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Title track: proving yourself at Darlington, with its challenging--sometimes downright frightening--layout, usually means you've shown you have championship mettle.(NASCAR)
More than any other racetrack on the Winston Cup circuit, it is the measure of a driver.
"If you can run well at Darlington, you can run well anywhere," says three-time Winston Cup champion Cale Yarborough, who grew up in nearby Timmonsville, S.C. "It's one of the toughest places anybody ever raced on."
Yarborough ought to know. On Lap 118 of the 1965 Southern 500, his car collided with Sam McQuagg's. The impact launched Yarborough, who sailed over what was then a door handle-high metal guardrail, tumbled down the grass embankment outside the track and finished his wild ride lodged against a light pole in the parking lot.
Yarborough walked away ...
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