NASCAR is marking its 75th Anniversary this May with the HSR Historic Stock Car Invitational that will be part of the Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR at Darlington Raceway, May 12 – 14th. Opening in 1950 just two years after NASCAR was founded, Darlington Raceway is “A NASCAR Tradition” and its original superspeedway with a uniquely tricky 1.366-mile egg-shaped oval that challenges the sports best on two NASCAR race weekends each season. Equally revered and respected, Darlington is one of the few sporting venues in the world to have earned more than one well-known nickname as the “Track too Tough to Tame” and “The Lady in Black.”
Appropriately hosting one of NASCAR’s most famous races, the Southern 500 at Darlington each fall now serves as the opening race of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs. The HSR Historic Stock Car Invitational, however, appropriately takes its place this May on the award-winning Throwback Weekend that hosts all three of NASCAR’s top-tier national series. The HSR Stock Car Invitational will showcase a select group of historic and vintage stock cars that will be on display at the Darlington midway throughout the weekend and driven on track in a pair of speed-controlled exhibition runs on Saturday before the NASCAR Xfinity Series race and Sunday prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Goodyear 400. Limited to a select 20 entries, all interested participants are encouraged to immediately send their car details to Hinton at [email protected] as soon as possible.
