Tim Viens | |||||||
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Born | Timothy Neil Viens October 10, 1976 South Hero, Vermont | ||||||
NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
4 races run over 3 years | |||||||
2021 position | 99th | ||||||
Best finish | 83rd (2020) | ||||||
First race | 2015 Ford EcoBoost 300 (Homestead) | ||||||
Last race | 2021 Wawa 250 (Daytona) | ||||||
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
15 races run over 4 years | |||||||
Truck no., team | No. 47 (G2G Racing) | ||||||
2023 position | 82nd | ||||||
Best finish | 43rd (2020) | ||||||
First race | 2015 Lucas Oil 200 (Dover) | ||||||
Last race | 2020 SpeedyCash.com 400 (Texas) | ||||||
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Timothy Neil Viens[1] (born October 10, 1976) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 47 Toyota Tundra for his own team, G2G Racing. He has also competed in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and ARCA Racing Series in the past.
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NARRATOR: Nestled along the Mediterranean Sea lies one of Spain's best kept secrets, the Costa Blanca. In the summer, tourists flock to its sandy beaches in droves, but during the winter, much of the town slips into hibernation. And a different sort of visitor arrives. Two of the world's best professional cycling teams, Astana and Omega Pharma-Quick Step, have arrived for the start of training camp and performance testing with Specialized Racing. MARK CAVENDISH: It's not that much fun, but it means-- it's good for training camp. You got nothing else to do except to ride your bike, and it gets you in a structured environment away from home. TANEL KANGERT: I think the day will show us where are we exactly, So far, I've been training here alone, so I have no idea how bad am I, really. NARRATOR: The deserted roads and surrounding hills make this an ideal place to begin training. TOM BOONEN: Riding here is very good. I like it a lot. Maybe it's because I've been coming here already for 15 years and doing my preparations for the season. So I know the roads pretty good. NARRATOR: The hallmark of team Astana is Tour de France front-runner, Vincenzo Nibali. Considered by many to be one of the strongest stage racers in the peloton, the Italian punctuated a dominate season last year by winning the 2013 Giro d'Italia. A victory at the Tour de France this year would complete his grand tour treble, a feat only five riders have ever accomplished. VINCENZO NIBALI: [SPEAKING ITALIAN] NARRATOR: For OPQS, all eyes are on UK sprinter Mark Cavendish. Cavendish's specialty is simple, sheer speed. Originally a track cyclist, Cavendish prides himself on being the fastest man on two wheels. And with 25 Tour de France stage wins under his belt, he has the record to back it up. MARK CAVENDISH: Fundamentally, everything's built around training. Now if you look at it like Formula 1 or MotoGP, like testing, it's kind of the same, except we're testing our engines, our bodies. NARRATOR: In less than seven months, both teams will be competing in the most prestigious race in the world, the Tour de France. Over 23 days they will be pushed to the brink, riding 3,200 kilometers, in one of the most grueling endurance events on the planet. From this point on, every ounce of food consumed and kilometer will be tracked to make sure they'll be in optimum shape for the start of the race. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: The start of any season begins with the basics. This includes evaluating the physical capabilities of each rider. for team Astana, the first test is often the most taxing, and telling. EVAN HUFFMAN: We did some blood lactate testing on a climb to establish everyone's threshold powers to set the training zones from there for the rest of the year. VINCENZO NIBALI: [SPEAKING ITALIAN] NARRATOR: The human body can only withstand a high intensity workload for a limited amount of time before the body's lactate levels rise to a point that will cause it to shut down. The work done here will give a value to set workouts for the rest of the year. [INTERPOSING VOICES] NARRATOR: In cycling, two things are certain. Aerodynamics are everything, and a 10th of a second could be the difference between someone winning and someone losing. In order to ensure a rider is achieving maximum speed, Specialized Racing has built a state of the art wind tunnel to test this. Another Tour de France hopeful, Alberto Contador, is hoping his time here will help him decrease energy output and increase speed. MARK CAVENDISH: I think that the aerodynamic at this moment is where you can work more. Now here in the wind tunnel, it's small things that the other people haven't. And for me, this is very important. NARRATOR: Hailing from Spain, El Pistolero is one of the five riders to have won all three grand tours. His career has been marked with triumphs and setbacks. But with his target set on donning the yellow jersey for a third time, preparation like this is everything. