Even in 2009 , at the end of the springtime race at Darlington Speedway , only five cars out of a field of forty - three were without a Darlington Stripe and this was mostly .
Most of them knew they could n't drive along the wall .
Even in 2009 , at the end of the springtime race at Darlington Speedway , only five cars out of a field of forty - three were without a Darlington Stripe and this was mostly because most of them knew they could n't drive along the wall .