Clint Bowyer No. 15 5-hour ENERGY Toyota Darlington Preview

Easter is just around the corner and the tradition that accompanies the holiday of dying eggs a variety of colors. Like everyone else, the Sprint Cup Series will have to wait until next weekend to celebrate the holiday- the first of two off weekends for the circuit- but colors and eggs of a different sort characterize this weekend’s race at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina.

The coloring may not happen to eggs this weekend but something else usually ends up colorful at Darlington. The egg-shaped track called “too tough to tame” typically challenges drivers with the result being contact with the wall. Whether it’s contact made by tires or, in some cases, the paint from a car leaving what is known as a “Darlington Stripe,” the result is a wall that can sometimes be as colorful as an Easter egg.

Clint Bowyer hopes all the colors of his No. 15 5-hour ENERGY Toyota remain on his car and not the wall this weekend. It’s been a somewhat challenging track for the Michael Waltrip Racing driver. He did, however, earn one of his two poles at the 1.366-mile track, despite Bowyer saying he didn’t “know better than to drive it in that hard and he was just lucky it stuck and didn’t hit the wall.”

And while he has only one top-10 finish, half of his eight starts have ended in top-15s. With two consecutive top-10 finishes in the past two races, Bowyer hopes his brightly colored Toyota is more colorful than the Darlington walls by the end of 367 laps Saturday evening.

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