Peyton Sellers

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Name = Peyton Sellers


Birthdate = birth date and age|1983|10|20
Birthplace = flagicon|USA Danville, Virginia
Busch_Car_Team = #31 - Marsh Racing | First_Busch_Race = 2006 New England 200 (Loudon)
Awards = 2005 NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series (NDWS) National Champion

2005 NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series Division I Champion

2005 South Boston Speedway Track Champion
Updated_On = February 3, 2007

Peyton Sellers (born October 20, 1983 in Danville, Virginia) is an American race car driver, competing in the NASCAR Camping World East Series. He won the 2005 national championship of NASCAR's Weekly Racing Series.Schaefer, Paul. "Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing". Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA, 2006. ISBN 0-9789261-0-2. pp. 155-161.] He is currently driving the #44 Chevrolet for Andy Santerre Motorsports.

Racing career

Sellers started his racing career in karting, beginning at age 7. By age 13, Sellers was driving open wheel sprint cars, collecting 11 feature wins in his first 20 races. After competing for several years in sprints, Sellers decided to try his hand in stock car racing on asphalt ovals. He ran the 2001 season in the Limited Sportsman division at Orange County Speedway in Rougemont, North Carolina. He competed at South Boston Speedway in Virginia as a rookie in 2002, winning Rookie of the Year honors in the Late Model Stock Car division.

In 2005, Sellers won 14 of his 16 starts at South Boston, winning the Dodge Weekly Series national championship.

In 2006 Sellers raced in the NASCAR West Division, where he drove the #16 NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet, his only win coming at Douglas County Speedway on July 1, 2006. He was a member of the Richard Childress Racing driver development program during that season. Sellers also competed in his first NASCAR Busch Series race at New Hampshire International Speedway, driving the #31 Chevrolet for Marsh Racing.

Sellers headed back east for the 2007 season and raced out of his home shop with brother, HC Sellers, as crew chief. Sellers finished 3rd overall in the NASCAR Busch East Series. [http://eastseries.com/point2007.html EastSeries.com 2007 Points Standings ] ] He would go on to finish 2nd in the Toyota All-Star Showdown. [http://eastseries.com/results/2007/showdown.html NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown Race Results ] ]

In 2008 Sellers signed on with Andy Santerre Motorsports in the #44 Chevrolet. Sellers took the pole and the win at at the season open at Greenville-Pickens Speedway, in Greenville, SC. The victory was short lived due to a rules infraction. Sellers was striped of his win and given a 30th place finish.Newton, David. "Should postrace disqualification set precedence for NASCAR's top series?". ESPN.com, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 24 April 2008.] Sellers is currently 14th in points with 9 races left in the series.

References

External links

* [http://www.peytonsellers.com.html/ Official Website]
* [http://eastseries.com/point.html/ 2008 Points Standings]
* [http://eastseries.com/drivers/sellersp.html/ East Series Driver Card]
* [http://www.racingwest.com/drivers/info.php/1052/index.html/ West Series Driver Card]
* [http://www.racing-reference.info/driver?id=sellepe01 Stats at Racing-Reference.info]