Is Darlington The Toughest Track?

Action during the 1970 Southern 500 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway. (SPEED SPORT Archives photo)


  • Ben White

    Starting with local newspapers and including a lengthy stint with NASCAR Scene, Ben White has covered stock car racing for nearly 50 years.

Stock car racing in America had to start somewhere and there was no better place and time than a piece of vacant southern farmland on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

From this oak tree to that oak tree usually defined the frontstretch, with a pair of pines marking a set of turns. Those trees in the distance at the other end of the field came into play when everyone agreed.

 

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