Lights at Darlington??

[silva2]

This is a race with dates in March and Novemeber, so they are going to put up lights?

That doesn't make much sense. Wouldn't it be a tad cool to be racing at night at those times of year?

[roach]

Here's links to their weather:

March

November

Yep - a tad cool.

jcr

[Teej]

At the risk of being moved.......

I imagine with their new dates NASCAR has given them for 2004, Darlington may look for another series to fill in that eight month vacancy between races...

[cmjc80]

The March race is the one that ticket sales are dropping. Look for that to be moved. The Southern 500 in November may crown a champion and doesn't really need any extra incentive to go.

[SamC]

Obviously, NBC is interested in plugging the Saturday night hole in its woeful prime time line up with NASCAR and college football. Look for over half of the Sept-Nov schedule (and one to three Notre Dame games) to be ET night events within a few years.

It has little to do with the live gate, and everything to do with TV.