Timothy Peters
No. 17 Tire Kingdom/Service Central Toyota Tundra
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race 25 of 25
Homestead-Miami Speedway
TOP TOYOTA: Timothy Peters and the No. 17 Tire Kingdom/Service Central racing team have several standout achievements in 2011 including a pole win at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May, a win at Lucas Oil Raceway in July and currently they are fifth in the Truck Series point standings. If the No. 17 team can maintain or increase their position in the point standings this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway they will potentially be the ONLY Toyota to finish in the top-five in the championship standings in all three of NASCAR’s national touring series (Camping World Truck, Nationwide and Sprint Cup).
POINTS RUN: Peters is currently 21 points ahead of sixth position in the point standings, in this weekend’s race at Homestead-Miami Speedway Peters must finish 17th or better regardless of what the sixth place competitor does to hold onto the fifth position in the point standings. If Peters is able to accomplish this goal, he will record his highest points finish to date in his young Truck Series career.
FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME: If Peters can hold on and record a fifth-place or better finish in the 2011 Truck Series driver point standings it will mark Peters highest points finish to date. Since joining Red Horse Racing in 2009, Peters has consistently moved up the standings recording an eighth-place finish in 2009 and a sixth-place finish in 2010. This will be Peters first year on stage at the championship awards ceremony should he place in the top five.
CONSISTENT TO THE END: Since joining Red Horse Racing in 2009, Peters has completed every lap he has entered at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Peters earned his first and only top-five finish in 2009, completing the event in the fourth position and leading seven laps.
CHASSIS HISTORY: The No. 17 team will unload chassis No. 093 this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Peters most recently piloted this truck to an 11th-place two weeks ago at Texas Motor Speedway. This chassis also competed at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in October where Peters drove to a third-place finish.
PREVIOUS RACE RECAP: Two weeks ago at Texas Motor Speedway, Peters drove the No. 17 Toyota Tundra to an 11th-place finish. On the final green-white-checker restart Peters found himself in the fifth position as some of the leaders began to run out of fuel. Peters felt that he had something mechanically going wrong with his Tundra, but hoped that he could nurse the condition to the end of the 147-lap event. However, when the driver of the No. 17 took the green-flag he began to lose positions as the mechanical failure worsened and on the white-flag lap, it moved toward failure. Peters was able to hold on and finish the event in the 11th spot remaining fifth in the championship point standings heading into the final race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Timothy Peters Talks about Homestead-Miami Speedway:
What are the challenges of competing at Homestead-Miami Speedway? What does your truck need to do in order to contend for the win?
“I like Homestead. I think it is one of my best tracks. I really like the way the surface is worn out. The way the surface is it really puts it back in the driver’s hands. I think the winner is going to be the person who has the most neutral balanced truck. If you can keep a neutral balance longer than anyone else and keep up with the track changes over the course of the race, you will have a good shot at the win. To be successful at Homestead you really have to keep up with how the track changes, Homestead tends to get really loose, and it gets really cool at night when the quick way around is up close next to the fence.”
Summarize your season. What were the highlights?
“I would have to say that winning at Lucas Oil Raceway was definitely one of the highlights of our season, the way we ran at Nashville earning two top-five finishes and then finishing in the top-10 at Martinsville, my home track are the moments that stick out to me. We have had a solid season this year and I hope that we can finish on a high note this weekend at Homestead and take that momentum into the off season.”
About Red Horse Racing: Founded in 2005 by former Mobil Corporation executive Tom DeLoach and NASCAR veteran Jeff Hammond, Red Horse Racing aims to be a professional racing team that strives for excellence on and off the race track. Red Horse Racing hopes to build and maintain solid, mutual relationships with its partners to win races and championships and to represent itself in a professional manner. The team has four victories and five poles in its brief existence. DeLoach and Hammond also own Performance Instruction Training (PIT), the number one pit crew training center in the world that also has many corporate training options that include team-building, lean manufacturing, motorsports demonstrations and more.
About TBC Retail Group
Headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida, TBC Retail Group, Inc., a subsidiary of TBC Corporation, operates more than 800 tire and automotive service centers under the brands: Tire Kingdom, NTB – National Tire and Battery, and Merchant’s Tire and Auto Centers, along with over 400 franchised Big O Tires locations. The contingent of over 1200 stores has trained and certified ASE technicians who use state-of-the-art equipment to provide quality service on cars and trucks. The nationwide warranty provides peace of mind while it protects consumers and their investment in over 40 states. TBC Retail Group employs more than 300 associates at its Juno Beach, Fla. headquarters and approximately 10,000 associates nationally. To locate a store near you, call 800-NEW-TIRE. TBC Corporation, headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is one of the nation’s largest marketers of automotive replacement tires through a multi-channel retail and wholesale strategy.
