SRX Guest Peyton Sellers Wants To Be ‘The Doug Coby Of South Boston’ Saturday

This Saturday, June 25, is one of the biggest races of Peyton Sellers‘ trophy-filled racing career.

The two-time (2005, 2021) NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national champion will be the local ringer for the SRX race at South Boston Speedway, one of two places he won a track championship at last year (Dominion Raceway is the other). He follows in the footsteps of other local ringers Doug Coby and Bubba Pollard, who won and finished second, respectively, while stealing the show in the SRX races at their home tracks.

While Sellers has been a mainstay in the Virginia late model scene the past several years, he tried his hand at climbing the NASCAR ladder after his first national title. He had a developmental deal with Richard Childress Racing that fell apart before making a series of NASCAR Xfinity and Camping World Truck series starts. Along the way, he won races in what is now the ARCA Menards Series East and West when those fields had much higher car counts.

Now, he runs the family business during the week and races locally on weekend. But Sellers finally has a chance to shine on network TV this Saturday at a track where he likely has more laps than the rest of the field combined.

Frontstretch caught up with Sellers to discuss his thoughts going into the race, how South Boston surprised him, his previous RCR deal and how he’ll stack up against the superstars. 

Michael Massie, Frontstretch: Racing’s the side job, right? What do you do full-time?

Peyton Sellers: It is. I’ve been very fortunate. I’ve been able to race for many years. About four years ago, my dad had some heart surgery, and it was kind of time for me to say, ‘Alright, do I want the family business to keep going, or do I want to keep chasing the dream of trying to drive racecars.’

I’ve been able to do both. HC, my brother, is my crew chief. He maintains the cars and allows me to jump in there. And I’m basically hand-in-hand with my dad in our construction business. We do site grading, land clearing, heavy equipment. Dozers, pans, dump trucks and that sort of thing. So we move a lot of dirt, we do underground utilities, things like that. And that’s what I do all week from 6:30 in the morning to whenever I get home at night usually. Then I go racing on the weekend. So I get to chase my dream of driving racecars on the weekends, but we also have to be able to work during the week to help support the habit.

Massie: What’s that schedule like? You always hear…