Peyton Sellers, Austin Dillon slated to challenge SoBo’s Late Model

competitors Saturday night in Earth Day 150

 

 

 

SOUTH BOSTON, VA. — The talent-filled Late Model Stock Car Division will

become even more competitive Saturday night when the green flag waves for

the start of the Earth Day 150 NASCAR Whelen All American Series race

program.

 

 

 

NASCAR Camping World Series competitors Peyton Sellers and Austin Dillon are

scheduled to be in the field for the 150-lap Barkhouser Late Model Stock Car

Division race, which will be the featured attraction of the four-race

program on April 26. The first race of the evening will get the green flag

at 7 p.m.

 

 

 

Sellers, the 2005 NASCAR Weekly Series national champion and winner of the

track title at America’s Hometown Track that same year, along with Dillon,

the grandson of successful NASCAR car owner Richard Childress, should add

even more spice to a field of Late Model Stock Cars that waged quite a

battle in season-opening action on March 22. In that event, the lead changed

hands several times in the closing 25 laps before Justin Johnson of Roxboro,

N.C. emerged with a victory over Philip Morris of Ruckersville, Va.

 

 

 

Sellers will be motoring the No. 90, Sandy Stigall-owned machine Saturday

night. It’s a ride he plans to run on select nights at America’s Hometown

Track this season when he isn’t driving the No. 44 Casella Waste Systems

Chevrolet in the Camping World Series in 2008.

 

 

 

“Were looking forward to it,” the 24-year-old Sellers said recently when

asked about his appearances at South Boston Speedway in 2008. “It’s always

good to race at home and South Boston is home for us.”

 

 

 

Dillon turns 18-years-old this week and is coming off a Camping World Series

victory last weekend at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in South Carolina. In

that race, he drove a black Chevrolet bearing the No. 3 of former NASCAR

great Dale Earnhardt. Childress had maintained the rights to the number and

decided Dillon would be the first to compete with the No. 3 in a NASCAR

traveling series following Earnhardt’s tragic death at Daytona several years

ago.

 

 

 

Sellers claimed Rookie of the Year honors in the East Series of NASCAR Grand

National Division racing in 2006, while securing one victory. Last year,

Sellers finished third in the division’s points chase, while recording five

top-five finishes and 10 runs in the top 10 during the campaign. Sellers

capped off his successful 2007 season with a runner-up finish in the Toyota

All-Star Showdown in California.

 

 

 

Former NASCAR Grand National champion Randy Lajoie will also be on hand

Saturday at South Boston Speedway as a special guest for the event.

 

 

 

Other racing action slated Saturday night at the four-tenths mile asphalt

oval include a pair of 50-lap races for the drivers in the Limited Sportsman

Division and also an event for the Budweiser Pure Stock Division

competitors.

 

 

 

Pit gates will open Saturday at 1 p.m. with practice for all divisions

beginning at 2:15 p.m. and continuing through 3:45 p.m. Grandstand gates

will open at 5 p.m. and qualifying time trials will get cranked up at 5:15

p.m.

 

 

 

Tickets are priced at $10 for adults. Youth, ages 7-12, will be admitted for

$5 and children, ages 6 and under, will be admitted free. All youth must be

accompanied by a paying adult to receive discounted admission.

 

 

 

For more information, visit the speedway’s website at

www.southbostonspeedway.com or phone the track at (434) 572-4947 or toll

free at 1-877-440-1540.