2018 Pocono 400 - Pre-Race Thread

Ryan Blaney up at the top of the board at Pocono
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4 in the top 12 and yeah right below the cutoff are Larson. Johnson, Byron and Bowman. 13-16th. Larson and Byron had to run extra laps also.
 
StandOnIt said:
4 in the top 12 and yeah right below the cutoff are Larson. Johnson, Byron and Bowman. 13-16th. Larson and Byron had to run extra laps also.
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It's better than they've been running as a whole.
 
I just received this email. :D

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We have looked at multiple trusted weather sites, including AccuWeather, and Sunday's forecast continues to improve. AccuWeather currently says there is an 80% chance of NO (that's right, NO) inclement weather for the Pocono 400!
 
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I just received this email. :D

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We have looked at multiple trusted weather sites, including AccuWeather, and Sunday's forecast continues to improve. AccuWeather currently says there is an 80% chance of NO (that's right, NO) inclement weather for the Pocono 400!
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Monsoon confirmed for Sunday.
 
I've been to 11 Pocono races, 9 of them have had rain. I was at the 2002 marathon with Park and Dale Jr and then rain 25 laps later
 
Probably going to catch hell from the Busch people, he doesn't have the little Busch banner thing either. :D
 
Larsonfan1995 said:
I've been to 11 Pocono races, 9 of them have had rain. I was at the 2002 marathon with Park and Dale Jr and then rain 25 laps later
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That was a looong day!! The saving grace was the fact that my father was a huge Ellliott fan so it made the 7 hour race worth it. I'm pretty sure by the time we got out of the parking lot it was after 10 pm.

I've been going to Pocono for 30 years. Weather is usually more of an issue for the July race but the June event has also had its share of rain drops over the years....
 
The 3 screwed Larson’s last crack at the top 12 today in the tunnel turn, but hey atleast the 12 car has the pole!
 
Nearly 30 years ago (crazy how time flies) Bobby Allison's career came to an end on the 1st lap of the Miller Genuine Draft 500 at Pocono. While I remember some nasty driver side licks in the years that followed, I don't recall anything as bad as what happened to Allison's roll cage.



 
StandOnIt said:
I remember this one 12 years later with more safety built into the cars thankfully or this one could have killed somebody.. Sadler took a huge hit. Tore the engine out of the car.
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That was actually 22 years later :D

That was still at time when track's inside walls still had weird/bad angles. Gordon took a huge hit at Vegas and Jeff Fuller crushing the inside wall at Kentucky.
 
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Hell it was just last year Jimmie had that nasty failure down in Turn 1. Pocono has more than its fair share of bad ones.
 
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#1 is worthy as the Allison crash is an all timer but the Sacks/Speed crash from 1989 should be #2. To this day, that's one of the hardest hits I've ever seen. If Pocono had concrete walls at the time instead of steel boiler plates it would have been fatal imo. You basically have two cars going head on into the wall at a 190+. The real speed shot at the 2 minute mark is incredible...

 
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KodiakRusty89 said:
#1 is worthy as the Allison crash is an all timer but the Sacks/Speed crash from 1989 should be #2. To this day, that's one of the hardest hits I've ever seen. If Pocono had concrete walls at the time instead of steel boiler plates it would have been fatal imo. You basically have two cars going head on into the wall at a 190+. The real speed shot at the 2 minute mark is incredible...

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Yeah - wow
 
KodiakRusty89 said:
#1 is worthy as the Allison crash is an all timer but the Sacks/Speed crash from 1989 should be #2. To this day, that's one of the hardest hits I've ever seen. If Pocono had concrete walls at the time instead of steel boiler plates it would have been fatal imo. You basically have two cars going head on into the wall at a 190+. The real speed shot at the 2 minute mark is incredible...

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Don't think I'd ever seen that before. That was nasty
 
Regarding Pocono crashes...I've seen footage on Youtube of a nasty crash coming off of turn 2 in the 80s. Can't remember the drivers involved but I've been looking for it with no luck. Anyone got some ideas on who/what race?
 
TexasRaceLady said:
Beautiful lap by Blaney in Round 3 --- pole 50.87
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Accelerate to 208 mph, then *hard* braking down to ~148 for turn 1, then feather the throttle past the apex, and stand on the gas as soon as possible. Braking into a high speed sweeper is one of the most difficult, most skill-intensive things in all of motor racing. By comparison, braking into a slow hairpin is so much easier, so much greater margin for variance, although it does look more spectacular on TV. Pocono is just awesome. I can hardly believe that some people want to replace all that with droning around WFO flat footed the whole lap. SMH.
 
Speedbowl14 said:
Regarding Pocono crashes...I've seen footage on Youtube of a nasty crash coming off of turn 2 in the 80s. Can't remember the drivers involved but I've been looking for it with no luck. Anyone got some ideas on who/what race?
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I think that might have been 1986 where Neil Bonnett was involved in a multi car wreck. Bonnett's car ended slamming the inside wall coming out of 2 and flipped over. I believe he was injured in the wreck. I'm pretty sure that's the same race Tim Richmond drove backwards into the pits due to a transmission issue. He would end up winning the race.

 
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