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Experiencing the Track Banking

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Darlington Raceway History Tour! Inside Forgotten Details of NASCAR's Most Unique Track

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Josh Harris, the current Track President, drives a golf cart onto the track's banking, explaining its impressive 25-degree incline at the top. He highlights the intensity of experiencing the banking firsthand, emphasizing how drivers run dangerously close to the walls to maximize speed, often resulting in the famous 'Darlington Stripe.'

Goal: Showcase the steepness and challenge of Darlington's banking.

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Can we go up into the turn and show how narrow the the racing surface actually is? Yeah. So, here we we'll come up close. We'll take a walk up. Uh would the golf cart tip over? Have you tried to go up there? No, it won't tip over, but it'll we'll certainly have to make a lean to the left or the right. Have you tried to go up? We'll get up here a little bit just to give you a little bit of the sensation. Uh it progressively gets steeper the further up we go. It's 25° uh at the top here. So I'm going to stop. We'll we'll go right here up to the Darlington uh logo. And it's always cool to walk up the banking. Um because you really get that sensation of how steep it is. the further we get up here to the top, the the steeper the banking. And that's why they like to run as close to this wall as they can. Uh which affectionately leads to all the Darlington stripes, which you can see there's a little bit still here uh on the walls that'll get painted up fresh before the race coming up next weekend. And then every night uh after each race, we'll get out here, our track crew team, and they'll repaint the walls fresh uh before we before we kick off the next

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