General Discussion » What is really wrong with Dale Jr
Only JR knows. He's always said he does not like the COT car. And I think that is stuck in his head. Eventually he will get it and accept it. ( I HOPE ).
Peyton Sellers to compete in Nationwide for Cardinal Motorsports
By Jared Turner - SceneDaily Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Cardinal Motorsports' Peyton Sellers will attempt to make at least 11 starts in the NASCAR Nationwide Series in 2009.
Nick Laham
Getty Images for NASCAR
Peyton Sellers, who made two NASCAR Nationwide Series starts in 2006 for owner Ted Marsh, will return to the series on a more regular basis in 2009 as he will attempt to make at least 11 starts for the newly formed Cardinal Motorsports.
The 25-year-old Danville, Va., native is serving as a co-owner of the team along with former Nationwide Series regular Ed Berrier and Will Spencer, whose JKS Motorsports showcar company will house Cardinal Motorsports in its Lexington, N.C., headquarters.
H.C. Sellers, Peyton’s older brother, will serve as crew chief, continuing a driver-crew chief pairing that began when Peyton was 7 years old.
Richard Childress Racing crew chief Todd Berrier, Ed Berrier’s cousin, will provide additional oversight to the team, which will field Chevrolets and use motors from Earnhardt-Childress Racing Technologies.
“I’m just thankful to have a job right now when everyone else is looking,” Peyton Sellers said in a phone interview.
Having his brother atop the pit box was a big factor in Sellers’ decision to drive for a new team. The 2005 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national champion says he spoke with more established Nationwide Series teams about bringing in him and his brother as a package deal, but the teams weren’t interested.
“We’ve come too far together to split off right now,” said Sellers, who spent last season driving for Andy Santerre Motorsports in the NASCAR Camping World East Series. “I feel like my parents have spent a lot of their personal money and sacrificed for us for the last 15 years in order to get me and him an opportunity to do something together at somewhere like the Nationwide level.
“If I would have just split up from him right now, it would have been a waste of a lot of things.”
Cardinal Motorsports has a fleet of seven cars, six of which it recently purchased from Richard Childress Racing, which is located just a couple miles down the road.
Sellers will attempt to make his first Nationwide start of 2009 at Texas, where he made his only career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start for owner Jeff Milburn in 2007. Sellers expects a formal announcement about a part-time primary sponsor to come this week.
“I just felt like my best effort was doing our own deal,” he said. “We know where 100 percent of the money’s going. Every ounce of it is being spent on winning races. That’s what I’m interested in right now is going out there and running up front. These other teams might have had bigger, nicer, more impressive stats and shops and everything else, but I felt like that me and H.C. have just been more successful anytime we had part ownership in what we were doing.
“I don’t know why but whenever we stick together tight and are in on it, things just work together better.”
For right now, Sellers is driving an hour-and-a-half one way from Danville to Lexington each weekday.
“I grew up racing,” he said. “That’s what I want to do. I love going to do sponsor events and meeting and greeting people and things like that. That’s part of what I have to do to become a driver, but racing’s what we want to do, and if we can be sitting in a race car six days a week, that’s what I want to do.”
In his two Nationwide starts, which came at New Hampshire and Memphis, Sellers finished 37th and 33rd, respectively. In addition to the upcoming Nationwide slate, Sellers plans to make a few starts in the Automobile Racing Club of America Re/Max and Camping World East series.
Sellers says plans call for him to run a partial schedule for Cardinal Motorsports in 2009 and 2010 unless he has an opportunity to move to a more established team. If that happens, plans call for Cardinal Motorsports to continue racing with another driver.
“Our ultimate goal is to get me a job driving for another team and then keep this racing team going as well,” Sellers said.
Popular News
Recent Headlines
-
7 reasons to watch the LifeLock 400 at Chicagoland Speedway: No. 1 - Ford
Comments (1) -
Lee Montgomery: Last-lap Daytona crash just one of them racing deals
Comments (14) -
Elliott Sadler somewhat satisfied with 10th-place Daytona finish
Post Comment -
Last-lap crash nixes solid run by Richard Petty Motorsports’ Kasey Kahne
Comments (4) -
Brian Vickers takes damaged car to seventh-place finish at Daytona
Comments (1)
Poll PositionView All
The race at which of these remaining tracks will have the largest impact on who makes the field for the Chase For The Sprint Cup?
Promotions
-
Play "WIX Filters' Pick 3" stock car fantasy and win prizes. Season 2 is now in session!
-
Tweet your thoughts about each race and join the conversation with other fans.
-
Drive an authentic NASCAR Sprint Cup car at the Jeff Gordon Racing School.
-
Play our simulation racing fantasy game. Free with promo code "FREECRD".
Comments
4 responses to "Peyton Sellers to compete in Nationwide for Cardinal Motorsports". Post a Comment.
Bernadette Motherway said:
Jan 6, 2009 at 9:00 PMI'm sorry?! Who is Peyton Sellers and Cardinal Motorsports? I'm not as knowledgeable as Pat.
Janice Marler said:
Jan 7, 2009 at 12:25 AMGlad to see some lesser known owners and drivers entering the sports. I may not know the name of the driver or the company, but I certainly know the name Berrier. GOOD LUCK!
Janice Marler said:
Jan 7, 2009 at 12:36 AMYasir, this is a forum to discuss racing NOT advertise your website.
Teema H. said:
Jan 7, 2009 at 3:34 PMMet Peyton at Loudon, and a nicer and more personable young man I have yet to meet....Good luck to him!!