2021-10-03 Peyton Sellers PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
RESOLUTION# 2021-10-03
HONORING PEYTON SELLERS
The Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors ("Board") adopted the following Resolution at its
Business Meeting on October 19, 2021:
WHEREAS,local native,Peyton Sellers ("Sellers"),was crowned the 2021 NASCAR Weekly
Series National Champion in September 2021; and
WHEREAS, Sellers won his first Weekly Series championship in 2005 at age twenty-one (21),
then the youngest champion in the history of the series; and
WHEREAS,in addition to winning the Weekly Series National Championship, Sellers also won
the Southeast Region and Virginia State Titles, as well as the track championships at South Boston
Speedway and Dominion Raceway, which marked his sixth South Boston track championship and the
second for him at Dominion, where he raced last season, while South Boston was shuttered due to the
COVID-19 Pandemic; and
WHEREAS, Sellers tallied twenty-one (21) wins (twelve (12) at Dominion Raceway and nine
(9) at South Boston Speedway) in thirty-seven (37) starts this season, finishing in the top ten (10) in all
but two (2) of those races; and
WHEREAS, Sellers also accumulated twenty-nine (29) top-five (5) results, including five (5)
runner-up finishes.; and
WHEREAS, Sellers is renowned for being an incredible driver and a great representative of
short track racing; and
THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Board expresses its congratulations and
admiration to Sellers and his team on becoming the NASCAR Weekly Series National Champions.
Adopted this 19th day of October, 2021.
Ro ert("Bob") W. Warren, Chairman
Pittsylvania County and of Supervisors
Davi . Smitherm .n, Clerk
- Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors