The final race of the season at Claremont Motorsports Park saw the top three drivers in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division II standings face off.
Jerod Weston finished tenth. Adam Gray finished sixth. David Greenslit took the checkered flag at the New Hampshire short track.
A week later, Greenslit was named Division II national champion.
The national championship was the icing on top of a career season for Greenslit, who drove street stocks at Claremont where he was track champion, and won the “Battle of the Belt” championship for the driver with the most points between four tracks in New Hampshire — Claremont, Monadnock, Lee USA, and Hudson Speedways.
Greenslit won the national championship by just two points over Gray — one position on the track.
Even with 12 wins and 20 top-five finishes in 23 starts this season, Greenslit still said the national title was a huge surprise. He knew he would likely have to win the final race of the season, given the good competition he was up against, but a win didn‘t guarantee him anything.
“I wasn’t actually sure if I had won the national championship until a week and a half later when it finally came out and I got a call,” Greenslit said.
“It was actually pretty surprising. I was sitting in my tree stand and my phone kept ringing and ringing and ringing and I got a couple texts from Mike at Claremont saying, ‘Hey, you need to answer your phone. NASCAR is trying to get a hold of you.‘”
Greenslit was sponsored by Vermont Cabinetry, Backwoods Trophy Outfitters, and LFOD Motorsports, who are building him a brand new car now.
Since the announcement, Greenslit said he‘s had a lot of people calling and congratulating him, and had some new sponsors stepping up wanting to support him next season.
The New Hampshire driver plans to run Claremont and Hudson full time next season, and plans to try to defend his Battle of the Belt Championship. While he‘s already making plans for 2021, he‘s going to relish in his 2020 “dream season” a little longer.
“It was unreal. It was an awesome season,” he said. “It was like a dream. A dream season.”
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Gray finished the 2020 season second in the national points. His six wins and 11 top five finishes in 15 starts were enough for a track championship at Connecticut’s Stafford Motor Speedway by 54 points in the track‘s late model division.
Weston won the track championship in Iowa’s Adams County Speedway’s O‘Reilly Auto Parts B Modifieds division. He finished the year with six NASCAR wins and 12 top-five finishes in 13 starts, and was third in the final NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national standings.
Willie Gammill was fourth, winning seven races in 15 starts at Salina Highbanks Speedway in Oklahoma, where he was track champion in the AmeriFlex Hose and Accessories B-Mods division.
Gammill also finished second in Salina‘s Dawson Roofing Super Stocks Division.
New Hampshire driver Jaret Curtis finished fourth in Division II, with three wins and 16 top fives in 18 NASCAR starts. Curtis finished second in the Street Stocks division at Monadnock Speedway.