Winners and Losers – Darlington Edition
Written By: Brian Eberly, @beberly18 May 14, 2013 Winners Joe Gibbs Racing – The three Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota’s finished first, second, and sixth in Saturday night’s Bojangles’ Southern 500. Matt Kenseth brought the No. 20 Home Depot/Husky machine to the checkered flag first, taking the lead from teammate Kyle Busch and pulling away to [...]
Posted: May 14th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Results.
Tags: Bojangles' Southern 500, Brad Keselowski, Darlington Raceway, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, Joe Gibbs Racing, kasey kahne, Kyle Busch, Mark Martin, Matt Kenseth, Ryan Newman, Stewart-Haas Racing
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A Look Back: Ten Years after the Door to Door Finish at Darlington
Written By: Lauren Perkins – follow @perkylauren May 11, 2013 Darlington Raceway is known for tight racing under the lights, mostly between the cars and the wall. The wall at Darlington is famous for giving the cars that get a little too close the “Darlington Stripe”, and this right side scrape of the paint is [...]
Posted: May 11th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: 2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400, Bojangles' Southern 500, Darlington Raceway, Kurt Busch, Ricky Craven
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Busch Perfect In Nationwide Win At Darlington
Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 May 10, 2013 Kyle Busch made it look easy, scoring his fifth win in the NASCAR Nationwide Series on Friday night at Darlington Raceway. The win was Busch’s 56th Nationwide win, tops in the series and the 112th win across all three NASCAR Series. Busch also recorded [...]
Posted: May 10th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Nationwide Series, Results.
Tags: Brian Vickers, Darlington Raceway, Elliott Sadler, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, Kyle Larson, Matt Kenseth, Regan Smith
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Hamlin Plans To Go The Distance At Darlington
Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 May 10, 2013 Denny Hamlin has no plans to step out of the No. 11 SportsClips Toyota on Saturday night at Darlington Raceway for the Bojangles’ Southern 500. Hamlin returned last weekend at Talladega for the first time since suffering a compression fracture in a vertebra in his [...]
Posted: May 10th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Bojangles' Southern 500, Brian Vickers, Darlington Raceway, Denny Hamlin
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For Kenseth, It’s Business As Usual At Darlington
Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 May 10, 2013 After NASCAR lowered the boom on Joe Gibbs Racing and the No. 20 team following the Kansas race, a three member appeal panel drastically reduced the original penalties. Matt Kenseth was north of the border, in Canada, when the appeal panel made their ruling, but [...]
Posted: May 10th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Darlington Raceway, Jason Ratcliff, Joe Gibbs Racing, Matt Kenseth
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Jimmie Johnson Dancing With The Lady In Black
Written by Stephen Conley May 10th, 2013 Hendrick Motorsports Public relations teams carried around a large bag full of hats representing the HMS 200th win for the first 10 races of the 2012 season. Not until the series rolled in to Darlington and Jimmie Johnson rolled in to Victory Lane were those hats [...]
Posted: May 10th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Darlington Raceway, Hendrick Motorsports, Jimmie Johnson, Lowes
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Katie’s Komments: Week 6
Written By: Katie Copple Follow: @Katie_Copple May 10, 2013 Welcome to the sixth edition of Katie’s Komment’s, a place to find the latest NASCAR news and my opinion on it! All comments are my views only but feel free to leave your own! Penske Penalties: After losing their appeal against the three board members, [...]
Posted: May 10th, 2013
Categories: Track News.
Tags: Darlington Raceway, Matt Kenseth, Penske Racing, Talladega Super Speedway
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VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 Preview
Written By: Brian Eberly, @beberly18 May 9, 2013 After a thrilling finish in last weekend’s Aaron’s 312 at Talladega Superspeedway, the NASCAR Nationwide Series heads to the 1.366 mile Darlington Raceway for a Friday night under the lights in the VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200. Last year’s race featured Sprint Cup regular Joey [...]
Posted: May 10th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Nationwide Series, Track News.
Tags: Chris Buescher, Darlington Raceway, ESPN2, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joe Nemechek, Joey Logano, Justin Allgaier, kasey kahne, Kyle Busch, Kyle Larson, Matt Kenseth, Nascar Nationwide Series, Penske Racing, Roush Fenway Racing, The Lady in Black, The Track Too Tough To Tame, Turner Scott Motorsports, VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200
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Crunching The Numbers: Darlington
Written By: David Morgan – Follow on Twitter at @damorgan86 May 8, 2013 With a weekend full of rain delays, wild wrecks, close finishes, and underdog winners at Talladega Superspeedway behind them, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series head to Darlington Raceway, NASCAR’s first superspeedway, for some night racing on Mother’s Day weekend [...]
Posted: May 8th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Nationwide Series, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Austin Dillion, Bojangles' Southern 500, Brad Keselowski, Darlington Raceway, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Joey Logano, Justin Allgaier, Matt Kenseth, Nascar Nationwide Series, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Sam Hornish Jr.
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Darlington Raceway Marks Another Historic Moment
Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 February 5, 2013 DARLINGTON RACEWAY MARKS ANOTHER HISTORIC MOMENT IN 2013 The Gen-6 car makes history at the track Too Tough To Tame DARLINGTON, S.C. (Feb. 5, 2013) – With the new Gen-6 racecar making its first appearance during the Goodyear Tire Test at Darlington Raceway today, [...]
Posted: February 5th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Track News.
Tags: Bojangles' Southern 500, Carl Edwards, Darlington Raceway, Denny Hamlin, Goodyear Tire Testing, NASCAR Gen-6
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