DARLINGTON

Darlington Raceway

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Location

1301 Harry Byrd Highway
Darlington, SC 29532Book Travel

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Track Details

Completed : 1950
Distance : 1.366 miles
Shape : Oval
Banking : 25° Turns 1-223° Turns 3-43° frontstretch2° backstretchFrontstretch : 1,229 feet
Backstretch : 1,229 feet
Seating : 63,000

Contact Info

P.O. Box 500
Darlington, SC 29540
(866) 459-RACEOfficial Web site

Tailgating

Football has Lambeau Field, baseball has Fenway Park, golf has Augusta National and NASCAR has Darlington Raceway. Parking is free on speedway property. The speedway owns a large portion of the land near the frontstretch.more

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Schedule

DATE	SERIES	RACE	LINKS

05/08/09	Nationwide Series	TBA	Tickets
05/09/09	Sprint Cup Series	TBA	Tickets Travel

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Race winner at Darlington Raceway

2008 Race Results

Sprint Cup Series

Dodge Challenger 500 :: Kyle Busch - 05/10/08
Cup Historical Race Winners

Nationwide Series

Diamond Hill Plywood 200 :: Tony Stewart - 05/09/08

Track Records

RACE RECORDS

Sprint Cup 500-Mile Race Record :: Dale Earnhardt 139.958 - 03/28/93
Sprint Cup 400-Mile Race Record :: David Pearson 132.703 - 05/11/68
Cup Historical Race Winners
Nationwide Race Record :: Michael Waltrip 138.140 - 09/05/92
Truck Race Record :: Bobby Hamilton 133.645 - 03/14/03

QUALIFYING RECORDS

2009 Qual Records Data not available.

Track History

Believing that Bill France's fledgling NASCAR just might catch on, Harold Brasington set out in the fall of 1949 to shape a 1.25-mile speedway on land that had once produced peanuts and cotton. Brasington himself often manned the controls of bulldozers and grading equipment. His plan called for a true oval, but the racetrack's design had to be changed in order to satisfy the landowner, who did not want his nearby minnow pond disturbed. The west end of the track (Turns 3 and 4) was narrowed to accommodate the fishing hole, creating Darlington's distinctive egg-shaped design.more