NASCAR 2022: Weather forecast for Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway

NASCAR fans look on during the NASCAR Cup Series Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
NASCAR fans look on during the NASCAR Cup Series Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

NASCAR fans are in for an action-packed weekend of stock-car racing at Darlington Raceway for this Sunday's Goodyear 400. The venue will host the 12th race of the 2022 Cup Series season after a spectacular finish in Dover last weekend.

The 'Lady in Black' will make its first out of two appearances in the Cup Series calendar this year. Drivers are set to battle it out over the 1.366-mile-long egg-shaped oval track.

Darlington Raceway hosted its first Cup Series race in 1950, with Johnny Mantz taking the win.

It is one of the steepest banking oval tracks, at a maximum of 33° on turns one and two and 23 degrees of banking at turns three and four.

A total of 36 drivers will be seen on track for Sunday. The race consists of 293 laps divided over three stages, adding up to 400-miles to the checkered flag.


Weather Forecast for 2022 NASCAR Goodyear 400

Here’s the weather forecast for this weekend at Darlington Raceway:

Friday, May 6, 2022

Dead on Tools 200: High 91°, Low 66°, Mostly cloudy, thunderstorms; warm, 60% chance of rain

Saturday, May 7, 2022

Mahindra ROXOR 200: High 86°, Low 62°, thunderstorm, 40% chance of rain

Sunday, May 8, 2022

Goodyear 400: High 75°, Low 53°, Not as warm with some sun, 10% chance of rain


Full entry list for the 2022 NASCAR Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway

The 2022 iteration of the Goodyear 400 is set to see a total of 36 cup cars lined up on the grid, which are as follows:

  1. #1 - Ross Chastain
  2. #2 - Austin Cindric (R)
  3. #3 - Austin Dillon
  4. #4 - Kevin Harvick
  5. #5 - Kyle Larson
  6. #6 - Brad Keselowski
  7. #7 - Corey LaJoie
  8. #8 - Tyler Reddick
  9. #9 - Chase Elliott
  10. #10 - Aric Almirola
  11. #11 - Denny Hamlin
  12. #12 - Ryan Blaney
  13. #14 - Chase Briscoe
  14. #15 - J. J. Yeley (i)
  15. #16 - Daniel Hemric
  16. #17 - Chris Buescher
  17. #18 - Kyle Busch
  18. #19 - Martin Truex Jr.
  19. #20 - Christopher Bell
  20. #21 - Harrison Burton (R)
  21. #22 - Joey Logano
  22. #23 - Bubba Wallace
  23. #24 - William Byron
  24. #31 - Justin Haley
  25. #34 - Michael McDowell
  26. #38 - Todd Gilliland (R)
  27. #41 - Cole Custer
  28. #42 - Ty Dillon
  29. #43 - Erik Jones
  30. #45 - Kurt Busch
  31. #47 - Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
  32. #48 - Alex Bowman
  33. #51 - Cody Ware
  34. #77 - Landon Cassill (i)
  35. #78 - B. J. McLeod
  36. #99 - Daniel Suárez

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Edited by Adam Dickson