NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series - Buckle Up South Carolina 200

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This weekend, we head to Darlington Raceway for the Buckle Up South Carolina 200. The race is Saturday at 12:00pm ET on FS1. This will be run during the day, which could increase tire fall off on long runs. This will be the 7th Truck race at Darlington since the series returned to racing here in 2020. The race winner has started inside the top 6 in 5 of the 6 races here since returning. There have been at least 7 cautions for 35 laps in each of those 5 races. Chevrolet has won 4 of the last 5 races here. Darlington is a unique 1.366-mile oval that has 2 different sized corners. It’s an older racing surface, so it’s a high-tire wear track. It comps best to Homestead, but for more data, you can use steep tracks and high-wear tracks. I will be using recent Darlington data, Darlington/Homestead data, practice, 1.5-mile data, 2025 speed, and a few other things when building lineups this weekend.

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The stages are 45, 45, and 57, which is a total of 147 laps. With 147 laps, we’re looking at 66.15 potential fastest lap points and 36.75 laps led points. After the cautions, we’re looking at 85 to 90 dominator points. Fastest laps can get spread out on high-tire wear tracks, and this has led to 1 to 2 dominators in each of the 6 races here since 2020.