Timothy Peters No. 17 Toyota Tundra
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race 13 of 25 Lucas Oil Raceway
STARTING FIRST: Timothy Peters has four career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series pole awards. Last season he earned two pole awards, one at the track dubbed “Too Tough to Tame” Darlington (SC) Raceway and at Lucas (Ind.) Oil Raceway. Peters will need a good starting position this weekend as no Truck Series winner at Lucas Oil Raceway has ever started outside the top eight positions.
OMEN: Three out of the last four winners at Lucas Oil Raceway went on to hoist the Truck Series championship trophy at the end of the season. Peters is only 47 points away from taking over the top spot and only five markers away from taking over third position in the Truck Series point standings. A win at Lucas Oil Raceway could mean more than just a trophy Friday night.
LAP LEADER:Peters is ranked fourth among active drivers in laps led at Lucas Oil Raceway. Last year Peters led a total of 71 laps before recording his career-best finish at the track taking home a 10th-place finish.
CHASSIS HISTORY: The No. 17 team will utilize chassis No. 137 this weekend at Lucas Oil Raceway. This chassis last competed at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway where Peters earned a fifth-place finish.
PREVIOUS RACE RECAP:Last week at Nashville Superspeedway Peters and the No. 17 team led 67 laps at the 1.33-mile Superspeedway. Peters looked to be well on his way to his first win of 2011 when the caution flew on lap 102. The team called for four tires and fuel. The eventual race winner took only two tires under the pit sequence. Peters restarted the race from the fifth position and was only able to make it back up to the third position before the checkered flag flew. The run marked Peters fifth top-five finish in five starts at Nashville.
Timothy Peters Talks about Lucas Oil Raceway
After a solid run last week at Nashville do you carry any momentum heading into Lucas Oil Raceway this weekend? “We certainly do. Last week was a run our team really needed. I’m really looking forward to this weekend’s race at Lucas Oil Raceway. I feel like I’m getting back into my element as we return to short-track racing. We are taking the same truck we finished fifth with at Martinsville. I think we have a good set-up and plan for this weekend’s event. I’m really glad the Truck Series season has gotten rolling I feel like the No. 17 Red Horse Racing Toyota Tundra team is on a roll too.”
There have been talks among NASCAR officials that this will be the last Truck Series race at Lucas Oil Raceway. What are your thoughts on this venue being removed from the schedule? “I would really hate to lose this track on the schedule. The Truck Series was built on short-track racing. I think that these types of tracks that have lots of history and deep racing roots need to remain on the Truck Series schedule. I understand NASCAR’s choice to move the Nationwide Series to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but I would like to see the trucks continue to race at Lucas Oil Raceway. We always have a packed house for the event, the staff here is great and I think the on-track action rivals my favorite track in Martinsville, Virginia.” 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.
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