Timothy Peters Red Horse Racing Chicagoland Speedway Team Advance

TIME TO CONQUER: If anyone anticipates returning to a 1.5-mile track, it’s Timothy Peters and his No. 17 Parts Plus Toyota Tundra team. Peters andthe Red Horse Racing squad have one last item open on their checklist at an intermediate track. A win. That, like every other NASCAR Camping World Truck Series weekend will be on the agenda – but with seven races left in the season, a little edge will push the team during the EnjoyIllinios.com 225 at Chicagoland Speedway.

RIGHT AT HOME: Crew Chief of Timothy Peter’s No. 17 Toyota Tundra is always ready for Chicagoland Speedway. Butch Hylton hails from Rockford, IL just a short two hour trip southeast from the track. Hylton moved to North Carolina in 1990 to join the NASCAR circuit and has been a part of the Red Horse Racing family since 2011.

Team Engineer, Craig Noble also shares the excitement of Chicagoland growing up just two hours south of the speedway in Farmer City, IL. Noble is in his third season at Red Horse Racing after moving to North Carolina in 2007. He brings with him an engineering degree from  the University of Illinois.

PARTS PLUS: Parts Plus joins Timothy Peters as primary sponsor on his No. 17 Toyota Tundra as the Series heads to Chicagoland Speedway. The Memphis-based warehouse distributor originated more than 56 years ago tracing back to a series of jobber programs. Since 2005, Parts Plus has been a member of the Automotive Distribution Network that has over 300 member distributors under five brand names and from over 400 separate warehouses across the United States, Mexico, Canada and Puerto Rico. For more information on Parts Plus and locations near you, visit PartsPlus.com.

CHASSIS HISTORY: The No. 17 Parts Plus Toyota Tundra team will take Chassis No. 007 to Chicagoland Speedway this weekend. The intermediate chassis was most recently raced at Texas Motor Speedway. Chassis No. 007 made its debut at Texas Motor Speedway last fall and collected a 10th-place finish. Most recently, Peters earned a third-place starting position at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May.

MEET & GREET: Peters, along with teammates Germán Quiroga and John Wes Townley will visit the Toyota Pitpass Stage on Friday afternoon in the Chicagoland Speedway Vendor Midway at 1:30pm.

REARVIEW MIRROR – IOWA SPEEDWAY: Timothy Peters came to Iowa Speedway as the only two-time winner at the track and had high hopes of making it his third win. He qualified the No. 17 Parts Plus Toyota Tundra sixth and as soon as the green flag dropped started moving forward. Peters was able to collect a bonus point on lap 122 as he lead a lap before hitting pit road for green-flag pit stops. With the leader to pit road, Peters assumed the second place position for the restart. Peters took over the lead on Lap 141 and would lead for 21 laps before the third caution was waved with 31 laps remaining. As the field took the green flag, Peters made contact with another competitor shuffling him to the third place. But then there was contact with another truck that took Peters out of contention with four laps to go. The race ended on a green-white-checkered finish with the Parts Plus Tundra finishing 12th.

Timothy Peters on Chicagoland Speedway:

How anxious are you about winning on a 1.5-mile track?

“I definitely want to win on a 1.5-mile track. I have been very fortunate to win six races and five of those were on a short track. I want to have that win on different style track. I certainly want that win for myself but also to be able to get the first for Red Horse Racing. 

How is the Red Horse Racing 1.5-mile program heading into Chicago?

“It’s getting better.  It just seems like every mile-and-a-half that we’ve been to this year, we haven’t run bad. We just haven’t gotten the job done.  Hopefully we have all that out of our way and from here to Homestead (Miami-Speedway) it’s blue skies.”

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