Tim George Jr.
George at the 2010 Nationwide race at Road America
Born (1980-12-21) December 21, 1980 (age 43)
Manhattan, New York
Awards2008 Rolex Sports Car Series Rookie of the Year
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
4 races run over 2 years
Best finish58th (2011)
First race2010 Bucyrus 200 (Road America)
Last race2011 Zippo 200 (Watkins Glen)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
24 races run over 4 years
2013 position26th
Best finish22nd (2012)
First race2009 Lucas Oil 150 (Phoenix)
Last race2013 Pocono Mountains 125 (Pocono)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 1 1
Statistics current as of August 3, 2013.

Tim George Jr. (born December 21, 1980) is an American professional stock car racing driver.

Personal life and early career

George was born on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 1980 as the son of investment banker Timothy M. George. George Sr. is the treasurer of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka the New York Philharmonic) and founded the Potomac Family Dining Group, which owns several Applebee's franchises. He also served as an executive for JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs.[1]

George began his racing career in 2005. Employed at the time as a chef in a New York–based Italian restaurant, he was catering at a sports-car racing event at the road course at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut, and when he was criticized by the head chef for having modified a recipe, he took a break to watch the cars race.[2] He soon enrolled in racing school,[2] and first competed in the 2005 Skip Barber Racing School Southern Series.[3] He raced in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series for TRG Motorsports in 2007 and 2008, winning the 2008 Rookie of the Year award and one race, at New Jersey Motorsports Park,[4] before moving to full-time stock-car racing.[3] He is single.[3]

Stock car career

Though only completing two events in the actual NASCAR series, George competed in the ARCA Racing Series starting in 2008, driving at first for TRG Motorsports, then for Eddie Sharp Racing before joining Richard Childress Racing at the start of the 2010 season.[5] He scored his first win in the series at Pocono Raceway in a rain-shortened event in the summer of 2011,[2] leading only the last two laps before the race was called due to rain, darkness, and fog.[6] He finished seventh in season points in 2011, his best career points finish in the ARCA Racing Series.[3]

George made occasional starts in the NASCAR-sanctioned Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series during the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons. His first start in the Truck Series was at Phoenix International Raceway in 2009,[7] and his first Nationwide Series start was at Road America in 2010.[8] He attempted to qualify for the 2011 season-ending Ford 200 in the Camping World Truck Series, driving for RCR in conjunction with Eddie Sharp Racing, but failed to qualify when time trials were rained out.[9]

George competed part-time in the Camping World Truck Series for Richard Childress Racing in 2012, driving for the team's with Applebee's sponsorship in twelve races over the course of the season.[10] After finishing 22nd in points, he returned to the series in 2013, driving for Wauters Motorsports.[11]

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Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Nationwide Series

NASCAR Nationwide Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 NNSC Pts Ref
2010 Richard Childress Racing 21 Chevy DAY CAL LVS BRI NSH PHO TEX TAL RCH DAR DOV CLT NSH KEN ROA
32 		NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP IOW GLN MCH BRI CGV ATL RCH DOV KAN CAL CLT GTY TEX PHO HOM 130th 67 [12]
2011 DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL TEX TAL
36 		NSH RCH DAR DOV IOW CLT CHI MCH ROA DAY
21 		KEN NHA NSH IRP IOW GLN
21 		CGV
DNQ 		BRI ATL RCH CHI DOV KAN CLT TEX PHO HOM 58th 54 [13]

Camping World Truck Series

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 NCWTC Pts Ref
2009 Richard Childress Racing 22 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR KAN CLT DOV TEX MCH MLW MEM KEN IRP NSH BRI CHI IOW GTW NHA LVS MAR TAL TEX PHO
29 		HOM 102nd 76 [14]
2010 DAY ATL MAR NSH KAN DOV CLT TEX MCH IOW GTY IRP POC NSH DAR BRI CHI KEN NHA LVS MAR TAL TEX PHO
23 		HOM 100th 97 [15]
2011 Eddie Sharp Racing 45 Chevy DAY PHO DAR MAR NSH DOV CLT KAN TEX KEN IOW NSH IRP POC MCH BRI ATL CHI NHA KEN LVS TAL MAR TEX HOM
DNQ 		NA 01 [16]
2012 Richard Childress Racing 2 Chevy DAY MAR CAR
16 		KAN
17 		CLT DOV TEX KEN
24 		IOW
15 		CHI POC
15 		MCH
21 		BRI ATL
28 		IOW
22 		KEN
18 		LVS TAL
9 		HOM
18 		22nd 298 [17]
RSS Racing 93 Chevy MAR
27 		TEX PHO
2013 Wauters Motorsports 5 Ford DAY
16 		MAR
22 		CAR
18 		KAN
14 		26th 252 [18]
Chevy CLT
16 		DOV
25 		TEX
21 		KEN
18 		IOW
23 		ELD POC
16 		MCH BRI MSP IOW CHI LVS TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM

