Timothy Jason Peters (born August 29, 1980) is an American professional stock car racing driver.
Peters is a veteran of NASCAR's Truck Series, having driven for the defunct Red Horse Racing team full-time for eight years.
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.
[2] 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.
17 and started the year off with a win the season-opener at Daytona after passing Todd Bodine on the last lap.
[4] 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.
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.
[6] He drove a single race for MDM Motorsports at Texas Motor Speedway in his last start to date.
In April 2018, he made his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series debut at Talladega, driving the No.
Peters won the Talladega race after avoiding a last-lap crash involving Noah Gragson.
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.
[12] He departed the team in June after ten races; at the time, Peters was 21st in points with two top-twenty finishes.
* Season still in progress 1 Ineligible for series points (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.