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David Ragan will be making his first start in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series since 2006, but he has a distinct advantage this weekend over most of the other drivers in the field, and that is experience at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway. A track known as “too tough to tame” and “the lady in black.”
Ragan has 13 starts at Darlington in the NASCAR Cup Series through 2019 and two NASCAR Xfinity Series starts. His best finish of fifth came in the Cup Series race in 2008 driving for Jack Roush. Ragan has made 4,731 laps around Darlington in his career.
Shriners Hospitals for Children will support Ragan and his No. 17 Ford F-150 in the 200-mile race. Shriners Hospitals for Children provides specialized care to children with orthopaedic conditions, spinal cord injuries, burns and cleft lip and palate regardless of the families’ ability to pay. Ragan has been a member of Shriners International since 2012 and serves as its NASCAR ambassador. In addition, Envision will be an associate partner.
The South Carolina Education Lottery 200 from Darlington Raceway will be run on Sunday, Sept. 6 at 2 p.m. ET. The race will be broadcast live on FS1. The 147-lap race will be broken into three segments with stage-ending cautions on laps 45 and 90.
Ragan on Darlington: “Darlington is one of my favorite tracks and to be going back in the Truck Series is pretty cool. I know there is going to be anxiety for a lot of people going green for the first time at Darlington with no practice, or qualifying in a truck. Those first few laps will have a lot of intensity, but I think the trucks are made for tracks like Darlington, those one-mile tracks with a lot of character. You’ve got these young guys who are racing hard in the Truck Series, so it should be a fun race and it’s kind of like the preview right before the Southern 500.”
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