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Track Details

Completed : 1968
Distance : 2.5 miles
Shape : Tri-oval
Banking : 14° Turn 1
8° Turn 2
6° Turn 3
2° straights
Frontstretch : 3,740 feet
Backstretch : 3,055 feet
Shortstretch : 1,780
Seating : 76,812

Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa., will host NASCAR Sprint Cup Races for the 32-straight year in 2011. Built in 1968 anf having the first Nascar Race in 1974. It plays host to not only the Pocono 500, but as well the Pennsylvania 500. For two short months, Pocono Raceway makes the NASCAR world stand up and pay attention.

The 2.5 mile tri-oval track at Long Pond is as unique of a venue as it gets on the Sprint Cup Series. The triangle-shaped track has three different corner lenghts and bankings making it very difficult to set up a car and to frive well. And with the longest straightaway on the schedule, the Pocono 500 is sure to bring plenty of lead changes.

Pocono Raceway is unlike any other track on the NASCAR circuit. Its triangular shape (think clothes hanger) provides a unique challenge for competitors. Each turn has a different degree of banking and different radius while each of the three straights is a different length.

Despite its size (2½ miles), it doesn't carry the speeds of Daytona or Talladega because it is very flat. Drivers do approach 200 mph heading into Turn One, however. Kasey Kahne holds the track qualifying record with a speed of 172.533 mph.

On several times the track came to the verge of bankrupt, D. Joseph Mattioli was ready to sell the track, but he got some good advise and support from Bill France Sr.. He convinced him of to stick to it. The original track had numerous building mistakes made during 25 years. In 1990, slowly they began to rebuilt Pocono Raceway, during ten years the Mattioli family rebuilt and changed the entire facility. Today it is one of the most friendly fan tracks of the NASCAR cuircut. The Mattioli family said that they do not pretend to become the most famous or biggest track in the world, they just want it to be the Prettiest, Friendliest, and Cleanest track in the world.

2011 Pocono 500 Schedule

Friday June 10, 2011

6:00am Parking Lots Open
8:00am Grandstand Admission Gates Open
10:00am – 11:50am ARCA Final Practice
12:30pm – 1:55pm NSCS Practice
2:05 pm ARCA Qualifying (All Positions) Impound
3:30pm – 5:00pm NSCS Final Practice

Saturday June 11, 2011

6:00am Parking Lots Open
8:00am Grandstand Admission Gates Open
11:10am NSCS Qualifying, order determined by practice speeds
12:30pm ARCA Driver Introductions
1:00pm Pocono 200 ARCA Racing Series Presented by Menards

Sunday June 12, 2011

5:00am Parking Lots Open
8:00am Grandstand Admission Gates Open
9:00am Clubs & Suites Open
12:00pm Pre-Race Pit Pass Access Ends
12:00pm Salute to the Armed Services Pre-Race Festivities Begin
12:30pm Sprint Cup Series Driver Introductions
1:00pm Pocono 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race

Track Records

Track Record, One Lap 172.553 by Kasey Kahne
2004 POCONO 500 Qualifying

Track Record, 500 Miles 144.892 mph by Rusty Wallace
1996 PENNSYLVANIA 500

Fastest Starting Field Average 170.284 mph
2000 PENNSYLVANIA 500

Fewest Caution Flags, Event 1
1978 PENNSYLVANIA 500

Most Caution Flags, Event 13
1990 POCONO 500

2011Pocono 500 Results

2010 Pocono 500 Results

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