-Location: Darlington, South Carolina

-Length: 1,366 Mile

-Type: Intermediate

-Layout: Egg-shaped Oval

-Banking:

  • Turns 1 & 2: 25°
  • Turns 3 & 4: 23°
  • Frontstretch: 3°
  • Backstretch: 2°

-Opened: 1950

-Grandstand Seating: 75.000

-Pit Road Speed: 45mph

-Lap Record: 181,250mph (Kasey Kahne, 2011)

-Race:

  • Showtime Southern 500 (367 Laps)

-Nicknames:

  • The Lady in Black
  • The Track Too Tough To Tame
  • A NASCAR Tradition

-Website Darlington Raceway

-Gewinner:

  • 2008 The Dodge Challenger 500       Kyle Busch
  • 2009 The Southern 500                     Mark Martin
  • 2010 The SHOWTIME Southern 500  Denny Hamlin
  • 2011 The SHOWTIME Southern 500  Ragan Smith