The Track Too Tough To Tame

“The Track Too Tough To Tame” is what TheSportsNotebook’s NASCAR consultant, my brother Bill, called the Darlington Raceway in South Carolina that will host this week’s installment in the Sprint Cup Series on Saturday night (6:30 PM ET, Fox). And the recent history here backs that nickname up. Over the past five years, we’ve had five different winners of the Bojangles Southern 500 and with those winners including Regan Smith in 2011 and Mark Martin in 2009, it hasn’t just been the big names taking turns.