Championship Recap: Sellers Takes Late Model Win, Earns Record Eighth South Boston Speedway Track Championship

Peregoy, Reaves, DeCarlo Also Take Division Titles Sunday Night

By Joe Chandler

Director, Public Relations

South Boston Speedway

SOUTH BOSTON, VA (September 7, 2025) – In a winner-take-all race at South Boston Speedway, Peyton Sellers won the 100-lap Sentara Health Late Model Stock Car Division race that headlined Sunday’s Halifax County Farm Bureau Championship Night event and the track championship in one of the closest championship points battles in the track’s history.

In winning the 2025 South Boston Speedway Sentara Health Late Model Stock Car Division championship Sellers eclipsed the previous record of seven track championships held by David Blankenship of Moseley, Virginia who won his seventh division title in 1998.

“I still don’t feel I deserve to be in the same sentence with Blankenship and those guys that have done it,” Sellers remarked. “It’s been a long time coming. We’ve put a lot of effort into this track for a lot of years. We’ve tried to give it all we had every time.”

Sellers will receive $20,000 for winning the championship. The payout is part of over $75,000 in season-end bonuses that will be awarded to competitors at South Boston Speedway this season through a lucrative Championship Loyalty Bonus Program sponsored by Hitachi Energy and EMPOWER Broadband.

The unofficial points tally had Sellers finishing two points ahead of Trevor Ward of Winston-Salem, North Carolina who finished second to Sellers in the caution-free 100-lap race. Sellers and Ward entered the season’s final points race deadlocked at the top of the Sentara Health Late Model Stock Car Division point standings with Landon Pembelton of Amelia, Virginia sitting in third place, eight points back.

Pembelton opted to start at the rear of the field hoping he could rally through the field, win the race, earn bonus points toward the championship and top Sellers and Ward in the title chase. He finished fifth in the race, and unofficially finished third in the point standings.

Sellers started on the pole and led all 100 laps of the race. Ward stayed close on Sellers’ heels for most of the first half of the race, but Sellers increased his lead through the last 50 laps, building a lead of a quarter of a lap heading into the final 25 circuits.

Andrew Grady of Younsgville, North Carolina finished third behind Sellers and Ward, with Blake Stallings of Danville, Virginia finishing fourth ahead of Pembelton.

Persistent rain forced track officials to reschedule the event from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon, and more rain Sunday pushed the start of the night’s racing action into Sunday night. Despite the weather and constantly changing track conditions Sellers and his team hit the right setup with his car.

“I think the rain played into our hand a little bit,” Sellers said. “H.C. (his brother and crew chief H.C. Sellers) has the ability to adapt on short notice and can come up with things quicker. This track changes so much with the weather and I think it played right into our hands tonight.”

The weather worked to Ward’s detriment.

“I think the weather threw us a curveball,” Ward said after finishing 3.6 seconds behind Sellers in Sunday night’s race. “At the end of the day we had two teams going into this deal and one capitalized on it and another one didn’t. It’s been a hard-fought battle all year. I think the race fans got what they were looking for.”

Garretson wins Budweiser Limited Sportsman Race; Zach Peregoy Wins Limited Sportsman Division Title

Zach Peregoy of Clarksville, Virginia won the 2025 Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division championship with an eighth-place finish in the 50-lap Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division race that was part of Sunday night’s Halifax County Farm Bureau Championship Night event.

The 2025 Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division championship is Peregoy’s first career division title. Peregoy will receive a $3,000 prize as part of over $75,000 in season-end bonuses that will be awarded to competitors at South Boston Speedway this season through a lucrative Championship Loyalty Bonus Program sponsored by Hitachi Energy and EMPOWER Broadband.

He entered the race with an 18-point lead over 14-year-old Tristan Brunelli of Powhatan, Virginia.

The win in the 50-lap race was the first of the season for the 21-year-old Centerville, Arkansas resident. Garretson led the entire race, finishing 2.1 seconds ahead of runner-up Bob Davis of Thaxton, Virginia. Sunday’s win made him the tenth different winner in the division this season.

Eddie Slagle of Powhatan, Virginia finished third, Brunelli finished fourth and Jared Dawson of Nathalie, Virginia completed the top five finishers.

B.J. Reaves Wins Second Southside Disposal Pure Stock Division Title; Dillon Davis Wins Season’s Final Points Race

B.J. Reaves of South Boston, Virginia won his second straight Southside Disposal Pure Stock Division championship while Dillon Davis of Nathalie, Virginia won the 25-lap race that wrapped up the points season for the Southside Disposal Pure Stock Division. Davis’ win was his second victory of the season.

