The eyes of the entire Late Model Stock Car world will be set on Virginia’s legendary South Boston Speedway on Saturday night for the annual Thunder Road Harley-Davidson 200, the biggest race of the year at South Boston. With an entry list of nearly 30 cars that is still expected to grow, some of the biggest names in the discipline are set to go after the $10,000 prize.

From some of the CARS Tour’s best to South Boston’s stars, the entry list is chock-full of big names, so let’s break down who are the drivers to watch.

We’ll start off with multi-time track champion and NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national champion, Peyton Sellers. Sellers is a two-time winner of the South Boston 200 with his wins coming in back-to-back years in 2018 and 2019. However, last year’s race did not go very well for Sellers, who is looking to rebound this year. Sellers was caught up in a crash prior to the halfway mark and finished 17th as a DNF. Sellers, who is second on the all-time wins list at South Boston Speedway, is always a threat in this race.

That leads us to the man who scored the victory in last year’s race, which is North Carolina’s Bobby McCarty. The three-time CARS Tour champion became a two-time winner of the South Boston 200 last year after Carson Kvapil was disqualified in post-race technical inspection. McCarty was hot on Kvapil’s heels for much of the last bit of the race but was unable to make the pass on track. That said, McCarty and his R&S Race Cars team proved to be the first legal car to take the finish, which gave McCarty his second win in three years in the South Boston 200. McCarty’s CARS Tour campaign so far this year has been up-and-down, so a trip to South Boston might be exactly what the doctor ordered. 

Defending track champion, Carter Langley is hoping this will be the year he triumphs in South Boston’s biggest race. The Zebulon, North Carolina driver wasn’t much of a threat for the win a year ago, though he did have a strong run with an eighth-place finish. But, it’s hard to count Langley out at South Boston.

Chesapeake, Virginia’s Brenden “Butterbean” Queen has been the hottest driver on the CARS Tour in recent weeks as he’s now won two of the last three races. Queen led much of the first half of last year’s South Boston 200 before fading to fourth on the track. Queen ended up with a second-place finish due to Kvapil’s disqualification and third-place finisher Landon Huffman’s DQ. Queen has never won at South Boston Speedway, though he'd never won at Dominion Raceway before last week’s victory either. Queen is racing for Lee Pulliam, who has won the South Boston 200 seven times in total, with six victories coming as a driver and one as an owner.

The driver Queen beat in the most recent CARS Tour race was Hampton, Virginia’s Connor Hall. Hall is proving that he is one of the best drivers in the region, and arguably the most underrated driver in the region as well. Hall is the defending NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national champion. He’s also leading the national points standings once again, and he’s the CARS Tour points leader as well. Though Hall has never won at South Boston Speedway, at this point it shouldn’t surprise anybody if he’s the one celebrating in victory lane at the end of 200 laps on Saturday night.

Former NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver and ValleyStar Credit Union 300 at Martinsville Speedway champion, Timothy Peters, is making his return to South Boston Speedway. Peters has not won the South Boston 200 before, but he did win the now-defunct Denny Hamlin Short Track Showdown invitational race when it was held at South Boston Speedway in 2015.

CARS Tour Drivers Running The South Boston 200

There’s more than a handful of full-time drivers from the top Late Model Stock Car touring series running the biggest race of the year at South Boston Speedway. We’ve already mentioned Brenden Queen, Bobby McCarty, and Connor Hall, but the other CARS Tour drivers entered are Brandon Pierce, Deac McCaskill, Logan Clark, Kaden Honeycutt, Kade Brown, and Isabella Robusto.

South Boston 200 Entry List

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