Coming off a strong top-five finish in Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600, Roush Fenway Racing has announced a partnership with NOS Energy, that will see the High Performance Energy Drink serve as a primary partner with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and the No. 17 NASCAR Cup team, as well as a season long associate. The No. 17 NOS Energy Ford will make its debut on June 9 at Michigan.
Pocono Preview: The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series will be heading to the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania for a 400-mile event at Pocono Raceway on Sunday, June 2. With four wins to his name at Pocono, Hamlin and the #11FedEx team will be seeking a fifth victory, making it the team’s third win of the 2019 Cup Series.
Annett has had much success on tracks measuring 2.5 miles or more this season, winning at Daytona International Speedway in February and earning the pole at Talladega Superspeedway.
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"We’re heading to Pocono Raceway this weekend – one of my favorites. We’re coming off a really strong run at Charlotte Motor Speedway where we got our first Top-5 for the No. 11 team. We’ve had a really strong mile-and-a-half program. Going to Pocono, one of my best tracks, I am really excited."
Richard Childress Racing at Pocono Raceway ... In 161 starts at Pocono Raceway, RCR team owner Richard Childress has two wins, both with Dale Earnhardt, who won on July 19, 1987 and July 18, 1993.
Martin Truex, Jr. grabbed his third win of the season in a race that saw eleven different drivers lead laps and one Toyota after another blow right front tires, including Truex, himself.
Newman will make his 35th Cup start at the 2.5-mile Pocono Raceway this weekend. In 34 prior events, Newman has 15 top-10s, nine top fives and one win at ‘The Tricky Triangle.’
In today’s motorsports landscape, it’s not often that a driver makes it to the upper echelon of the sport without a significant investment from family or some other benefactor. Funding to race is important, and in some cases, it’s just as important as the talent to race.
John Hunter Nemechek and GMS Racing will utilize chassis no. 224 this weekend at Pocono Raceway. This chassis has been ran twice this season by Nemechek. Once at Atlanta Motor Speedway (start: 10th/finish:) and most recently at Auto Club Speedway (start:/finish:).
Matt Tifft is helping NASCAR fans nationwide gear up for summer this weekend at Pocono Raceway. The Front Row Motorsports (FRM) driver will sport a new paint scheme at the Long Pond, Pa. racetrack featuring a discount code for product from primary sponsor Surface Sunscreen. Fans can visit surfacecorp.com and enter the code "Tifft36" to receive 36% off their purchase.