Timothy Peters No. 17 Red Horse Racing Toyota Tundra Bristol Motor Speedway Advance

Timothy Peters

No. 17 Red Horse Racing Toyota Tundra

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series | Race 13 of 22

Bristol Motor Speedway | NCWTS 200

Short Tracks Take Me Back: The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series rolls into Bristol Motor Speedway this Wednesday night for a mid-week 200-lap shootout. Timothy Peters and the No. 17 Red Horse Racing team enter this week’s competition after a short turnaround from Michigan on Saturday hoping to clear Bristol unscathed. Improving his results every year since 2009, Peters finished a career best fifth last season in the No. 17. Crew chief Butch Hylton and the team will bring one of their favorite Tundras to the Tennessee bull ring this week after its visit to victory lane with Peters behind the wheel in July at Iowa Speedway.

A change in the surface of the half-mile concrete oval may throw a curve ball at the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) competitors, taking away the progressive banking and the high groove up near the wall. Most drivers feel there will still be plenty of side-by-side racing and typical Bristol tangles on the track. Despite the changes, Peters is looking forward to the short track racing that reminds him of his racing roots.

“I really enjoy racing on short tracks because it reminds me of my late model racing career and the tracks I got my start on. It’s comfortable for me to go to high banked, fast tracks like Bristol because it reminds me a lot of Orange County Speedway, one of those places where I got my start racing late models,” Peters explained.

Previous Race Recap:NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship points leader Timothy Peters and the No. 17 Red Horse Racing team traveled to Michigan Speedway with a brand new chassis ready for battle in the VFW 200. Looking for stability and the correct balance throughout the weekend, Peters and his crew never relented in their search and survived an intense 200 miles to come home in 13th.

Chassis History:Crew chief Butch Hylton and the No. 17 Red Horse Racing team have prepared chassis number 93 for 200 laps of short track racing at Bristol Motor Speedway this Wednesday. This particular Tundra visited victory lane with Peters at Iowa Speedway in July.

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Timothy Peters on Bristol Motor Speedway

Going into a short track like Bristol while in the hunt for a championship, do you have to change your strategy?

“I look at it as trying to come out with a clean truck, kind of like we did at Martinsville. Bristol is in a category of tracks where you can get in someone else’s trouble and it not be your fault, which could get your equipment torn up. We definitely don’t want any more of that; you’re going so fast there and things happen so quickly that you just want to make sure that you’re on the up and up and hopefully at the end of the day you have a good run.”

How will the changes made to the surface of the track affect the racing on Wednesday?

“They really didn’t repave it; they just took away the progressive banking. There’s still going to be great side-by-side racing but you’re not going to be able to go up to the wall like in the past there. So I think whoever gets their truck working well on the bottom, it’s going to be just like the old Bristol and that’s going to be your winner.”

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 eight victories and seven 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.

Timothy Peters

Bristol Motor Speedway

NCWTS Statistics

Starts: 7

Top-five: 1

Top-10: 3

Average Start: 13.3

Average Finish: 20.1

Race Info

August 22, 2012

Bristol Motor Speedway

.5-Mile Oval