Starting at short tracks in his home country, Murray Timm advanced his motorsports career to a longstanding role with one of NASCAR’s premiere teams. The Waterloo, ON resident started out racing hobby cars and modifieds in Southern Ontario in the 1980s, where he spent nine seasons behind-the-wheel. He also worked at Star Racing Engines from 1986 to 1993.

Timm was a crew member for Canadian driver Peter Gibbons in ARCA from 1994 to 1995, before moving to North Carolina to pursue a career at the sport’s highest level. He joined Hendrick Motorsports as a fabricator, progressing from the shop to the track, where he was a tire changer on Terry Labonte’s team. He also worked on pit crews for Jeff Gordon, Ricky Craven and Kyle Busch.

Timm continued to work as a crew member and fabricator across the three national NASCAR series, while becoming the aero specialist at Hendrick. He helped with Hendrick Motorsports’ transition to the NASCAR Cup Series’ current spec car and was part of 13 Cup championships with the team. Away from the shop, he started an organization called Pit Crews for Kids, part of the Hendrick Marrow Program, that visits the Pediatric Bone Marrow Unit at Duke University Hospitals. He also won the Papa Joe Hendrick Award in 2019, an award of excellence that’s voted on by company employees.

Outside of his working hours at Hendrick, he started his own race team, winning the CARS super late model championship in 2015 as crew chief, with his son as the driver.