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Darlington Raceway is hopping in the wayback machine again for the 2016 Southern 500, with this year's throwback theme focusing on the 1975-1984 era for the Bojangles' Southern 500 (Sept. 2-4, 2016).
More than 30 cars in the field for the 2015 Southern 500 featured paint schemes honoring drivers and popular livery from the 1970s. The event spurred memorable moments such as Kyle Larson driving the Mello Yello Chevrolet and morphing into Kyle Petty and Aric Almirola sporting a mustache fit for "The King." And Ned Jarrett and Ken Squier returned to the broadcast booth to call part of the race.
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The 2015 throwback event was the first of a five-year campaign, and drivers, teams and fans all enjoyed it so much that the program won the National Motorsports Press Association's 2015 Myers Brothers Award.
"We felt like if we could get eight or 10 teams on board to really showcase what we're trying to accomplish, we felt like in 2016 we could get more, in 2017 we would get more and so on," track president Chip Wile said. "But the response that we've gotten from everyone in the industry has been incredible."
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Dale Earnhardt Jr., for one, is pretty excited about the 2016 throwback program. After honoring Cale Yarborough in his 2015 throwback ride, Junior has strongly hinted that he'd like to drive a version of the "Gray Ghost" driven by Buddy Baker.