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Back in Spain, teams Astana and Omega Pharma Quick Step enter a controlled environment for more extensive testing. SIMONE TOCCAFONDI: When you have to go to the next speed, you take the entire lap to go up to speed. Because we want to avoid spikes. NARRATOR: Here, specialists can study even the most minute details, like a rider's seating position, and quantify how the slightest changes made can reap maximum gains for the rider. MARK CAVENDISH: He would do aerodynamic testing. Different positions on the time trial bike. You got the telemetry systems up. They put stress gages on the power meters on the bike. And measure airflow or pressure against the bike to get how aerodynamic the position is. NARRATOR: Using science, along with cutting edge technology, Specialized Racing gives its riders the equipment and data they need to succeed. [MUSIC PLAYING] VINCENZO NIBALI: [SPEAKING ITALIAN] SIMONE TOCCAFONDI: Our main goal is performance. We have to identify the needs of our teams and our individual athlete. So Specialized Racing is in charge of providing this and making sure that these achievements are always the best that the athlete can get. MARK CAVENDISH: Specialized Racing is like no other bike company in the world. To simply, not just make these fast bikes and give them a sponsored team, but to make the individual riders go faster. NARRATOR: Like the bicycles they rely on, winning an event as demanding as the Tour de France involves a vast multitude of moving parts working together in perfect synchronization. Rider and team must learn to work as one, as they prepare for the daunting task that lies ahead. The irony, however, is inescapable. As important as the team is, when the race begins on July 5th, winning or losing will ultimately sit on the shoulders of a few. MARK CAVENDISH: The Tour de France is like no other bike race in the world. It's one of the top four sporting events on the planet. It's watched by nearly everyone, even people who aren't into cycling. VINCENZO NIBALI: [SPEAKING ITALIAN] ALBERTO CONTADOR: Training hard for the Tour, to fight for the victory. MARK CAVENDISH: It's so much faster. The emotions are bigger of everything. It's an emotional road. A person could be disappointed, but it can also mean elation. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Racing career
ARCA
Viens made his ARCA debut in 2012 at Salem driving the No. 67 Dodge for Carter 2 Motorsports, but finished last in the race as a did not start. Viens did not make any other starts that year or in 2013.
He returned to the team in 2014 for what appeared to be a full season run. He started the season in their No. 97 car, and when he did not qualify for the races at Toledo Speedway and New Jersey Motorsports Park, he moved into the Wayne Peterson Racing No. 06 Chevrolet. After seven races, Viens did not return to C2M and was without a ride until the Peterson team picked him back up for three starts. He ran one race in each of their cars: Chicago in the No. 06, Pocono in the No. 00, and Kansas in the No. 0.
In 2015, Viens returned to run part-time for Wayne Peterson and his team. He made a total of five starts that year, running Nashville, Talladega, both Pocono races, and Kentucky. In those five races, he drove all four Peterson cars at least once: the No. 00, the No. 0, the No. 06, and the No. 08. He did not finish in all of his starts. His most recent ARCA starts came in 2016, where he drove the WPR No. 06 at Daytona and Talladega.
Truck Series
Viens debuted in the Truck Series in 2015. He attempted 4 races in 2015 but failed to qualify for two. He withdrew from the 4th race he attempted in 2015. Viens made only one start in 2015.[2] Viens returned in 2016, attempting 5 races and starting 3. He failed to qualify for one of them and withdrew from one.[3] In 2017, Viens returned to drive the No. 1 truck for TJL Motorsports at Daytona, but failed to qualify.[4] After not making another attempt in 2017, he returned in early with 2018 at Atlanta with Mike Harmon's No. 74, failing to qualify.
After originally announcing an effort with Mike Affarano Motorsports for the 2020 Daytona race, the team's hauler slid off a highway en route to the track and was not able to compete.[5] After failing to qualify for Charlotte and Atlanta, Viens and the No. 03 were supposed to run at Homestead-Miami but the No. 03 failed pre-race inspection and NASCAR forced them to withdraw since the repairs could not be made at the track.[6] After that incident, Viens and Mike Affarano Motorsports parted ways. Viens later joined CMI Motorsports for a part-time Truck schedule beginning at Pocono.[7]
Viens would rejoin CMI Motorsports in 2021, initially stating he was running full time in the No. 83 truck.[8] In his first attempt to qualify in the 2021 season at the NextEra Energy 250 at Daytona, while getting ready for his qualifying run, the driveshaft of his truck fell off the car, and thus Viens could not set a time and failed to qualify.[9] Due to a combination of factors, including his DNQ, NASCAR's qualifying format for races without such sessions, lack of owner's points, and the number of cars entered, Viens DNQ'd again at the BrakeBest Select 159 at the Daytona International Speedway road course.
On May 26, 2021, Viens announced on social media that he would start up a new race team, called G2G Racing, and it would run its first race in 2022. He had purchased Kyle Busch Motorsports trucks the previous week.[10]
Xfinity Series
He made his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut in the 2015 Ford EcoBoost 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway for Mike Harmon Racing. During the race, he switched the ride with team owner Mike Harmon; as Viens started the race, he was credited with the 33rd-place finish. He returned to Miami three years later with Harmon but failed to make the field.