Reaves entered Saturday night’s race with a 25-point lead over Davis and needed only to start the 25-lap race to clinch the division title and a $1,000 payout as part of over $75,000 in season-end bonuses that will be awarded to competitors at South Boston Speedway this season through a lucrative Championship Loyalty Bonus Program sponsored by Hitachi Energy and EMPOWER Broadband.

Pole winner Andrew Turner of Sutherlin, Virginia finished three car lengths behind Davis with Scott Phillips of Halifax, Virginia finishing third. B.J. Reaves finished fourth, with his brother, Zach Reaves of Danville, Virginia, rounding out the top five finishers.

DeCarlo Takes Dollar General Hornets Division Title; Landon Milam Wins 20-Lap Race

Jason DeCarlo of Chase City, Virginia finished second in Sunday night’s 20-lap Dollar General Hornets Division race and earned his second career Dollar General Hornets Division championship.

DeCarlo will receive a $500 award as part of over $75,000 in season-end bonuses that will be awarded to competitors at South Boston Speedway this season through a lucrative Championship Loyalty Bonus Program sponsored by Hitachi Energy and EMPOWER Broadband.

DeCarlo entered the season’s final points race with a 14-point cushion over second-place driver Landon Milam of Keeling, Virginia. Milam won the race, capturing a division-high sixth win and finishing 3.622 seconds ahead of DeCarlo.

Max Sangillo of Farmville, Virginia, Dustin Davis of Nathalie, Virginia and Andrea Ruotolo of South Boston, Virginia rounded out the top five finishers.

Unofficial Results

Sentara Health Late Model Stock Car Feature

Finish No. Competitor

1 26 Sellers, Peyton

2 77W Ward, Trevor

3 1 Grady, Andrew

4 77S Stallings, Blake

5 0 Pembelton, Landon

6 04 Bassett, Ronnie Jr

7 25 Borst, Jacob

8 00C Burrow, Chase

9 00K Barnes, Kyle

10 3 Williams, Trey

11 50 Pittman, Raymond

12 19 Cann, Jessica

13 51 Layne, Toby

Budweiser Limited Sportsman Feature

1 99 Garretson, Tyler

2 19 Davis, Bob

3 5 Slagle, Eddie

4 18B Brunelli, Tristan

5 01 Dawson, Jared

6 8 Dawson, Drew

7 88D Dawson, Justin

8 12 Peregoy, Zachary

9 88R Rundstrom, Brian

DNS 2 Daniel, Trace III

Southside Disposal Pure Stock Feature

1 63 Davis, Dillon

2 76 Turner, Andrew

3 1 Phillips, Scott

4 11 Reaves, Barry

5 77 Reaves, Zach

6 88 Johnson, Jarrett

7 29 Pool, Colby

8 10 Mayo, Anna

DNS 12 Hemenway, Jay

Dollar General Hornets Feature

1 83 Milam, Landon

2 54 Decarlo, Jason

3 33 Sangillo, Christian

4 51 Davis, Dustin

5 12 Ruotolo, Andrea

6 29 Moss, Cameron

7 07 Penick, Jordaine

DNS 42B Byrd, Daniel

Next Event - CARS Tour Returns To South Boston Speedway Saturday, Sept. 13

Racing returns to South Boston Speedway on Saturday night, September 13 with the zMAX CARS Tour AutosByNelson.Com Race Night.

The stars and cars of the zMAX CARS Tour Late Model Stock Car Tour will be featured in a 125-lap race and the drivers of the zMAX CARS Tour Pro Late Model Tour will battle it out in a 100-lap race.

Between the two races, a group of professional drifting drivers will stage a drifting exhibition, showing fans some of the excitement and thrills they will see when South Boston Speedway holds SoBo Drifts on Saturday afternoon, October 4.

Advance adult tickets for the zMAX CARS Tour AutosByNelson.com Race Night event are priced at $20. Tickets at the gate on race day will be $25 each. Suite tickets are available for $45 each. Seniors ages 65 and older, military, healthcare workers, and students (with ID) can purchase tickets for $20 each at the gate only on the day of the event.

The tentative event schedule has the garage opening at 11 a.m. Practice will run from 12:25 p.m. until 2 p.m. Frontstretch grandstand gates will open at 12:30 p.m. Turn 4 and backstretch gates are set to open at 4:30 p.m. Single car qualifying will start at 4:40 p.m. A driver autograph session is set from 5:45 p.m. until 6:15 p.m. Pre-race ceremonies will start at 6:30 p.m. and the first race will start at 7 p.m.

The latest news and updates about the September 13 zMAX CARS Tour AutosByNelson.Com Race Night event and all South Boston Speedway events can be found on the speedway’s website, www.southbostonspeedway.com, by calling the speedway office at 434-572-4947 or toll free at 1-877-440-1540 during regular business hours, and through the track’s social media channels.