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 Peters began his NASCAR career in 2005 in what was then the Craftsman Truck Series. He had two top-ten finishes in sixteen 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 thirteenth 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 twelve top-ten finishes, as well as his third career win at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis. Peters would finish the year fifth 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 second and would later follow that up with a victory at Las Vegas while Johnny Sauter finished second.
In 2014, Peters passed Kyle Busch with five 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 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.
For 2015, 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.
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. 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. 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 as well, 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
Racing career summary SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsTop 5Top 10PointsPosition2005NASCAR Craftsman Truck SeriesBobby Hamilton Racing16002156828th2006NASCAR Craftsman Truck SeriesBobby Hamilton Racing17001176227thNASCAR Busch SeriesRichard Childress Racing1000124105thARCA Re/Max Series1000145121st2007NASCAR Craftsman Truck SeriesMorgan-Dollar Motorsports200119374thNASCAR Busch SeriesRichard Childress Racing700064662ndARCA Re/Max Series1001200107th2008NASCAR Craftsman Truck SeriesPremier Racing800174336th2009NASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesPremier Racing800232898thRed Horse Racing1715112010NASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesRed Horse Racing25151633436th2011NASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesRed Horse Racing2517128325th2012NASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesRed Horse Racing22210168022nd2013NASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesRed Horse Racing22241168310th2014NASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesRed Horse Racing2219137465th2015NASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesRed Horse Racing2328168045th2016CARS Late Model Stock Car TourNelson Motorsports11113529thNASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesRed Horse Racing23081640244th2017CARS Late Model Stock Car TourNelson Motorsports10113038thNASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesRed Horse Racing501325221stMDM Motorsports1000Young's Motorsports20012018CARS Late Model Stock Car TourNelson Motorsports30127320thNASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesGMS Racing412316128thRBR Enterprises1001Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series10000NC†2019CARS Late Model Stock Car TourNelson Motorsports20114633rdNASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck SeriesNiece Motorsports30029835thNEMCO Motorsports10002020CARS Late Model Stock Car TourNelson Motorsports30115825thNASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck SeriesHalmar Friesen Racing10013053rd2021CARS Late Model Stock Car TourNelson Motorsports30114926thNASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesRackley W.A.R.1000011932nd2023CARS Late Model Stock Car TourBH Motorsports1000588th2024CARS Late Model Stock Car TourBH Motorsports10010N/A † As Peters was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.
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 Pts Ref 2018 RBR Enterprises 92 Ford DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL MAR TEX BRI RCH TAL23 DOV KAN CLT POC MCH SON CHI DAYDNQ 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 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 MEM13 TEX PHO HOM 105th 124 2007 21 DAY CAL17 MXC LVS ATL BRI25 NSH32 TEX41 PHO13 TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH20 KEN17 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