K&N Pro Series East

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NKNPSEC Pts Ref
2008 Buchanan-Mitchell Racing 23 Chevy GRE IOW SBO GLN
22 		NHA TMP NSH ADI LRP MFD NHA DOV STA 70th 97 [19]
2012 Spraker Racing 37 Chevy BRI GRE RCH IOW BGS JFC LGY CNB COL IOW NHA DOV GRE CAR
17 		64th 27 [20]

* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points

ARCA Racing Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Racing Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ARSC Pts Ref
2008 TRG Motorsports 71 Chevy DAY SLM IOW KAN CAR KEN TOL POC MCH CAY KEN BLN POC NSH
31 		ISF DSF CHI SLM NJE TAL
20 		TOL 91st 205 [21]
2009 Eddie Sharp Racing 2 Toyota DAY
8 		SLM
24 		CAR
15 		TAL
13 		KEN
14 		TOL
17 		POC
19 		MCH
13 		MFD
22 		IOW
19 		KEN
23 		BLN
25 		POC
19 		ISF
14 		CHI
21 		TOL
16 		DSF
23 		NJE
5 		SLM
22 		KAN
15 		CAR
22 		11th 4235 [22]
2010 Richard Childress Racing 31 Chevy DAY
19 		PBE
8 		SLM
16 		TEX
13 		TAL
3 		TOL
25 		POC
10 		MCH
8 		IOW
12 		MFD
4 		POC
18 		BLN
16 		NJM
11 		ISF
15 		CHI
16 		DSF
13 		TOL
14 		SLM
12 		KAN
15 		CAR
34 		9th 4215 [23]
2011 DAY
27 		TAL
18 		SLM
11 		TOL
4 		NJE
4 		CHI
32 		POC
1 		MCH
3 		WIN
11 		BLN
2 		IOW
5 		IRP
28 		POC
2 		ISF
16 		MAD
9 		DSF
9 		SLM
3 		KAN
16 		TOL
17 		7th 4325 [24]

24 Hours of Daytona

(key)

24 Hours of Daytona results
Year Class No Team Car Co-drivers Laps Position Class Pos.
2008 GT 71 United States The Racer's Group Porsche GT3 Cup United States Bryan Sellers
United States Spencer Pumpelly
France Emmanuel Collard
France Romain Dumas 		657 11 3
2009 GT 66 United States The Racer's Group Porsche GT3 Cup United States Ted Ballou
United States Spencer Pumpelly
France Emmanuel Collard
Australia Richard Lietz 		694 10 2
2010 GT 71 United States The Racer's Group Porsche GT3 Cup United States Spencer Pumpelly
Germany Timo Bernhard
France Romain Dumas
United States Bobby Labonte 		668 16 9
2011 GT 66 United States The Racer's Group Porsche GT3 Cup Germany Dominik Farnbacher
United States Ben Keating
Germany Lucas Luhr 		612 27 DNF 13 DNF

References

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  2. ^ a b c Caldwell, Dave (June 18, 2011). "Manhattan Meets Nascar as Chef Becomes a Racer". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  3. ^ a b c d "Background". Tim George Jr. official website. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  4. ^ Phillips, David (February 7, 2009). "Bleacher Report Exclusive: ARCA's Tim George Jr". Bleacher Report. San Francisco, California: Bleacher Report, Inc. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
  5. ^ "Tim George Jr". Richard Childress Racing. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  6. ^ Pearce, Al (June 11, 2011). "Tim George Jr. wins rain-shortened ARCA race at Pocono". AutoWeek. Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  7. ^ "George Jr. To Make Truck Debut At Phoenix For RCR". SPEEDtv.com. Fox Sports. November 11, 2009. Archived from the original on November 12, 2009. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  8. ^ "Tim George Jr. to Make NASCAR Nationwide Series Debut at Road America". Skip Barber Racing School. June 27, 2010. Archived from the original on June 7, 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  9. ^ "The Rain, the Truck and Other Things". Tim George Jr. official website. November 18, 2011. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  10. ^ Bruce, Kenny (December 7, 2011). "Tim George Jr. to run partial Truck Series schedule for RCR". SceneDaily.com. The Sporting News. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  11. ^ Adamczyk, Jay. "2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Team / Driver Chart". Jayski's Silly Season Site. ESPN. Archived from the original on 2012-11-27. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
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  20. ^ "Tim George Jr. – 2012 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  21. ^ "Tim George Jr. – 2008 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
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