2001 Mountain Dew Southern 500

2001 Mountain Dew Southern 500
Race details
Race 25 of 36 in the 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season
Layout of Darlington Raceway
Date	September 2, 2001 (2001-September-02)
Official name	Mountain Dew Southern 500
Location	Darlington Raceway, Darlington County, South Carolina
Course	Permanent racing facility 1.366 mi (2.198 km)
Distance	367 laps, 501.322 mi (806.800 km)
Average speed	122.773 miles per hour (197.584 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Kurt Busch	Roush Racing
Most laps led
Driver	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports
Laps	138
Winner
No. 22	Ward Burton	Bill Davis Racing
Television in the United States
Network	NBC
Announcers	Allen Bestwick, Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach, Jr.

The 2001 Mountain Dew Southern 500, the 52nd running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on September 2, 2001 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. Contested at 367 laps on the 1.366 mile (2.198 km) speedway, it was the twenty-fifth race of the 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Ward Burton of Bill Davis Racing won the race.

Background

Darlington Raceway, nicknamed by many NASCAR fans and drivers as "The Lady in Black" or "The Track Too Tough to Tame" and advertised as a "NASCAR Tradition", is a race track built for NASCAR racing located near Darlington, South Carolina. It is of a unique, somewhat egg-shaped design, an oval with the ends of very different configurations, a condition which supposedly arose from the proximity of one end of the track to a minnow pond the owner refused to relocate. This situation makes it very challenging for the crews to set up their cars' handling in a way that will be effective at both ends.

The track, Darlington Raceway, is a four-turn 1.366 miles (2.198 km) oval. The track's first two turns are banked at twenty-five degrees, while the final two turns are banked two degrees lower at twenty-three degrees.

Top 10 results

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer
1	22	Ward Burton	Bill Davis Racing	Dodge
2	24	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
3	18	Bobby Labonte	Joe Gibbs Racing	Pontiac
4	20	Tony Stewart	Joe Gibbs Racing	Pontiac
5	9	Bill Elliott	Evernham Motorsports	Dodge
6	99	Jeff Burton	Roush Racing	Ford
7	28	Ricky Rudd	Robert Yates Racing	Ford
8	29	Kevin Harvick	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
9	25	Jerry Nadeau	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
10	36	Ken Schrader	MBV Motorsports	Pontiac

Race statistics

Time of race: 4:05:00
Average Speed: 122.773 miles per hour (197.584 km/h)
Pole Speed: 168.048
Cautions: 11 for 51 laps
Margin of Victory: under caution
Lead changes: 19
Percent of race run under caution: 14.2%
Average green flag run: 28.6 laps

2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series

Points races	Daytona 500 Dura Lube 400 UAW-Daimler Chrysler 400 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 Food City 500 Harrah's 500 Virginia 500 Talladega 500 NAPA Auto Parts 500 Pontiac Excitement 400 Coca-Cola 600 MBNA Platinum 400 Kmart 400 Pocono 500 Dodge/Save Mart 350 Pepsi 400 Tropicana 400 New England 300 Pennsylvania 500 Brickyard 400 Global Crossing at the Glen Pepsi 400 Presented by Meijer Sharpie 500 Mountain Dew Southern 500 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 400 MBNA Cal Ripken Jr. Protection One 400 UAW-GM Quality 500 Old Dominion 500 EA Sports 500 Checker Auto Parts 500 Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn 400 Pennzoil Freedom 400 NAPA 500 New Hampshire 300

Exhibition races	Budweiser Shootout Gatorade 125s The Winston

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