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Payton Talbot, John Ketron, Adam Hensel and Shawn Bowar win NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national championships in DII-V

Payton Talbot, John Ketron, Adam Hensel and Shawn Bowar win NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national championships in DII-V

Connor Hall, the 2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division I national champion, isn’t the only driver to clinch a national championship this season, as the champions for Divisions II, III, IV and V have been revealed.

Payton Talbot, John Ketron, Adam Hensel and Shawn Bowar are the national champions of Divisions II-V, respectively, in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series for 2023.

Below is more on each champion.

2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division II champion

Payton Talbot

The 2023 season was huge for Payton Talbot, a native of South New Berlin, New York, who has been racing since he was 10.

Not only did Talbot capture the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division II national championship with 24 starts split between New York’s Fonda and Utica-Rome Speedways; he also captured the track championship in the Crate 602 Sportsman division at Fonda.

In his 24 races at Fonda and Utica-Rome, Talbot scored eight victories and only finished outside the top 10 twice. Six of his victories came at Fonda, with the other two coming at Utica-Rome. He scored 448 points throughout the 2023 season, and he needed every point to capture the championship. He bested Canadian racer William Racine by four points to lay claim to the championship.

In all, Talbot scored eight victories, 21 top fives and 22 top 10s spread across 24 starts at Fonda and Utica-Rome.

The final 2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division II national standings can be found here.

2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division III champion

John Ketron

John Ketron has been racing for a long time at Tennessee’s Kingsport Speedway, and now he can call himself a NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national champion.

Ketron, a multi-time champion of Kingsport Speedway’s Pure 4 division, locked up the 2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division III national championship this season thanks to an incredible year at Kingsport.

In 16 events this year, Ketron scored 10 victories, and he never finished outside the top five. He cruised to the Kingsport Speedway Pure 4 track championship, locking it up before the scheduled season finale on Sept. 9 that was ultimately canceled due to rain. His 10-win season allowed him to score 436 points toward the Division III national championship, which gave him a 16-point edge on Irwindale Speedway’s Bobby Ozman in the final standings.

Ketron’s final 2023 season stats included 10 victories, 21 top fives and 21 top 10s in 21 starts at Kingsport.

The final 2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division III national standings can be found here.

2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division IV champion

Adam Hensel

The 2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division IV national championship came down to a battle between a pair of competitors from Iowa’s Adams County Speedway.

In the end, the crown went to Adam Hensel, who denied fellow Adams County regular Luke Ramsey his third national championship in NASCAR competition.

The two were evenly matched throughout the 2023 campaign, with Hensel and Ramsey each winning four times. The edge, however, went to Hensel, who was able to score 16 top-five finishes to Ramsey’s 12. That was just enough to give Hensel the advantage in the final 2023 standings by 12 points.

In addition to capturing the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division IV national championship, Hensel also secured the track championship in the Hobby Stock class at Adams County.

In all, Hensel earned four victories, 16 top fives and 16 top 10s in 17 starts during the 2023 season.

The final 2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division IV national standings can be found here.

2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division V champion

Shawn Bowar

In the final season of racing at Illinois’ Rockford Speedway, the historic asphalt quarter-mile oval has produced a national champion.

Shawn Bowar, a competitor in the Bandit division at Rockford Speedway, captured the 2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division V national championship.

The battle for the Division V crown went all the way to the final weekend, with Bowar narrowly capturing the championship by six points ahead of Adams County Speedway competitor John Berg. Another Adams County racer, Zander Steiner, finished third, just eight points back.

Victories were vital to Bowar’s championship campaign. He scored eight wins during the 2023 season while Berg scored just two and Steiner scored only three. Those eight wins also helped Bowar claim his first Bandits division championship at Rockford Speedway.

In 12 starts this year, Bowar earned eight victories, 12 top fives and 12 top 10s on his way to the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Division V national championship.

The final 2023 NASCAR Advance Parts Weekly Series Division V national standings can be found here.