Pocono Raceway

Location	Long Pond, Pennsylvania
Track length	2.5 miles (4 kilometres)
Track shape	Triangle
Banking	Turn 1 - 14° Turn 2 - 8° Turn 3 - 6°
Major events	NASCAR Nextel Cup
Capacity	76,812
Address	P.O. Box 500, Long Pond, PA 18334
Owner	Pocono International Raceway

Pocono Raceway is a superspeedway located in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania at Long Pond; it is the site of two annual NASCAR Nextel Cup races held just a few weeks apart in June and July. Long Pond, Pennsylvania is a location in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, a part of the Appalachian Mountains. ... Official language(s) None Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 33rd 119,283 km² 255 km 455 km 2. ... Image File history File links Pocono Raceway Logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A mile is a unit of distance (or, in physics terminology, length) currently defined as 5,280 feet, 1,760 yards, or 63,360 inches. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... NASCAR Nextel Cup logo The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series is NASCARs top racing series. ... In North American motorsports, a Superspeedway is a race track over one mile (1. ... The Poconos, or the Pocono Mountains region, is a mountainous region of about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km²) located in northeastern Pennsylvania, approximately 30 miles north of Allentown. ... Official language(s) None Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 33rd 119,283 km² 255 km 455 km 2. ... Long Pond, Pennsylvania is a location in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, a part of the Appalachian Mountains. ... The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ... NASCAR Nextel Cup logo The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series is NASCARs top racing series. ... Look up June in Wiktionary, the free dictionary June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with a length of 30 days The month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera. ... Look up July in Wiktionary, the free dictionary July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...

Pocono Raceway has a unique design; it could be said to be a tri-oval, but the turns are much more severe than those of a more typical tri-oval such as Daytona and the track is really nearly a triangle; they have been likened somewhat to the hairpin-style turns of road courses. An additional complication is that none of the three turns is identical, nor are any of the three straightaways identical in length. Finally, the banking of each turn is considerably less than on many other long ovals. Although the track is very long (2.5 miles) the severe nature of the turns tends to make the overall speeds much lower than at other tracks of similar lengths; restrictor plates are not needed here. A tri-oval is a shape which dervies its name from the two other shapes it most resembles, a triangle and an oval. ... Daytona International Speedway is a superspeedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. ... A triangle is one of the basic shapes of geometry: a two-dimensional figure with three vertices and three sides which are straight line segments. ... Artist rendering of a restrictor plate Restrictor plates are devices installed between the carburetor and intake manifold that restrict the amount of air and fuel entering the engines combustion chamber. ...

The odd design makes the setup of the car and the crews' ability to make chassis adjustments even more crucial here than at many other tracks; often it is the difference between a winning performance and near-disaster. Drivers tend to either love the track or hate it, largely depending on how well it suits their driving style and their crews' abilities.

Many fans contend that the 500-mile races at Pocono take too long, and that they would like to see them shortened to 400 miles. Some fans wouldn't mind seeing the track disappear from the schedule altogether, or at least reduced to one race. Others have called for a Busch Series or Craftsman Truck Series race to be held at Pocono; it is one of only two Nextel Cup oval tracks (along with Indianapolis Motor Speedway) that is not on either the Busch or Craftsman Truck schedule (although there are ARCA races at Pocono). NASCAR Busch Series logo The Busch Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by NASCAR. It is NASCARs second division (often compared to Triple-A baseball), and is a proving ground for drivers who wish to step up to the organizations top level, the Nextel... NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series logo The Craftsman Truck Series is a popular NASCAR racing series that features modified pickup trucks. ... Indianapolis Motor Speedway Wing and Wheel Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana (a separate city completely surrounded by Indianapolis) in the United States, is the second-oldest surviving automobile racing track in the world (after the Milwaukee Mile), having existed since 1909. ... Arsk (Tatar: Ar a //; Russian: Арск /arsk/) is a town in northern-eastern Tatarstan, Russia. ...

Pocono is one of a very few NASCAR tracks not owned by either Speedway Motorsports or International Speedway Corporation, the dominant track owners in NASCAR. It is owned by the Mattioli family, which also owns short tracks in South Boston, Virginia, and administers the Music City Motorplex at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds in Nashville. Speedway Motorsports Incorporated (NYSE: TRK) often called simply SMI is a stock corporation whose primary business is the ownership and management of race tracks on the NASCAR Nextel Cup series and other race series. ... International Speedway Corporation (NYSE: ISCA) is a corporation whose primary business is the ownership and management of NASCAR race tracks. ...

See also: List of NASCAR race tracks The following is a list of race tracks used by NASCAR as part of its Nextel Cup Series, Busch Series, and/or Craftsman Truck Series. ...

Current Races

• NASCAR Nextel Cup - Pocono 500
• NASCAR Nextel Cup - Pennsylvania 500

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Records

• NASCAR Qualifying: Tony Stewart 277.436 km/h (172.391 mph), 2000
• NASCAR Race: Rusty Wallace, 233.181 km/h (144.892 mph), July 21, 1996

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External links

• Pocono Raceway Official Site
• Pocono Raceway Page on NASCAR.com

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