempting to defend his win from the prior year.

In2020, Peters was without a ride all year until he got the call to substitute forStewart Friesen in his No. 52 Toyota atKansas 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 announcedChristopher 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 forRackley W.A.R. in the2021 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] He has not competed in NASCAR since then.

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]

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¹ Ineligible for series points

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