SOUTH BOSTON, Va. — Two-time NASCAR national champion Peyton Sellers captured a record-tying seventh South Boston Speedway NASCAR Late Model Stock Car Division championship with a third-place finish Saturday night in the 150-lap Sentara Health Late Model Stock Car Division race that headlined the Halifax County Farm Bureau Championship Night event at South Boston.
Sellers, who last won the South Boston title in 2021, tied former seven-time champion David Blankenship, who won his record-setting seventh and last South Boston title in 1998.
“It’s been a long time coming finishing second the last two years,” Sellers remarked. “To tie David Blankenship is very, very special in my heart and my brother, H.C.’s heart. We grew up watching him and thinking a lot of him. For us to do this and represent Halifax County and South Boston Speedway as champions means a lot to me.”
While Sellers won the championship, last year’s South Boston champion, Carter Langley, became the seventh winner of the season at South Boston Speedway by winning the 150-lap Sentara Health Late Model Stock Car Division race and claiming the $5,000 winner’s prize.
The win was Langley’s first win of the season at South Boston and his eighth win of the season.
Langley won the 2023 edition of this event to claim the division championship and successfully defended his race win from last season.
“It’s nice to end the South Boston Speedway season the same way I did last year, other than the championship,” Langley said. “I think the car might have been a little better than it was last year.”
Langley was concerned when Mike Looney took the lead from him on the 59th circuit and pulled away while leading until the mandated break at lap 100. He wrestled the lead from Looney on the restart that followed the break at lap 100 and pulled away to a 2.216-second win over Looney, a resident of Catawba, Virginia.
“I got really aero tight behind him,” Langley explained. “We made a big change at the break, and the car definitely took off after that.”
Sellers finished third with NASCAR Xfinity Series competitor Jeb Burton finishing fourth. Burton competed in an Xfinity Series race at Darlington, South Carolina Saturday afternoon and arrived at South Boston in time to compete in the race. Jacob Borst rounded out the top five finishers. Pole winner Blake Stallings finished sixth.
The race was a competitive affair with six lead changes among four drivers with Langley leading three times for a total of 97 laps. Three caution periods slowed the race.
Jason Myers successfully defended his South Boston Speedway Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division championship Saturday night with a flag-to-flag win in the 50-lap race that was part of the Halifax County Farm Bureau Championship Night event.
A new champion carved his name into the South Boston Speedway record books Saturday night as B.J. Reaves emerged with the 2024 Southside Disposal Pure Stock Division championship.
Sixteen-year-old Jordaine Penick added another milestone in South Boston’s history book Saturday night with her fifth-place finish in the division’s 20-lap race earning her the Virginia State Police HEAT Hornets Division championship.