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| Vintage throwbacks at Darlington Raceway. |
This track oozes NASCAR history which is why fans have been coming to this track in the middle of no where in South Carolina for so long. It's tradition, and while NASCAR was resisting against it's historical importance for a brief period from 2005 to 2014 in favor of more traditional modern tracks, they saw the errors of their ways and brought the Labor Day weekend race back in 2015.
Rather than argue with angry fans about moving the Labor Day tradition, NASCAR embraced it and took things up full throttle asking teams to dress their race cars up in old school paint schemes. Last season Kyle Larson turned his No. 42 into a Mellow-Yellow Chevrolet, similar to what Kye Petty drove in the 1980's or Cole Trickle drove to a Darlington win in the movie "Days of Thunder." Just about every car entered this weekend will have something that will remind us of decades past. I love that!
“I like going to Darlington – it’s a fun place although it’s bit me a lot of times," Kyle Busch said. "I should have won probably twice as many races as I’ve won there, which is frustrating. I was glad to win there in 2008 and get my Southern 500 win – that was pretty cool. Why we’re good there? I don’t know, but it’s a place that a lot of the driver comes into play and I feel like all the JGR drivers obviously are really, really good. Of course, our equipment is good, too, and we can run fast there – run well there – and, if you can keep air in the tires, you might win.”
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