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Sellers Shines at Milwaukee Mile, Next Stop: SkillsUSA Championships

Milwaukee, WI.:  The Milwaukee Mile welcomed Peyton Sellers with open arms
this weekend in the NASCAR Nationwide Series NorthernTool.com 250.  The
young driver of the #77 SFP Chevrolet had his best run so far this season,
finishing 15th.

Although Sellers is getting good experience this season on the larger
tracks, he is known as a 'short track specialist' from his experience
across the short tracks of America.  Sellers was the youngest ever Whelen
All American National Champion in 2005, and posted top ten season finishes
in NASCAR's Camping World Series each of the past three years.

Milwaukee's legendary one-mile mostly flat track was just what he and his
Cardinal Motorsports team were looking for in their fifth of ten planned
races this season.  Sellers qualified 24th  for the 43 car starting
lineup.  The rookie has made the field for all of his races this season.

Sellers began to make up ground almost immediately, gaining four positions
in the first seven laps of the race.  As the track cooled, the car
continued to improve, and by lap 77 he was pushing to move into the top
ten and turning some of the fastest lap times on the track.

The night had only four cautions, however, and most teams came in to pit
for the first time of the night around lap 80.  The pit road speed limit
at Milwaukee is 35 mph, and Sellers found himself clocked just one mph too
fast entering, sending him to the rear of the field and a lap down.

Sellers re-entered in 24th position and worked his way back to 15th place,
continuing to post solid lap times and skillfully avoiding the two
incidents which brought out cautions later in the race.

"We probably had a top five car tonight", said Sellers.  "We were well
prepared and the car continued to get better and better all night.  I'm
real proud of our whole team.  We've really got things working now like we
want them to."


Sellers will now travel to Kansas City for the SkillsUSA National
Leadership and Skills Conference.  The week-long event showcases 5,400
career and technical education students competing in 91 different
leadership and skilled trade disciplines.  Sellers is a national
spokesperson for the organization and will appear at the opening ceremony.


The annual event also includes TECHSPO, considered the largest trade show
for technical education in the nation, where Sellers will be promoting
sales of the #47  Jig-A-Loo/SkillsUSA replica car which was run in this
year's ARCA RE/MAX race at Daytona.  A portion of the proceeds benefit
SkillsUSA.

The team's primary sponsor, SFP, also plans to host events in Colby,
Kansas with Sellers during his week-long visit.

The team's next scheduled Nationwide Series race is July 25th at O'Reilly
Raceway Park in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Cardinal Motorsports is also
sponsored by Jig-A-Loo USA and Bosch, both of whom are supporters of
SkillsUSA.


About SFP

Headquartered in Leawood, Kan., SFP is an innovative agricultural company
that has developed a line of revolutionary products to improve fertilizer
efficiency. The company's flagship products, AVAIL(r) Phosphorus
Fertilizer Enhancer and NutriSphere-N(r) Nitrogen Fertilizer Manager, are
designed to be added to a farmer's existing fertilizer to improve
availability of the nutrients, in turn boosting crop yield potential by 10
to 15 percent. The company operates management, research, and
manufacturing facilities in Kansas, Illinois and Ohio and has
relationships with key distributors throughout the United States. In
addition to domestic operations, SFP's international distribution includes
Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Philippines. For more
information on SFP and its products, visit
www.sfp.com<http://www.sfp.com/>.


About SkillsUSA
SkillsUSA is a national nonprofit organization serving teachers and high
school and college students who are preparing for careers in trade,
technical and skilled service occupations. Founded in 1965, it has become
one of the country's largest student-based non-profit organizations
supporting those entering the world of skilled trade. With membership of
more than 300,000 students and instructors annually, SkillsUSA has reached
more than 9.6 million members since its inception.  For more information,
visit www.skillsusa.org<http://www.skillsusa.org/>.


 

Last Updated on 06/22/09
By George Campbell or Greg Fish
Email: neracing@neracing.com