The Latest: NASCAR’s Darlington throwback race a sellout

DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway (all times local):

3:50 p.m.

If you don’t have a seat yet for the Southern 500, you’re too late.

Track officials announced they had sold out all of the 47,000 reserved seats for Sunday night’s event at Darlington Raceway.

The track dubbed “Too Tough To Tame” had come close in recent years to filling up but had always come up shy of a sellout.

Darlington’s last sellout was in 2008, the last of four straight years every ticket was sold when the race was run on Mother’s Day weekend.

The race was a crown jewel of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series when it was run on Labor Day weekend from its inception in 1950 until 2003. After 12 years of shifting on the NASCAR calendar from November to May to April, the Southern 500 moved back to Labor Day weekend, where it’s become the sport’s official throwback weekend.