Buckle Up South Carolina 200

Buckle Up South Carolina 200
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Venue Darlington Raceway
Location Darlington, South Carolina, U.S.
Corporate sponsor South Carolina Department of Public Safety
First race 2001
Distance 200.802 miles (323.159 km)
Laps 147
Stages 1/2: 45 each
Final stage: 57
Previous names Darlington 200 (2001, 2004)
Craftsman Anniversary 200 (2002)
Craftsman 200 (2003)
Too Tough To Tame 200 (2010–2011)
South Carolina Education Lottery 200 (2020)
In It To Win It 200 presented by the South Carolina Education Lottery (2021 September race)
LiftKits4Less.com 200 (2021)
Dead On Tools 200 (2022)
Most wins (driver) Bobby Hamilton
Kasey Kahne
Sheldon Creed (2)
Most wins (team) Bobby Hamilton Racing
Ultra Motorsports
GMS Racing
Kyle Busch Motorsports (2)
Most wins (manufacturer) Dodge (4)
Circuit information
Surface Asphalt
Length 1.366 mi (2.198 km)
Turns 4

The Buckle Up South Carolina 200 is a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race held at Darlington Raceway. The distance of the race is approximately 201 miles (323 km), contested over 147 laps.

Christian Eckes is the defending winner of this race, having won it in 2023.

History

LiftKits4Less.com was the title sponsor of the spring race in 2021

First ran in 2001, it was taken off the schedule after the 2004 season. In 2009, they announced after a six-year hiatus, Darlington would return to the Truck Series in August 2010. At the end of the year, they moved the race from August to mid-March for 2011. The race had been held under the lights since 2004. On November 21, 2011, it was announced that the event would once again be removed from the schedule.

The race returned to the Truck Series schedule in 2020 on Labor Day weekend initially as a one-off replacement date for the Chevrolet Silverado 250 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also became part of "throwback weekend" with the Cup and Xfinity Series, which already had races at Darlington that weekend. It became a permanent date on the 2021 schedule and was pushed to the throwback weekend, now in May. The Truck Series race would continue to race with the Cup and Xfinity Series there as part of a new second race weekend for those two series there. Another temporary race called the In It To Win It 200 was added for September when the pandemic forced the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park race to be called off again.

The South Carolina Education Lottery sponsored the race in 2020. When it was retained on the 2021 schedule, The 4Less Group took over as title sponsor with its LiftKits4Less.com brand. The State of South Carolina took over naming rights for the temporary 2021 race and the South Carolina Education Lottery returned as the race's associate sponsor after being the title sponsor in 2020. The name of the race was the In It To Win It 200 (presented by the South Carolina Education Lottery) as the state government partnered with the track to give away prizes to those who received a COVID-19 vaccine at the track on the day of the race. Dead On Tools became the title sponsor of the track's one race in 2022.

Past winners

Year Date Driver Team Manufacturer Race Distance Race Time Average Speed
(mph)
Ref
Laps Miles (km)
2001 May 12 Bobby Hamilton Bobby Hamilton Racing Dodge 135* 184.41 (296.779) 1:44:55 105.461
2002 March 15 Ted Musgrave Ultra Motorsports Dodge 147 200.802 (323.159) 1:50:32 109
2003 March 14 Bobby Hamilton Bobby Hamilton Racing Dodge 147 200.802 (323.159) 1:30:09 133.645
2004 November 13 Kasey Kahne Ultra Motorsports Dodge 150* 204.9 (329.754) 1:57:10 104.927
2005

2009
Not held
2010 August 14 Todd Bodine Germain Racing Toyota 147 200.802 (323.159) 1:52:04 107.509
2011 March 12 Kasey Kahne Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota 147 200.802 (323.159) 1:59:44 100.625
2012

2019
Not held
2020 September 6 Ben Rhodes ThorSport Racing Ford 147 200.802 (323.159) 1:53:44 109.536
2021* May 7 Sheldon Creed GMS Racing Chevrolet 147 200.802 (323.159) 2:28:40 81.041
September 5 147 200.802 (323.159) 1:54:23 105.331
2022 May 6 John Hunter Nemechek Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota 149* 203.534 (327.555) 2:13:17 91.625
2023 May 12 Christian Eckes McAnally-Hilgemann Racing Chevrolet 158* 213.096 (342.944) 2:02:42 105.539

Multiple winners (drivers)

# Wins Driver Years Won
2 Bobby Hamilton 2001, 2003
Kasey Kahne 2004, 2011
Sheldon Creed 2021 (both)

Multiple winners (teams)

# Wins Team Years Won
2 Bobby Hamilton Racing 2001, 2003
Ultra Motorsports 2002, 2004
GMS Racing 2021 (both)
Kyle Busch Motorsports 2011, 2022

Manufacturer wins

# Wins Make Years Won
4 Dodge 2001-2004
3 Toyota 2010, 2011, 2022
Chevrolet 2021 (both), 2023
1 Ford 2020