2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Round 14: Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500, Pocono Raceway

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the "summer" racing season is upon us. we head north to the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania.

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1st Pratice Friday at Noon and two more practices Saturday at 10 & 11 (All EST)
Q-ing Friday, 330 pm EST
Green Flag 1:16pm EST Sunday

TV coverage moves to TNT, with Adam Alexander, Wally and Kyle Petty. first race ought to be a welcome relief from the FOX crew, but that relief won't last. what's wrong with just two guys in the booth?!

there is a chance of rain from now through the weekend.

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Courtesy of Jayski:

2010 Sprint Cup Driver Championship Points Standings:
[after Charlotte, race 13 of 36]:
rank, car#, driver, points, behind
1) #29-Kevin Harvick [1 win], 1898
2) #18-Kyle Busch [2 wins], 1869, -29
3) #17-Matt Kenseth, 1781, -117
4) #24-Jeff Gordon, 1760, -138
5) #11-Denny Hamlin [3 wins], 1732, -166
6) #2-Kurt Busch [2 wins], 1726, -172
7) #48-Jimmie Johnson [3 wins], 1694, -204
8) #31-Jeff Burton, 1657, -241
9) #16-Greg Biffle, 1648, -250
10) #5-Mark Martin, 1635, -263
11) #99-Carl Edwards, 1603, -296
12) #39-Ryan Newman [1 win], 1547, -351
Chase for the Sprint Cup - Contenders:
13) #33-Clint Bowyer, 1543, 4 points out of the chase
14) #56-Martin Truex Jr., 1533, -14
15) #1-Jamie McMurray, 1521, -26
16) #14-Tony Stewart, 1520, -27
2009 Chase Drivers not in top 16
20) #42-Juan Montoya, 1371, -176
21) #9-Kasey Kahne, 1364, -183
27) #83-Brian Vickers, 1158, -389 [out with illness]

[Dutton]

As a Truex Jr fan, I am not sure I have ever had it so good.

In touching distance of the the chase with a good few rounds down, just joined MWR, but yet I am disappointed.

The Chase is coming. I pray, at least.

[MJ_N_09]

Musgrave to sub for Robby; new sponsor: 2005 Triuck Series champ and former Sprint Cup Series driver, Ted Musgrave is scheduled to practice and qualify the #7 Speed Factory Toyota of Robby Gordon Motorsports at Pocono Raceway on Friday and Saturday [June 5-6]. Robby Gordon will be running his SCORE Trophy Trucks in Baja Friday and Saturday but plans to return to run the car in the race on Sunday. Robby Gordon's Speed Factory is a web based reality show that features the inside look at Robby Gordon Motorsports and it's day-to-day operations and will be featured on the #7 Toyota at Pocono.(Planet Robby)(6-2-2010)

[JHamilton]

They don't shift anymore do they?

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Originally Posted by JHamilton

They don't shift anymore do they?

nope...nascar "banned" it for whatever reason with requiring certain gear ratios at Pocono, something that only the likes Larry Mac and James May would excited about.

was it Tim Richmond or Neil Bonnet that first figured that out? hmmm....

[JHamilton]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

nope...nascar "banned" it for whatever reason with requiring certain gear ratios at Pocono, something that only the likes Larry Mac and James May would excited about.

was it Tim Richmond or Neil Bonnet that first figured that out? hmmm....

Lame.

Tim Richmond was the first to do it, but who figured it out....

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Originally Posted by JHamilton

Tim Richmond was the first to do it, but who figured it out....

well, he won there in Raymond Beadle's #27 Pontiac (later to be the car/team for which Rusty Wallace won his championship) and the #25 Hendrick Chevy crew chiefed by Harry Hyde.

could be either one but i'd put my money is on Harry.

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they are about to get q-ing underway...

skies are clear, for now...just saw a forecast for 70% chance if T-storms on raceday.

Practice one had Jimmie J, John Paul, DenKNEE, Junior and the 'dinger at the top of the charts.

