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Grandstand Upgrades and Lighting System

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

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The tour moves to the main grandstands, which have been upgraded with new chair-back seating, cup holders, and armrests in the Pearson, Tyler, and Brasington Towers. The Wallace section retains bench-back seating. The discussion touches on future expansion ideas for camping and an RV overlook. The lighting system, managed by Musco, is designed to illuminate the track for night racing without blinding drivers.

Goal: Showcase recent improvements to spectator areas and track lighting.

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It's a very sharp corner. Is there anything that's uh heavy on your radar of things you want to do or improve upon? Well, you know, it's always a balance here of of improvement but not changing the character of this facility. you know, um, our campgrounds are are very popular in the infield, so I'd love to, you know, down the road, let's see if we can expand on that in any way. Um, I would love to have a a full sweet tower above the front stretch at some point. Um, we've looked at how do we how do we make um, maybe an RV overlook over the back stretch down the road. So, there's a lot of ideas we've got. You know, nothing imminent right now in terms of definite plans, but those are some of the things. We just completed a renovation of the Pearson Tower over here. So, all the seats that you see uh were put in last year before our first race. So, we've got all chairback seating uh with cup holders and armrests in the Pearson Tower as well as the Tyler Tower and the Brazington tower down on the end. Um and then the Wallace section below on the front stretch are all metal chair back, you know, benchback seating. So, um that's one of our most recent enhancements uh that we've made here at the track. Interesting. The other cool thing that you could see from here is the light system. So Musco is our lighting partner and you've got the the lights all around the exterior of the track. Uh but then the other component of that for all of our NASCAR tracks are the inside light. So all of these little banks you see uh all along are shining light back onto the track surface, but it's structured so that it doesn't shine in the driver's eyes. Uh so it really helps brighten up and light the track up for night racing, which we'll have for the truck series. And then when we're back in September for the Southern 500, it'll it'll be start in the daytime and finish at night. Can you see where the flag stand used to be? Oh, yeah. I mean, well, you can't really see that now, but I mean, I can tell you

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