Later starts with MHR came in 2018, but failed to qualify, but ran other races in 2020, 2021, and 2022.[11]
Personal life
Viens is an alumnus of Glenville State College, where he played college football as a placekicker. Continuing his involvement in football after college, he tried out for the NFL, but was unsuccessful.[1] After the unsuccessful endeavor, Tim would move to Daytona Beach, Florida and play for the Daytona Thunder for a professional arena football league.[1] He later founded the Vermont Bucks indoor football team in 2016 and, when the league in which it was planning to compete suspended operations prior to the Bucks' inaugural season,[12] established the Can-Am Indoor Football League for the 2017 season. The Can-Am league was based around the Bucks, a few traveling teams Viens established such as the Boston Blaze,[13] and established semi-professional football teams. Viens then created the Atlanta Havoc indoor football team for in the American Arena League (AAL), of which he was also a co-founder, and sold the Bucks to a local ownership group to also play in the AAL. The Bucks would end up folding before playing a game in the league and Viens would also step away from his roles in the Havoc and AAL on April 14, 2018.[14]
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.)
Xfinity Series
Craftsman Truck Series
* 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | ARSC | Pts | Ref |
2012 | Carter 2 Motorsports | 67 | Dodge | DAY | MOB | SLM | TAL | TOL | ELK | POC | MCH | WIN | NJE | IOW | CHI | IRP | POC | BLN | ISF | MAD | SLM DNS |
DSF | KAN | 154th | 0 | [28] |
2014 | 97 | DAY 22 |
MOB 23 |
SLM 26 |
TAL 23 |
TOL DNQ |
NJE DNQ |
POC 30 |
MCH | ELK | WIN | 23rd | 1310 | [29] | ||||||||||||
Wayne Peterson Racing | 06 | Chevy | TOL 25 |
NJE 20 |
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Ford | CHI 21 |
IRP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
00 | Chevy | POC 25 |
BLN | ISF | MAD | DSF | SLM | KEN | ||||||||||||||||||
0 | Ford | KAN 33 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 | DAY | MOB | NSH 26 |
SLM | 55th | 410 | [30] | |||||||||||||||||||
00 | TAL 35 |
TOL | NJE | KEN 27 |
KAN | |||||||||||||||||||||
08 | Chevy | POC 31 |
MCH | CHI | WIN | IOW | IRP | |||||||||||||||||||
06 | Dodge | POC 29 |
BLN | ISF | DSF | SLM | ||||||||||||||||||||
2016 | Chevy | DAY 26 |
NSH | SLM | 111th | 115 | [31] | |||||||||||||||||||
0 | TAL 35 |
TOL | NJE | POC | MCH | MAD | WIN | IOW | IRP | POC | BLN | ISF | DSF | SLM | CHI | KEN | KAN |
References
- ^ a b c The Tale of Tim Viens, retrieved 2021-04-03
- ^ "Driver Tim Viens 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
- ^ "Driver Tim Viens 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
- ^ "Driver Tim Viens 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
- ^ Christie, Toby (13 February 2020). "Tim Viens Says That the Affarano Motorsports Trump Truck Will Not Compete at Daytona". TobyChristie.com. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
- ^ Christie, Toby (14 June 2020). "Tim Viens, Race Fans For Trump Cutting Ties With Affarano Motorsports After Frustration at Homestead". TobyChristie.com. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
- ^ Srigley, Joseph (June 19, 2020). "Ray Ciccarelli's CMI Motorsports Reveals Plans for Full-Time Schedule, Taps Tim Viens for Multi-Race Deal in No. 83 Truck". TobyChristie.com. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
- ^ "I will be attending all 22 in 2021". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
- ^ "Video: Driveshaft Flies Out of Tim Viens' Truck As He Attempts to Leave Pit Road For Qualifying". TobyChristie.com. 2021-02-12. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
- ^ Nguyen, Justin (May 27, 2021). "Tim Viens unveils Glory 2 God Racing for 2022 Truck season". The Checkered Flag. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
- ^ Srigley, Joseph (June 18, 2020). "Tim Viens Announces He'll Drive Mike Harmon's No. 47 Car at Talladega, Ray Ciccarelli's No. 83 Truck at Pocono". TobyChristie.com. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
- ^ "Vermont Bucks forced to find new league". Burlington Free Press. July 18, 2016.
- ^ "Vermont Bucks to Play Central Penn Chargers, Not Boston Blaze, in East Division Playoff". My Champlain Valley.com. May 21, 2017.
- ^ "American Arena League Co-Founder Tim Viens Steps Down". Inside the Arena. April 17, 2018. Archived from the original on April 18, 2018. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 26, 2022.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2020 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2021 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved May 3, 2023.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2023 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
- ^ "Tim Viens − 2012 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2014 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2015 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
- ^ "Tim Viens – 2016 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
External links
- Tim Viens driver statistics at Racing-Reference
- Boston Blaze website