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Kyle Busch grabbed the pole with 169.485 and Clint Bowyer is on the outside front row.

Junior, Kurt Busch, Hamlin, Stewart, JPM, Kahne, Newman and Gordon round out the top 10 starters.

FULL LINEUP

btw:
14) Mark Martin
16) Ambrose
20) Mad Max
26) Jimmie J
27) Truex

[MJ_N_09]

It was just a matter of time. The 7 missed a race.

[St00ge]

I expected a little better pace out of the #47 in the sessions as he normally runs quiet well here, hopefully they have a good race package

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LONG POND PA RADAR

looking like we could have a short race or a delayed one...what was a 70% chance of t-storms is now up to 90%.

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rain delays start...looks like it should move through and be clear behind for the rest of the day.

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after nearly two hours of a rain delay....GREEN FLAG!

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another late caution, due to a get together between Harvick and Logano (which is another story altogether), gives us a G/W/C finish.

Denny Hamlin gets yet another win at Pocono. Kyle makes it a JGR 1-2.

RESULTS

[Matt]

I thought Kasey was gonna end up in the woods.

That straight reminds me a lot of Thompson Motor Speedway, cept Thompson doesn't have a fence in the corner at the wall, it's about 15 feet back.

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Harvick and Logano incident and interviews

as for the incident, if it wasn't less than 2 laps to go, Harvick should have cut him some slack. i can't recall them, but apparently this is not the first time that these two have tangled. hard to tell. just one of them racin deals. impressive slide by Joey, tho!!

doesn't show it in this video, but Joey's dad (from what gathered from announcers) can be seen encouraging Joey to go let Harvick know of his displeasure. IMO, i don't think Harvick needs to hide behind his crew from a skinny 20 year old kid. maybe he was taking the hide road, or was just being "cool". you know, points leaders don't want to do anything "stupid".

regardless, Joey saying that his "wife wears the fire suit in the family and tells him what to do."
classic.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

regardless, Joey saying that his "wife wears the fire suit in the family and tells him what to do."
classic.

I was literally lmao'ing at that.

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Originally Posted by Matt

I thought Kasey was gonna end up in the woods.

that was scary. i've never seen a car actually touch the trees outside the wall on that straight.

the worst part about the wreck was Ambrose going head first into the backfilled armco barrier. when steve park and dale jr barreled into a few years back, they hit a soft wall on a straight. Pocono has had it's fair share of nasty wrecks on the straights, probably more than other tracks, but when will we see soft walls everywhere in nascar? wait...that answer is obvious.

[MJ_N_09]

I was out with family, so I didn't get to see the race. I've heard what happened at the end, and now my hatred for Harvick is through the roof. What a slimeball and coward, honestly.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by MJ_N_09

I was out with family, so I didn't get to see the race. I've heard what happened at the end, and now my hatred for Harvick is through the roof. What a slimeball and coward, honestly.

Except you heard wrong, cause Joey came down on him.

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while joey did come down on harvick, he is still a coward, and somewhat of a phallus. his wife looks good in a fire suit, tho.

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from NASCAR.com

neither driver will receive any penalty, but Joey's dad had a finger shaken at him:

Robin Pemberton had a short meeting with Logano's father, Tom, who was also involved in the incident on pit road. "Mr. Logano, he did what he could do to restrain himself," Darby said. "At the last, he wound up interfering with the television broadcasters and that's not the right thing to do. And that's all that was, to explain to him, 'Look, you've got to stand back. You've got to let Joey be a race car driver. You have to have enough faith in the Gibbs team, Greg Zipadelli and all the other crew members to let them compete as a team."

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Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

while joey did come down on harvick, he is still a coward, and somewhat of a phallus.

hmmmm the dirty minds could have a field day with that one...

on the footage you couldn't really see how Ambrose ended up where he did, all I saw was him exiting onto the grass at a reduced speed. Hope all is well and he hasn't done himself a mischief prior to Sonoma