Darlington Starting Lineup Qualifying Washout Puts Kevin Harvick In No. 1

And with that, it washed away qualifying fo Sunday’s Southern 500.

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Friday’s two practice sessions were to have given drivers and their throwback-schemed machines a chance to prepare. Qualifying was scheduled for Saturday.

Instead, Sprint Cup drivers took the Track Too Tough To Tame twice on Saturday. Sunday’s lineup will be strictly by the book — the NASCAR rulebook, in which owner points prevail.

The silver lining left as Hermine departed? Sunday should be nice, with temperatures falling from the lower 80s at race time to the mid-70s over its 500-plus miles.

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Sunday’s Southern 500 is scheduled to begin about 6 p.m. ET, with drivers rolling off two by two in the following order.