The NASCAR Cup Series playoffs begin this weekend with one of the traditional jewels of its calendar, the Southern 500 in Darlington, South Carolina.
Southern 500 race detailsFront straight – 3 degrees | Turns 1-2 – 25 degrees | Back straight – 2 degrees | Turns 3-4 – 23 degreesJoey Logano
Opened in 1950, the track they’ve dubbed “too tough to tame” is one of the oldest on the circuit and one of its most celebrated. The unique, egg-shaped, 1.366-mile oval features wide, sweeping Turns 1 and 2 but has tighter third and fourth turns in order to preserve the pond that the original owner of the farmland stipulated must stay in place when the speedway was built.
In all, the top eight drivers with the best odds are all playoff drivers and 14 of the top 15 are in the postseason.
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