Pocono Raceway
Pocono Raceway was built in 1968. It has a capacity for 76,812, a length of 2.5 miles and a Tri-oval shape. Pocono Raceway itself takes the best features of several other tracks and combines them into one challenging piece of asphalt. The result is a track of varying turn radius and banking angles. For this reason it offers one heck of a test for even the most seasoned of racing veterans.
Pocono Raceway is recognized as one of NASCAR's most competitive raceways. The track features three curves, each with its own degree of banking. The track design produces fender to fender action and 200 mph. The most unusual track layout on the NASCAR schedule. Pocono Raceway has a massive front straight that often sees cars going four, five and six wide before they funnel down into turn one.
The triangle-shaped track has three different corner lengths and bankings making it very difficult to set up a car and to drive well. Pocono is, in a word, unique. But for as difficult as it is to set up and drive Pocono frequently hosts some great racing with races often decided within the last couple of laps.
There are other 2.5-mile race tracks in America, but there is no other track like Pocono Raceway. First, it’s a triangular oval. There are only three turns, each connected by a straightaway of varying lengths. The longest straightaway, the frontstretch, stretches 3,740 feet long and leads into Turn 1, a 14-degree turn that is like a turn you’d find on a superspeedway. From there, a 3,055-foot straightaway connects to the “tunnel turn,” an 8-degree turn over the tunnel leading into the track’s infield that drivers say is like a turn they find on short tracks. Because of the speeds and the angle that drivers must approach that turn, the “tunnel turn” is widely considered one of the most difficult in NASCAR. After that, it’s 1,780 feet to Turn 3, a 6-degree turn that has a road-course feel for the drivers. Put all of those things together and you’ve got Pocono Raceway, a track that has challenged NASCAR’s best since the first Cup race there in 1974.
Pocono 500 Race Results
Pocono 500 Race Winners
2010 Pocono 500 Race Winner
Hamlin won for the fourth time in the last nine races on the so-called "Tricky Triangle" at Long Pond and got his 12th career victory in NASCAR's top series, holding on to the lead during a wild, green-white checkered finish to take the Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500 Sunday at Pocono Raceway. Pole-sitter Kyle Busch finished second and Tony Stewart was third.
While Hamlin was on his way to the finish line, an eight-car crash on the last lap brought a mangled, messy finish to a race that had been clean for most of the day.
2009 Pocono 500 Race Winner: Tony Stewart
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