Earnhardt will return to the track, arguably NASCAR’s toughest, in Friday night’s VFW Sport Clips Help A Hero 200 Nationwide Series race. It will be his seventh race in the JD Motorsports with Gary Keller No. 4 Chevrolet.
Darlington Stripe...Justin Allgaier will be making his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Darlington Raceway this weekend in the No. 51 Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes Chevy. The NSCS rookie has raced at the track affectionately known as "Too Tough To Tame" five times in his Nationwide Series career. Allgaier has two top-five and three top-10 finishes at the 1.366-mile track and has led 31 laps.
HScott Motorsports announced today that Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes will sponsor the No. 51 Chevrolet SS driven by Justin Allgaier in this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Darlington Raceway. Sherwin-Williams is the official provider of automotive paint and transportation finishes for NASCAR and supplies these products to HScott Motorsports as well.
Easter is just around the corner and the tradition that accompanies the holiday of dying eggs a variety of colors. Like everyone else, the Sprint Cup Series will have to wait until next weekend to celebrate the holiday- the first of two off weekends for the circuit- but colors and eggs of a different sort characterize this weekend’s race at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina.
It appears the Lady and Martin Truex Jr. have developed a special chemistry. “I’d rather think of it as a mutual feeling of respect,” said Truex about the Lady in Black, the longtime nickname for the formidable Darlington Raceway, site of Saturday night’s Bojangles’ Southern 500.
Vickers’ No. 55 Aaron’s Toyota will carry a special paint scheme honoring FSU’s 2013 BCS National Championship football team when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Daytona International Speedway on July 5.
David Reutimann, driver of the No. 35 MDS Transport Ford, comments on racing at Darlington Raceway: "My first trip to Darlington was in the Truck Series. And I absolutely outdid myself on getting my 'Darlington stripe.' I got oin practice and might even have gotten one in qualifying. It's one of those places where, if you're not up against the fence and using up the right side of the car, you're not trying hard enough. I definitely think I got credit for trying hard enough my first race there.
In an overtime restart, 23XI Racing driver Tyler Reddick made a last-lap pass to capture the eventual race win, his fifth victory of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season.
Tyler Reddick continued his early season dominance as he claimed his fifth win in the first nine races this season with a stellar last lap pass at Kansas Speedway.
