Timothy Peters Earns Top-Three Finish in 200th Series Start

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In the 200th start of his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career, Timothy Peters earned a third-place finish after leading 41 of 150 laps in the American Ethanol e15 225 at Chicagoland Speedway. In the only practice session of the weekend on Friday, Peters posted the fifth-fastest time. This would eventually earn him the fifth starting position, as knockout qualifying was canceled due to inclement weather and the field was set by practice times. The 150-lap event was postponed from Friday night to Saturday morning after strong storms entered the area that evening. On Saturday morning, crews dried the track for a 10:30 a.m. ET start time, and Peters rolled off in the fifth position. Peters fell back to seventh on the start, and reported that the red and white No. 17 Toyota Tundra was a little tight in Turns 1 and 2. During the competition caution on Lap 30, crew chief Marcus Richmond brought the veteran driver to pit road for four fresh Goodyear tires and Sunoco fuel, and the quick stop enabled Peters to restart in the third position. On lap 38, he moved into the second position, but still fighting a tight condition, asked Richmond to free him up a little. The field began to cycle through green flag pit stops, and Peters came to pit road on lap 83 from the third position, but an incident in the infield grass caused the yellow flag to fly. Richmond instructed Peters to drive through and stay out until pit road was open. The team was lightning-quick with another four-tire stop and after a lengthy caution, several trucks came to pit road to top off with fuel, so Peters was scored as the leader on the restart. He led 41 laps until returning to pit road for fuel and two tires with 15 laps to go, which caused him to fall back to the eighth position. As pit stops cycled through and other competitors ran out of fuel in the closing laps, Peters charged up to third and picked up his third top-10 finish in seven starts at Chicagoland Speedway. 
 
Start – 5
Finish – 3
Driver Points Position – 7
Laps Led – 41
 
Timothy Peters Quotes:
How strong was the truck today?
“We definitely had a great Red Horse Racing Tundra here today. When we came down pit road under the green flag and the caution came out, it was the right call to go through so we didn’t get caught a lap down. This is what this team is about right here, we’ve really worked hard and we’re coming into our own right now. I’m just proud of Marcus (Richmond, crew chief) and all the guys on this crew did an awesome job. Not a bad day for us.” 
 
What was going through your mind when the team wanted you to conserve fuel?
“It’s just the way the trucks are built. You can’t change it unless a caution comes out. I saw rain – whatever I could see I was radioing back in. It was a great run for our Tundra today. Thanks to the guys back at the shop and Triad motors and all the guys here – pit road was awesome. This is what this team is all about. We’ve been hit or miss but I feel like we came into our zone. We’ll get on a roll and we have seven more opportunities to go to victory lane.”

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