🇺🇸 Doug Peterson

Doug Peterson is a competitive amateur racer, FIA Bronze-graded, competing in national single-class and multiclass sprint racing in the United States. He drives TA2 tube-frame V8 silhouette cars for Peterson Racing in Trans-Am TA2, where he has made 47 starts since 2018, and Ford Mustang Dark Horse R cars in the Mustang Challenge, with 16 starts from 2025 onward. His primary team through the early part of his career was American Speed Factory, for which he made 34 starts across Star Mazda Championship and other series.[1]

Peterson's indexed racing spans 24 years from 2002 to the present. His longest tenure has been in Trans-Am TA2, where he has competed in every season since 2018 and finished 12th in the 2020 championship standings. Before that he spent five seasons in Star Mazda Championship with American Speed Factory from 2002 to 2006, making 41 starts in a field that mixed amateurs with graded professionals. He has also made brief appearances in IMSA Prototype Challenge, piloting an LMP3 prototype in 2017, and in Trans-Am proper in 2019 and 2020.[2]

In Trans-Am TA2, Peterson typically finishes behind regular competitors including Rafa Matos, a two-time TA2 champion and former Star Mazda champion who has raced at entry-level professional level across multiple series, and Tom Sheehan, a semi-professional regular with 71 TA2 starts. Peterson has on separate occasions finished ahead of Christopher Bell and Ty Gibbs, both elite professional drivers with multiple NASCAR championships between them, though these instances have been rare in his record.