For the third consecutive yr, a stacked Late Mannequin Inventory Automobile area to compete within the annual working of the South Carolina 400 at this Saturday evening (6 p.m. ET on ).
Earnhardt has made a behavior of competing at Florence since 2022, when he returned to the Timmonsville, South Carolina monitor for the fist time since his early life racing Late Mannequin Shares across the Southeast. He has South Carolina 400 finishes of ninth (2022) and eighth (2023). The 50-year-old NASCAR Corridor of Famer has already competed at Florence twice this yr, ending fourth in February’s IceBreaker and tenth in a CARS Tour race on Aug. 30.
On Saturday, he’ll be up in opposition to a stacked entry checklist that features Late Mannequin Inventory Automobile racing’s greatest rivals, together with Earnhardt’s former JR Motorsports driver Josh Berry, 2022 South Carolina 400 winner Brenden “Butterbean” Queen and defending occasion winner Kade Brown.
Earnhardt will race a well-known automobile, as his No. 8 Late Mannequin Inventory will function the identical Budweiser scheme he made well-known throughout his years driving for Dale Earnhardt Inc. within the NASCAR Cup Collection.
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Because of his victory within the CARS Tour occasion at Florence in August, Ryan Millington will begin Saturday’s South Carolina 400 from the pole.
Under is every little thing else to know in regards to the 2024 South Carolina 400 at Florence Motor Speedway, together with the entry checklist and watch.
South Carolina 400: TV channel, stay stream
The 2024 South Carolina 400 at Florence Motor Speedway can be proven solely on , the streaming house of all NASCAR Regional properties.
The race is not going to broadcast on a conventional TV channel/community.
FloRacing’s protection of Saturday’s motion is scheduled to start out at 4:15 p.m. ET. That’s when qualifying will start for all three divisions (Avenue Shares, Mini Shares, Late Fashions).
Pre-race ceremonies are scheduled to start at 6 p.m. ET, instantly adopted by function racing. Twin Late Mannequin warmth races will start the function motion, adopted by the Avenue Inventory and Mini Inventory races.
The 250-lap Late Mannequin function will shut the evening.
Entry checklist
Earnhardt headlines the entry checklist for Saturday’s $10,000-to-win South Carolina 400 at Florence Motor Speedway, marking the third consecutive season he has entered the distinguished Late Mannequin Inventory Automobile occasion.
The NASCAR Corridor of Famer can be racing in opposition to one of the best Late Mannequin Inventory Automobile rivals within the Southeast. Included amongst them is Berry, who captured the 2020 NASCAR Advance Auto Elements Weekly Collection nationwide championship whereas driving for Earnhardt.
Brown, the defending South Carolina 400 winner, can be again within the area, however this time he’ll be driving the No. 4 for R&S Race Automobiles moderately than the No. 23 he drove final yr for Matt Piercy.
Different notable entries embrace Queen, Carson Loftin, Jared Fryar, Millington, Brent Crews, Caden Kvapil, Mason Diaz, Landon Huffman, Landon S. Huffman, Treyten Lapcevich, Doug Barnes Jr., Sam Yarbrough and Michael Bumgarner, amongst others.
The whole Late Mannequin Inventory Automobile entry checklist is beneath.
(As of Nov. 18)
Race-day schedule
Saturday at Florence Motor Speedway will mark the second full day of racing motion in what makes up the South Carolina 400 weekend.
For Avenue Shares, Mini Shares and Late Fashions on Saturday, there can be two follow classes forward of qualifying. For the Late Fashions, those that don’t log a top-20 time in qualifying will compete within the warmth races later within the night to attempt to safe their beginning positions. The highest six finishers of these warmth races will advance to the principle occasion.
Under is the whole race-day schedule for Saturday at Florence.
(All Occasions ET)
South Carolina 400 race format
Under is the race format for the South Carolina 400, through Florence Motor Speedway.
ALL TEAMS QUALIFY WITH THE TOP 20 LOCKING IN FROM QUALIFYING. THE POLE POSITION IS RESERVED FOR THE NO. 15 OF RYAN MILLINGTON WITH HIS WIN IN THE CARS TOUR EVENT ON AUG. 30.
AFTER QUALIFYING, THE TOP 20 WILL LOCK INTO THE 250 LAP FEATURE.
ALL OTHER CARS WILL BE RELEGATED TO TWO 25 LAP HEAT RACES WITH THE TOP 6 FINISHERS ADVANCING.
