Tim Steele (racer)
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| Nationality | American | ||||||
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March 1, 1968 Coopersville, Michigan 
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| Retired | 2007 | ||||||
| Automobile Racing Club of America | |||||||
| Years active | 1992–2006 | ||||||
| Starts | 146 | ||||||
| Wins | 41 | ||||||
| Poles | 31 | ||||||
| Best finish | 1st in 1993, 1996, 1997 | ||||||
| Championship titles | |||||||
| 1993, 1996, 1997 1984 |
ARCA Re/Max Series NAMRA Champ Car division |
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| Awards | |||||||
| 2009 1993 |
Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame ARCA Rookie of the Year |
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| Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
| 5 races run over 1 year | |||||||
| Best finish | 52nd (1994) | ||||||
| First race | 1994 Miller Genuine Draft 400 (Michigan) | ||||||
| Last race | 1994 DieHard 500 (Talladega) | ||||||
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| NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
| 10 races run over 3 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 46th (1997) | ||||||
| First race | 1993 Detroit Gasket 200 (Michigan) | ||||||
| Last race | 1997 Birmingham Auto Dealers 500K (Talladega) | ||||||
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| NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career | |||||||
| 13 races run over 1 year | |||||||
| Best finish | 25th (1999) | ||||||
| First race | 1999 Florida Dodge Dealers 400 (Homestead) | ||||||
| Last race | 1999 Kroger 225 (Louisville) | ||||||
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| Statistics current as of July 24, 2012. | |||||||
Tim Steele (born March 1, 1968 in Coopersville, Michigan) is a retired American stock car racer. He won three ARCA Remax Series national championships and raced in NASCAR's highest three series. He was inducted in the Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.
Steele began racing as a 5-year-old in motorcycle ice racing. He finished second in Michigan's 125cc AMA division. In 1984, the 16-year-old won the NAMRA Champ Cars division championship and was the division's Rookie of the Year; he also raced in International Jet Ski Racing events that season. He continued to move up the ladder and began racing late models at Berlin Raceway. He began racing on regional touring series, winning in the American Speed Association in 1990 and the NASCAR All-Pro Series in 1992.
Tim started out in the 1993 Season driving for Harold Steele’s HS Die Team. It was a very successful year. He went on to win the Championship that year and earned the Rookie of the Year award. He went on and continued to win races also winning the championship in 1996 and 1997. Steele won 12 times in 1997, the most wins in the series since 1973.
In November 1997 he was involved in a serious accident in which he suffered a brain injury. At the time he was planning on moving up to the Winston Cup Series to try and contend for rookie of the year. He was ten days away from signing up with a team to be owned by his father Harold and Green Bay Packers Quarterback Brett Favre, who were planning to purchase Bud Moore Engineering. The accident damaged his brain, doctors told him he could not handle another trauma. Much of 1998 he spent going from doctor to doctor to see if a comeback was possible. He battled a dependency on prescription drug oxycontin which he was taking for headaches. Finally in June 1998, Tim made his comeback to the ARCA series at Pocono. He won the race and went on to race in five more races that year winning three of them. In 1999, Tim only competed in one race at Talladega finishing 34th after a crash.
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