The Chase for the NASCAR Cup Series championship is officially here. Beginning with this weekend’s Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, 16 drivers will duke it out over a 10-race stretch. The driver with the most points at the conclusion of the 10 races will be crown the series champion.
Darlington Raceway, known as “The Lady In Black”, due to the outer wall getting a fresh coat of black Goodyear rubber each time NASCAR visits, and the track “Too Tough To Tame” due to the difficult egg-shaped layout of the track, will be quite the test of the championship mentality for those battling it out.
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Denny Hamlin, who...
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