Danville’s Peyton Sellers embarks on record-tying seventh title as South Boston Speedway opens new season | Auto Racing

If Sellers can gain the 2022 South Boston Speedway NASCAR Advance Vehicle Components Weekly Collection Late Product Inventory Motor vehicle Division title he will tie David Blankenship, of Mosely, for the most occupation South Boston Speedway NASCAR observe championships with seven championships.

The Danville resident states it would be an honor to tie Blankenship’s record, but his immediate aim is on successful races.

“I’m just centered on working perfectly and winning races,” Sellers pointed out, “but to be up there with David Blankenship would be a massive feather in my cap because in my eyes I will under no circumstances be the driver he is. He was a person I grew up viewing. I was like ‘Man, that male is clean as silk.”

“We’ve just been able to do this for a very long time and put collectively some definitely fantastic effects,” Sellers ongoing. “Myself, H.C. [Sellers’ brother and crew chief H.C. Sellers] and a large amount of the guys at Sellers Racing have place in a great deal of times here at this race keep track of. We’re just likely to give it all we’ve got and see what happens.”

Sellers enters the 2022 time as the defending NASCAR Progress Car Sections Weekly Collection countrywide winner, the defending Virginia state champion and defending South Boston Speedway champion. He has gained the last 4 South Boston Speedway NASCAR observe championships.

Winning 9 of 17 starts, putting up a dozen prime-5 finishes and foremost the most laps last season at South Boston Speedway provides Sellers confidence moving into the 2022 time, but he isn’t taking just about anything for granted.

“There are constantly some youthful guns coming in that give us a in shape year-in and 12 months-out and there is constantly a new challenge every calendar year,” Sellers reported. “We don’t just take just about anything for granted. We do the job just as challenging right now as we did three a long time in the past, if not harder for the reason that we place more stress on ourselves to arrive back again even more powerful the next yr.”

It would have been pretty quick to sit idle all wintertime and just form of fluff and buff our vehicles and occur back again this year and consider we sort of had the bull by the horns. We bought one of our automobiles, developed a new vehicle, and we’re trying some unique items attempting to get to in which we want to be.

“Last year we held the identical two automobiles we experienced and just designed our notebook and labored to make them greater,” he ongoing. “This calendar year we felt like there was some far better issues out there that we could do to make our cars and trucks a very little far better. We have the very same motor mixture, the similar stuff for the most aspect, and are just seeking to high-quality-tune it a minor bit far better. H.C. does not slumber a lot at night for imagining about these cars and trucks. We’re continually striving to get much better.”

Saturday afternoon’s Danville Toyota 2022 time-opening racing plan will be headlined by twin 65-lap races for the NASCAR Progress Automobile Pieces Weekly Series Late Model Stock Vehicle Division. Sellers would like nothing extra than to sweep Saturday’s Late Product Stock Auto Division twinbill as his sponsor, Danville Toyota, is sponsoring South Boston Speedway’s season-opening NASCAR racing occasion.

“It would be extremely distinctive to be in victory lane for the Danville Toyota race,” said Sellers. “Danville Toyota has been with us a lengthy time and there is nothing at all better than successful when they sponsor the race. They have been a very good supporter of South Boston Speedway as very well. I truly feel extremely lucky to have them as a sponsor. It would be terrific to get a gain.”

In addition to the twin 65-lap races for the NASCAR Advance Auto Components Weekly Series Late Product Stock Vehicle Division competition, Saturday afternoon’s 5-race card involves a 65-lap race for the Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division, a 30-lap race for the Southside Disposal Pure Stock Division and a 15-lap race for the Hornets Division.

Grandstand gates will open up at 12:30 p.m. Qualifying commences at 1 p.m. and the to start with race of the working day will get the eco-friendly flag at 2 p.m.

Advance grownup normal admission tickets for the function are priced at $10 each and every as well as a $1.50 processing rate and may well be ordered online on South Boston Speedway’s web-site, www.southbostonspeedway.com, by way of Friday night.

Grownup standard admission tickets online and at the gate on race working day are priced at $15 each individual. Kids ages 12 and younger will be admitted free of charge when accompanied by a paying adult.