![]() ![]() 26 Clarence’s Steakhouse and Danville Toyota car, in action during the NASCAR Advanced Auto Parts Weekly Series at Dominion Raceway on Sept. ![]() #Last year national championship 2021 driver“We congratulate Peyton and his team on becoming NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series champions in what was a season for the record books.” Peyton Sellers, driver of the No. “Peyton has been a mainstay competing on NASCAR’s home tracks for years and is renowned for being an incredible driver and great representative of short track racing,” said Jason McDonell, Advance’s executive vice president of merchandising, marketing and E-commerce. He also accumulated 29 top-five results, including five runner-up finishes. Sellers tallied 21 wins (12 at Dominion Raceway and nine at South Boston Speedway) in 37 starts this season, finishing in the top 10 in all but two of those races. We were winning some races and doing pretty well at both places, one thing led to another and we were competing for two track titles.” We still had allegiance to Dominion because they gave us a place to race last year. “And then this year when South Boston opened up, obviously it’s our home track and we wanted to go back there. We were able to win the track title there. ![]() “Dominion Raceway was a track we had raced at and they said we’re still going to try to do it. “When we sat down at the beginning of last year, we were wanting to race like everybody, and when COVID set in, we didn’t have a place to race because South Boston pulled the plug pretty early in the year,” said Sellers. He was able to bank wins early in the season and could race more frequently close to home as the schedules didn’t conflict at South Boston and Dominion. Sellers credits the newfound dual-track loyalty to putting him in the hunt for the national championship by July this season. It marked his sixth South Boston track championship and the second for him at Dominion, where he raced last season while South Boston was shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to winning the Weekly Series national championship, Sellers also won the Southeast Region and Virginia state titles, as well as the track championships at South Boston Speedway and Dominion Raceway. The Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series is really the bedrock of NASCAR, and having a champion like Peyton continue to dedicate himself to competing at such a high level week-to-week is what makes this racing special.” Peyton Sellers pictured during the NASCAR Advanced Auto Parts Weekly Series at Dominion Raceway on Sept. “It is just amazing to see what he’s done this year, also adding in two track championships, the Virginia state championship, and the Southeast Region championship. “Congratulations to Peyton on his second NASCAR national championship,” said NASCAR President Steve Phelps. Sellers won his first Weekly Series championship in 2005 at age 21, then the youngest champion in the history of the series. It was 16 years in the making for the driver out of Danville, Virginia, as this week Peyton Sellers was named the Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national champion for the second time in his career. ![]()
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