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Darlington Notes and Facts – Saturday: race:

- 702 drivers have competed in at least one NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway; 426 in more than one. - Eight of the 110 races at Darlington Raceway have been shortened due to weather conditions; the most recent was the fall race of 2000. - Since the...

Target CGR Partners With the Oscar Mayer:

Target Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (TCGRFS) has partnered with the Oscar Mayer brand to help introduce P3 Portable Protein Pack to the NASCAR community. The packs of meat, cheese and nuts are designed for active consumers looking for a snack to help keep...

Harvick wins the Darlington pole

for the Bojangles' Southern 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway is over, after the five minutes final round. #4-Kevin Harvick won the pole with a third round lap of 183.479mph for his 1st pole of 2014, 1st at Darlington and 7th of his career. Harvick has...

Qualifying Fast Facts – Darlington:

#4-Kevin Harvick won the Coors Light Pole Award for the 65th Annual Bojangles' Southern 500 with a lap of 26.802 seconds, 183.479 mph. This is his seventh pole in 474 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. This is his first pole and third top-10 start in 2014. This is his...

Second Round of Qualifying

for the Bojangles' Southern 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway is over after 10 minutes. 14 drivers ran faster then the track record of 181.918mph, set by Kurt Busch last May and #43-Almirola broke the track record and was faster then the record set in...

First Round of Qualifying

for the Bojangles' Southern 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway is over, after 25 minutes. 25 drivers broke the track record of 181.918mph, set by Kurt Busch last May while driving the #78 Chevy. #27-Menard 183.946 #11-Hamlin 183.726 #1-McMurray 183.719...

Coverage of Group Qualifying

for the Bojangles' Southern 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway is scheduled for Friday, April 11, 2014 at 6:05 pm/et. Television: FS1 at 6:00 pm/et Radio: Motor Racing Network at motorracingnetwork.com. Scheduled Qualifying TV Re-Air: at 4:30am/et on...

Happy Hour practice

for the Bojangles' Southern 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway is over, after 60 scheduled minutes, the top five, slowest and notes: #31-Newman 179.167 #9-Ambrose 178.978 #24-Gordon 178.906 #18-Busch 178.802 #22-Logano 178.731 slowest: #40-Cassill 170...

First Friday practice

for the Bojangles' Southern 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway is over, after 90 scheduled minutes, the top five, slowest and notes: #4-Harvick 177.665 #15-Bowyer 176.746 #48-Johnson 176.670 #2-Keselowski 175.886 #24-Gordon 175.767 slowest: #26-Whitt ...

Group Qualifying Rules:

the group qualifying rules for the Bojangles' Southern 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway will be as follows: At tracks measuring 1.25 miles in length or larger, qualifying will consist of three (3) rounds: 1) The first qualifying round is 25 minutes ...

Qualifying Order

for the Bojangles' Southern 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway is posted. 44 cars/drivers are listed. Qualifying order is how the cars come off pit road for group qualifying. The first of the drivers scheduled to go out is #48-Johnson. The final driver...

Edwards has no news on his contract situation:

Carl Edwards (contract up at end of 2014 season), driver of the #99 Ford Ecoboost Fusion, took time to meet with media members outside his hauler following the final Sprint Cup practice session Friday afternoon. Edwards spoke about a few things, including a final question...

Statement from Gene Haas Regarding FIA’s Grant of Formula One License:

Gene Haas, founder of Haas Automation and co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, has been granted a Formula One license by the FIA. The following is his statement. 'Obviously, we're extremely pleased to have been granted a Formula One license...

Latest on Biffle’s contract status UPDATE:

#16-Greg Biffle's contract with Roush Fenway Racing ends at the conclusion of the 2014 Sprint Cup Series season. Biffle answers a question concerning his contract status, taken from an interview with FrontStretch: Neff: Your contract is up this year. Have you been ...

Red Cross featured on the #16 Ford at Darlington:

A month-long Red Cross campaign concludes this Saturday at Darlington Raceway with one lucky blood donor, Maureen Holt from Surprise, Ariz., adding her name to the #16 Red Cross Ford Fusion hood. The #ImProud2Give campaign asked blood donors to select an online donation...

Sports Clips returns to the #11 at Darlington:

Sport Clips Racing is excited to enter its sixth season (2014) as a partner with Joe Gibbs Racing and will serve as the primary sponsor of NASCAR's Denny Hamlin's # 11 Sprint Cup car in Darlington (April) and Atlanta (August). Through their partnership with Darlington...

Darlington Goodyear Tire Notes:

Teams in both the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series will run the same Goodyear tire codes at Darlington this week . . . this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that these teams ran at Darlington last May . . . this left-side tire code has been...

Ford Mustang GT Aluminator XS to Pace Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington:

When the gleaming ruby red Mustang GT Aluminator XS paces the field of thundering NASCAR Sprint Cup machines at the Bojangles' Southern 500 on Saturday, April 12, at Darlington Raceway, it also will be waving the green flag for a year-long recognition of Mustang's ...

Great Clips makes its debut at Darlington:

Great Clips will adorn the hood of Kasey Kahne's #5 Chevy this weekend at Darlington and will be the primary sponsor on the car for nine more Sprint Cup Series events this year (HMS), see images of the scheme on the #5 Team Schemes page.(4-11-2014) ....

Darlington Notes and Facts – Friday: poles:

- Curtis Turner won the inaugural Coors Light pole at Darlington in 1950 with a speed of 82.034 mph. - 47 drivers have Coors Light poles at Darlington, led by David Pearson with 12. Kasey Kahne leads all active drivers with four. - Nine drivers have won consecutive...