Dodge Motorsports driver Timothy Peters made the most of a tough situation in Friday night’s Quaker Steak and Lube 200 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Peters suffered a cut right front tire during an early morning practice session which forced his Dodge hard into the wall and required him to go to his backup Dodge Motorsports Dodge. Faced with having to qualify on time to make the event, Peters qualified his Dodge in the 19th position, ensuring a spot in the field, despite making only one lap in his backup truck during the last practice session. The Providence, NC native battled a tight race truck throughout the event and posted a 23rd place finish.

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• During the pace laps of the event Peters dropped his Dodge Motorsports Dodge to the rear of the field in order to feel out his chassis. Without adequate practice time to dial in his truck Peters wanted to make sure everything was properly functioning.

• When Marcus Ambrose and Jack Sprague tangled on lap four, Peters elected to bring his Dodge down pit road for four tires, fuel and an air pressure adjustment to help cure his truck’s tight condition.

• Peters went one lap down due to Kyle Busch’s torrid pace on lap 37.

• On lap 45 Crew Chief Kip McCord asked Peters how tight his truck was on a scale of 1 to 10. Peters radioed back that it was a 5.

• Peters pitted again under caution on lap 49 for four tires, fuel and another air pressure adjustment. He restarted in the 27th position.

• On lap 62 Peters informed his crew that his Dodge Motorsports Dodge was “chattering” the right front tire.

• On lap 79 he radioed McCord to say, “I’m okay in turns one and two but I can’t get through turns three and four. It is vibrating the right front real bad.”

• When the caution flag fell for the third time in the event, McCord called Peters down pit road for four tires, fuel and a chassis adjustment – two rounds up on the track bar. Peters restarted in the 24th position, two laps down to the leaders.

• Peters pitted again on lap 96 under caution for a cross weight chassis adjustment, a clean windshield tear off and to clean the front grill of his Dodge.

• Peters never could shake the vibration on the right front of his Dodge Motorsports Dodge and as a result finished in the 23rd position.

Kyle Busch won the Quaker Steak and Lube 200 in front of an estimated crowd of 45,000. Terry Cook, Todd Bodine, Ted Musgrave and Ron Hornaday Jr. rounded out the top five. The next event for the NCTS competitors is slated for May 27th at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway in Mansfield, OH.