THE TRACK HAS THE OPTION TO ADD 3-4 PROVISIONALS IF DESIRED, TO CAP THE STARTING FIELD TO 36 CARS.
THE FEATURE WILL BE 250 LAPS WITH A ten-MIN BREAK AT LAP 125. CAUTION LAPS WILL COUNT UNTIL LAP 200.
South Carolina 400 outcomes
Though the Myrtle Seashore 400 now not exists, the custom that began again in 1993 stays alive and nicely within the South Carolina 400.
For 26 years, Late Mannequin Inventory rivals throughout the southeast had the Myrtle Seashore 400 circled on their calendar. The motive force who discovered probably the most success throughout that timeframe was Frank Deiny Jr.; he tallied three consecutive Myrtle Seashore 400 victories from 2003-05 earlier than including another checkered flag within the prestigious race again in 2010, which he achieved by passing Steve Grissom‘s son Kyle Grissom with 20 laps remaining.
Different notable drivers who’ve scored a Myrtle Seashore 400 victory embrace Berry, Christian Eckes, Myatt Snider, Timothy Peters and Scott Riggs. Will Burns claimed the ultimate Myrtle Seashore 400 in 2019.
Under is the whole checklist of Myrtle Seashore 400 and South Carolina 400 winners.
Florence Motor Speedway monitor profile
Even informal race followers find out about South Carolina‘s Darlington Raceway, probably the most iconic venues the NASCAR Cup Collection visits on an annual foundation.
Those self same followers could or could not find out about a NASCAR Residence Monitor positioned simply 15 miles south of Darlington generally known as the Diamond of the Southeast. Florence Motor Speedway, nestled within the city of Timmonsville, is certainly a gem of a brief monitor.
Florence Motor Speedway, now a NASCAR-sanctioned venue and a part of the NASCAR Advance Auto Elements Weekly Collection, has been internet hosting native quick monitor racing since 1982. It has been operated on the watch of proprietor and promotor Steve Zacharias since 2020.
Zacharias is the rationale Florence‘s racing season begins with the IceBreaker, an occasion that options late-model shares along with tremendous vans, restricted late fashions and mini shares. He introduced the IceBreaker to Florence from close by Myrtle Seashore Speedway upon that monitor‘s closing.
The monitor itself is exclusive in its structure. The 0.4-mile paved oval options progressive banking within the corners, a mixture that‘s vulnerable to producing side-by-side racing.
Maybe probably the most distinctive attribute of Florence Motor Speedway is that proven fact that, apart from the frontstretch in entrance of the grandstands, it has no outdoors wall.
“It‘s uncommon the primary time you go there and expertise it,” 2020 NASCAR Advance Auto Elements Weekly Collection champion Josh Berry advised NASCAR.com. “However after some time, it‘s no huge deal.
“It‘s a extremely enjoyable monitor.”
Watch the whole Florence Motor Speedway monitor profile beneath.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s South Carolina 400 historical past at Florence Motor Speedway
Dale Earnhardt Jr. made a major return to his roots in 2022 when he competed within the South Carolina 400 at Florence Motor Speedway.
In what was the thirtieth version of the race, Earnhardt drove a automobile sporting a throwback scheme to the Bass Professional Outlets automobile his father Dale Earnhardt Sr. drove within the 1998 NASCAR All-Star Race.
He certified twenty sixth and methodically labored his means into competition forward of the ultimate 50-lap run. With 13 laps to go, Earnhardt made contact with Matt Cox down the backstretch whereas the 2 have been racing for third.
The contact despatched Cox into the within wall, and occasion officers penalized Earnhardt by sending him to the tail of the sector for inflicting the crash.
Earnhardt marched again by means of the sector a second time, however an incident with Landon Pembelton with fewer than 5 laps left noticed Earnhardt penalized a second time, leading to a ninth-place end.
The race was Earnhardt‘s first at Florence Motor Speedway since his early life within the Nineties.
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He returned for the 2023 version of the South Carolina 400. He certified twenty sixth and methodically labored his means by means of the pack to in the end completed eighth within the 250-lap occasion.
The 2024 version of the South Carolina 400 can be his third begin within the prestigious race; he ran twenty third within the 1996 Myrtle Seashore 400, the South Carolina 400’s predecessor.
Earnhardt additionally raced in Florence’s Icebreaker in February; he completed fourth. He completed tenth in a CARS Tour occasion at Florence in August.
