Darlington Raceway announced that next year's 500 mile race in May would be renamed the Southern 500, reviving the name of the traditional Labor Day weekend race that ran from 1950 through 2003, and moved to November in 2004 before being dropped as part of the settlement of the Ferko lawsuit.
Osborne's first race as crew chief came during the spring Darlington race in 2004 with veteran driver Jeff Burton.
A nickname for the Darlington Raceway, a NASCAR auto racing track in South Carolina, United States
He ran the first 2 races of 2003 for EVI with a 16th at Daytona and a 15th at Darlington.
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By 1998 the #22 team cracked the top ten in the final Winston Cup points standings and matched those results in 1999 (by which time Caterpillar, Inc. was sponsoring the team) and 2000, when the team finally returned to victory lane at the spring Darlington race.