The 2004 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 program cover, featuring the finish of 2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 between Ricky Craven and Kurt Busch.
Date
March 21, 2004
Official name
Carolina Dodge Dealers 400
Location
Darlington Raceway, Darlington, South Carolina
Course
Permanent racing facility 1.366 mi (2.198 km)
Distance
293 laps, 400 mi (644.12 km)
Scheduled Distance
293 laps, 400 mi (644.12 km)
Average speed
114.001 miles per hour (183.467 km/h)
Attendance
56,000
Pole position
Driver
Kasey Kahne
Evernham Motorsports
Time
28.638
Most laps led
Driver
Kurt Busch
Roush Racing
Laps
76
Winner
No. 48
Jimmie Johnson
Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network
FOX
Announcers
Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, Darrell Waltrip
Motor car race
The 2004 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 was the 5th stock car race of the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season and the 49th iteration of the event. The race was held before a crowd of 56,000 on March 21, 2004 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports would win the race, leading 69 laps. Bobby Labonte of Joe Gibbs Racing and Ryan Newman of Penske-Jasper Racing would take 2nd and 3rd, respectively.
The race would be the last spring Darlington race until 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced NASCAR to race at Darlington in the spring, as the Ferko lawsuit would move the second race that Darlington originally had, the Southern 500, to Texas Motor Speedway for a promised second date to Texas. The Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 would therefore move to the fall and be lengthened to 500 miles, making the race the new Southern 500.[1] In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic would make NASCAR race once again at Darlington in the spring,[2][3] and in 2021 after rekindled fan interest, would announce that Darlington would once again get its spring 400-mile race, this time called the Goodyear 400.[4][5]
The layout of Darlington Raceway, the venue where the race was held.
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