Peyton Sellers

Peyton Sellers (born October 20, 1983) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He won the 2005 national championship of NASCAR's Weekly Racing Series.[1]

Peyton Sellers
Sellers in 2009
Born (1983-10-20) October 20, 1983
Danville, Virginia
Achievements2005 NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series National Champion
2005 NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series Division I Champion
2005, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 South Boston Speedway Track Champion
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
28 races run over 4 years
2015 position27th
Best finish27th (2015)
First race2006 New England 200 (Loudon)
Last race2015 Zippo 200 at The Glen (Watkins Glen)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
8 races run over 6 years
2014 position67th
Best finish59th (2009)
First race2007 Silverado 350K (Texas)
Last race2014 Kroger 200 (Martinsville)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
Statistics current as of August 8, 2015.

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.[1] 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.[1]

In 2006 Sellers raced in the NASCAR West Division, where he drove the No. 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 No. 31 Chevrolet for Marsh Racing.

Seller's 2009 No. 77 Nationwide car (orange)

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.[2] He would go on to finish 2nd in the Toyota All-Star Showdown.[3]

In 2008, Sellers signed on with Andy Santerre Motorsports in the No. 44 Chevrolet. Sellers took the pole and the win at the season opener at Greenville-Pickens Speedway, in Greenville, SC. The victory was short lived due to a rules infraction. Sellers was stripped of his win and given a 30th-place finish.[4] At Iowa, in the closing laps, Sellers took second from Austin Dillon before a caution but he was placed back into fourth place on the restart (the position he was in on the restart after the previous yellow) because the NASCAR officials determined that a full lap had not been run since Sellers was in fourth and he never had the chance to challenge Brian Ickler for the lead. In the season finale, at Stafford Sellers finally win his first race. He finished the season 8th overall points standings, with a series high 3 poles. Peyton again came close to taking the win at the Toyota All-Star Showdown, with Jig-A-Loo as his sponsor, when a last lap spin out, while in the lead, made him finish 14th. The announcement came in December 2008 that Sellers would run a limited Nationwide Series schedule in 2009 with Cardinal Motorsports. Sellers is part owner of Cardinal motorsports, alongside Will Spencer of JKS Motorsports and Ed Berrier. In January Cardinal Motorsports announced a ten race NASCAR Nationwide sponsorship with SFP.

Sellers was suspended from NASCAR competition on October 25, 2011, as a result of an altercation following a race at South Boston Speedway until March 1, 2012.[5]

For 2015, Sellers planned to race in the NASCAR Xfinity Series full-time, taking over the No. 97 for Obaika Racing after Josh Reaume was released from the team after three race weekends, but was released from the team after Watkins Glen due to mediocre results.

After leaving NASCAR competition as a driver, Sellers he co-owned NASCAR K&N Pro Series East team Hunt-Sellers Racing with former KNPSE competitor Sam Hunt.[6] However the partnership ended in 2018. Sam Hunt renamed his team to Sam Hunt Racing and moved to Xfinity Series. Sellers' team (Sellers Racing Inc.) still fields cars in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series.

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
NASCAR Xfinity Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 NXSC Pts Ref
2006 Marsh Racing 31 Chevy DAY CAL MXC LVS ATL BRI TEX NSH PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW DAY CHI NHA
37		 MAR GTY IRP GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM
33		 TEX PHO HOM 109th 116 [7]
2009 Cardinal Motorsports 77 Chevy DAY CAL LVS BRI TEX
26		 NSH PHO TAL RCH
19		 DAR CLT
31		 DOV
31		 NSH KEN MLW
15		 NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP
26		 IOW
DNQ		 GLN
DNQ		 MCH BRI
31		 CGV ATL
28		 RCH DOV KAN
33		 CAL CLT
DNQ		 MEM TEX PHO HOM 58th 747 [8]
2010 Sellers Racing Inc. 25 Chevy DAY CAL LVS BRI NSH PHO TEX TAL RCH DAR DOV CLT NSH KEN ROA NHA
DNQ		 DAY CHI GTY IRP IOW GLN MCH BRI CGV ATL RCH DOV KAN CAL CLT 147th 3 [9]
R3 Motorsports 23 Chevy GTY
20		 TEX PHO HOM
2015 Obaika Racing 97 Chevy DAY ATL LVS PHO
36		 CAL
29		 TEX
30		 BRI
32		 RCH
32		 TAL
18		 IOW
28		 CLT
28		 DOV
25		 MCH
24		 CHI
27		 DAY
16		 KEN
31		 NHA
26		 IND
35		 IOW GLN
34		 MOH BRI ROA DAR RCH CHI KEN DOV CLT KAN TEX PHO HOM 27th 238 [10]

