Tim George, Jr.

Tim George Jr. (born December 21, 1980) is an American former 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.

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. He soon enrolled in racing school, before moving to full-time stock-car racing. He scored his first win in the series at Pocono Raceway in a rain-shortened event in the summer of 2011, He finished seventh in season points in 2011, his best career points finish in the ARCA Racing Series.

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, and his first Nationwide Series start was at Road America in 2010. 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.

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. After finishing 22nd in points, he returned to the series in 2013, driving for Wauters Motorsports.

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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 Pts Ref 2010 Richard Childress Racing 21 Chevy DAY CAL LVS BRI NSH PHO TEX TAL RCH DAR DOV CLT NSH KEN ROA32 NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP IOW GLN MCH BRI CGV ATL RCH DOV KAN CAL CLT GTY TEX PHO HOM 130th 67 2011 DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL TEX TAL36 NSH RCH DAR DOV IOW CLT CHI MCH ROA DAY21 KEN NHA NSH IRP IOW GLN21 CGVDNQ BRI ATL RCH CHI DOV KAN CLT TEX PHO HOM 58th 54

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 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 PHO29 HOM 102nd 76 2010 DAY ATL MAR NSH KAN DOV CLT TEX MCH IOW GTY IRP POC NSH DAR BRI CHI KEN NHA LVS MAR TAL TEX PHO23 HOM 100th 97 2011 Eddie Sharp Racing 45 Chevy DAY PHO DAR MAR NSH DOV CLTKAN TEX KEN IOW NSH IRP POC MCH BRI ATL CHI NHA KEN LVS TAL MAR TEX HOMDNQ NA 01 2012 Richard Childress Racing 2 Chevy DAY MAR CAR16 KAN17 CLT DOV TEX KEN24 IOW15 CHI POC15 MCH21 BRI ATL28 IOW22 KEN18 LVS TAL9 HOM18 22nd 298 RSS Racing 93 Chevy MAR27 TEX PHO 2013 Wauters Motorsports 5 Ford DAY16 MAR22 CAR18 KAN14 26th 252 Chevy CLT16 DOV25 TEX21 KEN18 IOW23 ELD POC16 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 Pts Ref 2008 Buchanan-Mitchell Racing 23 Chevy GRE IOW SBO GLN 22 NHA TMP NSH ADI LRP MFD NHA DOV STA 70th 97 2012 Spraker Racing 37 Chevy BRI GRE RCH IOW BGS JFC LGY CNB COL IOW NHA DOV GRE CAR 17 64th 27

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