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RACE RECAP: 2022 Race No. 130 – September 24, 2022 ValleyStar Credit Union 300 – Martinsville Speedway
MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- Peyton Sellers won Saturday’s ValleyStar Credit Union 300 NASCAR Late Model Stock race at Martinsville Speedway. The win ended 14 years of frustration for the driver who has won virtually everything else in Late Model Stock racing.
Sellers started seventh in the 40-car field and was patient in the first half of the 200-lap race while pole sitter Bobby McCarty and 2016 race winner Mike Looney paced the field. With laps winding down Sellers got past McCarty and closed in on Looney for the top spot.
On the restart for the final stage break – lap 175 – Sellers got ahead of Looney and started to pull to an advantage. A caution on lap 191 set up a final short run to the finish and Sellers was again able to get the advantage. But a second caution reset the field for a green-while-checkered overtime finish.
Sellers was not to be denied and again got the advantage with Carson Kvapil sneaking past Looney to second. Kvapil was able to get close but could not get past the two-time NASCAR National Champion as the checkered flew.
Sellers earned the coveted Grandfather Clock trophy, the $32,000 race winning money, plus the $7,000 Virginia Triple Crown bonus. Kvapil was impressive with a 23rd to second-place finish with Jacob Heafner going for 24th to third.
Photo: NASCAR
Submitted By: Steve Post