Camping World Truck Series
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 NCWTC Pts Ref
2007 Jeff Milburn Racing 76 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR KAN CLT MFD DOV TEX MCH MLW MEM KEN IRP NSH BRI GTW NHA LVS TAL MAR ATL TEX
31		 PHO HOM 100th 70 [11]
2009 DGM Racing 72 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR KAN CLT DOV TEX MCH MLW
32		 MEM KEN IRP NSH BRI CHI IOW GTW NHA LVS 76th 137 [12]
Premier Racing 17 Toyota MAR
31		 TAL TEX PHO HOM
2010 Turn One Racing 64 Chevy DAY ATL MAR NSH KAN DOV CLT TEX MCH IOW GTY IRP POC NSH DAR BRI CHI KEN NHA
21		 LVS MAR TAL TEX PHO HOM 98th 100 [13]
2011 DAY PHO DAR MAR NSH DOV CLT KAN TEX KEN IOW NSH IRP POC
25		 MCH
28		 BRI ATL CHI NHA KEN LVS TAL MAR TEX HOM 59th 35 [14]
2012 60 DAY MAR CAR KAN CLT DOV TEX KEN IOW CHI POC MCH BRI ATL IOW KEN LVS TAL MAR
20		 TEX PHO HOM 65th 26 [15]
2014 Win-Tron Racing 35 Toyota DAY MAR KAN CLT DOV TEX GTW KEN IOW ELD POC MCH BRI MSP CHI NHA LVS TAL MAR
17		 TEX PHO HOM 67th 27 [16]

K&N Pro Series East
NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NKNPSEC Pts Ref
2006 Marsh Racing 31 Chevy GRE
12		 STA HOL TMP ERI NHA
33		 ADI WFD NHA
7		 DOV
DNQ		 LRP 34th 358 [17]
2007 Sellers Racing Inc. 83 Chevy GRE
4		 ELK
5		 IOW
21		 SBO
2*		 STA
14		 NHA
9		 TMP
12		 NSH
16		 ADI
4		 MFD
7		 NHA
4		 DOV
9		 3rd 1862 [18]
Ford LRP
8
2008 Andy Santerre Motorsports 44 Chevy GRE
30		 IOW
11		 SBO
3		 GLN
18		 NHA
29		 TMP
18		 NSH
2*		 ADI
9*		 LRP
3		 MFD
3		 NHA
20		 DOV
18		 STA
1		 8th 1732 [19]
2013 Hattori Racing Enterprises 01 Toyota BRI GRE PEN RCH BGS IOW LGY COL IOW VIR
7		 GRE NHA DOV RAL 53rd 37 [20]
2015 DRIVE Technology 18 Toyota NSM GRE
10		 BRI IOW BGS LGY COL NHA IOW GLN MOT VIR RCH DOV
18		 38th 60 [21]
2017 Hunt-Sellers Racing 18 Toyota NSM GRE BRI SBO
9		 SBO
8		 MEM BLN TMP NHA IOW GLN LGY NJM DOV 27th 71 [22]

Autozone West Series
NASCAR Autozone West Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NAWC Pts Ref
2006 Bill McAnally Racing 16 Chevy PHO
5		 PHO
2		 S99
15		 IRW
23		 SON
3		 DCS
1*		 IRW
16		 EVG
5		 S99
3		 CAL
21		 CTS
16		 AMP
20		 5th 1675 [23]

* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points

ARCA Re/Max Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Re/Max Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ARSC Pts Ref
2004 Sellers Racing Inc. 04 Pontiac DAY NSH SLM KEN TOL CLT KAN POC MCH SBO
25		 BLN KEN GTW POC LER NSH ISF TOL DSF CHI SLM TAL 155th 105 [24]
2009 Sellers Racing Inc. 47 Chevy DAY
36		 SLM CAR TAL KEN TOL POC MCH MFD IOW KEN BLN POC ISF CHI TOL DSF NJE SLM KAN
13		 CAR 102nd 215 [25]

Rolex Sports Car Series

(key) Bold – Pole Position. (Overall Finish/Class Finish).

Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series DP results
Year Team No. Chassis 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pos Pts Ref
2005 Synergy Racing 86 BMW-Picchio DAY
(60/29)		 HOM FON LS CMT WGL DAY ALA WGL MOH PHO WGL VIR MXC 147th 2 [26]

24 Hours of Daytona

(key)

24 Hours of Daytona results
Year Class No Team Car Co-drivers Laps Position Class Pos.
2005 DP 86 Synergy Racing BMW-Picchio Steve Marshall
Jason Workman
Archie Urciuoli		 134 60 DNF 29 DNF

References
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  2. EastSeries.com 2007 Points Standings Archived September 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown Race Results Archived July 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Newton, David. Should postrace disqualification set precedence for NASCAR's top series?. ESPN.com, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, April 24, 2008.
  5. Sordelett, Damien (October 25, 2011). "NASCAR hands down fines, suspensions from SoBo post-race incidents". Danville Register. Danville, VA. Archived from the original on January 24, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
  6. Soquet, William (May 15, 2018). "K&N EAST: Colin Garrett's Cinderella run ends halfway through at South Boston". LASTCAR. Blogger. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
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