Multi-Truck Qualifying Procedure Planned For Pocono

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NASCAR announced Wednesday evening that it will revise the qualifying procedure for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series’ inaugural Pocono Mountains 125 at Pocono Raceway on Saturday, July 31, with a multi-truck session on the 2.5-mile track.

The order in which trucks will qualify for the 36 available positions will be based on their practice speeds from final practice on Friday, July 30. Times will be inverted, allowing the slowest truck in practice to be the first out in qualifying on Saturday morning, with the fastest truck going out last. Trucks will be released from pit road in approximately 25-second increments.

Two laps of qualifying will be allowed with the fastest lap counting. Once a truck comes onto pit road its respective qualifying lap is complete. No drafting will be permitted.

“The distance and uniqueness of Pocono afforded us the opportunity to implement this style of qualifying for this event,” said NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Director Wayne Auton. “SPEED is excited about the format and we believe the fans, drivers and viewing audience will embrace it, too.”
 
Some of the short track series on dirt have been doing a similar procedure this year. It's great. It really speeds up the program.
 
they've been doing this for nationwide races on road courses
 
Why now, and why so sudden? Is this a trial of something they may want to make a full switch to later on? I guess it would make the process at least a little more interesting with the fastest going out together at the end.
 
Jameswnh said:
Why now, and why so sudden? Is this a trial of something they may want to make a full switch to later on? I guess it would make the process at least a little more interesting with the fastest going out together at the end.
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First time @ Pocono for the trucks. It'll probably be something that they'll do there from now on but it probably couldn't work at most smaller tracks. Personally, I don't know why it would make it any more exciting. You'll probably end up with about four trucks on the track at the same time separated by a wide, wide margin. It sounds to me like it'll just make the qualifying not take as long.
 
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