DANVILLE, VA :: Late Model Stock Car veteran Peyton Sellers is once again a champion at South Boston Speedway.  He clinched the championship on Saturday night with his two top-five finishes.

Sellers scored his other championship in 2005, the same year he clinched the 2005 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series (NWAAS) National Championship.  Sellers was honored to clinch a second championship at his hometown track at South Boston Speedway.

“It’s pretty neat,” Sellers said.  “We’ve had a great opportunity to have a home track like South Boston 30 miles away from home.  I won one championship there in ‘05, then ran some K&N, Nationwide and different things.  I haven’t got focused on points and made a championship run like this year.  2012 was the only other year I ran for points and I finished behind my teammate, Matt Bowling.”

This season, Sellers set his sights on scoring as many wins as possible and, when the points fell in to place early in the season, he began mounting his championship bid.

We won twins the first day and never looked back.  After we started off so strong, it’s hard to quit when you’re leading the points. We never lost the points lead and had a great year.”

Sellers is also mounting a charge at the track championship at Motor Mile Speedway with their final race coming up on Saturday night.  In the most recent race there, Sellers had a 30 point advantage entering the race but that advantage was erased and turned in to a four point deficit after he was wiped out in an incident with Mike Looney.  Now, he finds himself chasing two-time defending NWAAS National Champion Lee Pulliam, who is the only driver to win championships both Motor Mile and South Boston in the same year.

“We entered the race with a 30 point lead, got crashed, came out four points behind,” Sellers remarked.  “It’s a big swing in points one night. We’re very optimistic about everything we’ve got going on right now and think we’ll have a better shot at it this week for sure.”

One other championship Sellers is competing for is the Virginia Triple Crown – a three race championship set that consists of the South Boston 200, Hampton Heat 200 and Martinsville DuPont Credit Union (MDCU) 300.  Sellers leads the standings in the Virginia Triple Crown entering the MDCU 300 which will be run on Sunday, October 5th.

While Sellers was celebrating his championship, his teammate, Matt Bowling, swept the two races at South Boston to record his third and fourth wins of the season at South Boston and his fourth and fifth wins of the 2014 season.  His other victory came at Caraway Speedway back in May.

Sellers says he’s not yet made plans for 2014, saying he’ll get through the winter and take it one step at a time.  To date, Sellers has six wins at three different tracks on the 2014 season – Caraway Speedway, Motor Mile and South Boston.